Sometimes we don’t get to work with our lovely little setup in our home or studio for food photography. Sometimes we walk in to a job not knowing what to expect, and hoping that the gear you have crammed in to your car is going to be what is needed to do it right.

I figured it might be rather interesting to do a post on food photography from a slightly different perspective - that is on location shooting.

The interest here is working with the unknown. Adapting your regularly successful food photography setup to work in a new location with different lighting and space requirements. This is a useful exercise even if you never plan to shoot anywhere else but your home/studio.

Click to read this post on food photography advice and tips

On one rather cold and sunny morning in December I walked into one of Seattle’s best restaurants carrying my camera bag, tripod and laptop. Walking through the door the first thing that struck me was just how darn packed the place was. Packed with food bloggers and photographers.

We were all there for one thing - the same thing. A food photography class from Penny De Los Santos.

To call Penny a food photographer is like calling the Pope a churchgoer. She has shot for National Geographic, Saveur magazine, Time magazine, Newsweek, and most likely a whole heck of a lot more. Her portfolio covers food, travel, landscapes - and now she is teaching a food photography workshop right here in lovely little Seattle.

Click to see more, and food photography tips from Penny De Los Santos

I don’t really do cookbook reviews on my blog. I am bad at writing them, and they just seem to come across as a little bit cheesy and at worst like I was paid to write them. That certainly isn’t this lanky Englishman’s cup of tea. Not one bit.

This is different though. “How so?” you might ask..

I took some of the photo’s for Jaden’s book for one.

This isn’t really a review of the book.. goto amazon for that…

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