Fundamentals of daylight food photography - Adrian Mueller
Topic: Professional approach to daylight food and drinks photography
Location: Restaurant to be announced
Language: English
Duration: 3 hours
Sessions: Friday 23 Oct 14-17h / Saturday 24 Oct 14-17h
Educational objective: Learn how to use daylight as the primary light source
Required level: Basic photography knowledge
Equipment: No equipment needed, but you can bring your own camera if you want to take pictures, or a USB stick to use our camera and download your pictures
About the workshop
Using only natural daylight in combination with different light shaping tools, this course will demonstrate a professional approach to daylight food & drinks photography, and improve a participant’s repertoire of creating natural looking food images without strobes.
Participants will learn how to correctly set up when using daylight, adapting to the direction, angle and quality of light and how to enhance natural light using light shaping tools. They will also learn about light diffusion, fill light, contrast control, and how to create highlights, and get some tips on composition, negative space, framing, camera angles, and aperture and depth of the field. Food styling and daylight shooting tips for plated food and drinks (hot liquids and cold liquids) will also be given. Finally, participants will also learn about shooting in layers and combining multiple exposures in Photoshop, and using post-production tools in subtle ways to enhance the look of the image.
About Adrian
Adrian grew up in Lucerne, Switzerland and initially studied architectural engineering. He was drawn to photography because of the similarities in both fields: clean lines, concise structures and how light reflects off surfaces. Time in Japan further influenced his creative approach through the concepts of craftsmanship, simplicity and reducing everything to its essence. In contrast to his precise still life + liquids work, Adrian's aim with his food and location photography is to create images that connect with a viewer's personal memories. He hopes that someone looking at his photographs will be moved to pause and remember a certain smell, taste or experience.
He lives in New York with his wife and son.
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