Cooking, Creating, and Everything in Between
When Life Gives You Lemons When I first started food blogging, I knew nothing about food photography. Not a darned thing. Wait did you say I STILL know nothing about food photography? Aww that’s not nice. Meanie. haha. *throat clearing* …
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Food Styling 101 We have all been there. We hire a babysitter. We dig through the dusty closet to find an actual outfit that has not been tainted with ketchup, baby food, or chewed up baby puffs. We go…
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When I first became interested in food photography, I set out to learn as much as I could about how to create an attractive and appetizing food photo. But one thing always bothered me– um, how do I put this…
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Homemade Food Photography Backgrounds When I first started food blogging, I knew absolutely nothing about food photography. I figured that as long as my recipes were good, the pictures didn’t really matter. But honestly, that’s not true. People eat…
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Um . . . what the heck is a Lowel EGO light? I thought Anton Ego was the guy from Ratatouille that didn’t like food. And that guy certainly didn’t light up anyone’s life. Oh . . . I’m just…
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Taking Christmas Photos A Quick and Easy Guide to Taking your Own Magical Photos in Front of the Christmas Tree Last year I went through the nightmare that seems to be part of every family’s holiday repertoire– “Getting Christmas…
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Understanding Camera ISO What is ISO? How do I use it? How the heck is it relevant to my food photos? Oh, I’m just so glad you asked. For a few weeks we have been working on a…
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All About Aperture Welcome back to our free food photography series! I have enjoyed hearing from all of you about what you’d like to learn, as far as food photography goes. I don’t pretend to be an expert, but I…
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Figuring Out Shutter Speed Welcome back to our food photography series! As always, I love hearing from you and learning what types of things you’d like to learn as you become food photography experts! Last week we started with the…
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Food Photography Basics My food blog recently turned one year old. *Cue the “Happy Birthday” song, and now everyone together . . . “AWWWWWWWW.” OK. Anyhoo . . . I have learned a lot in the past year– especially about…
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