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Food Photography & Lighting: A Commercial Photographer’s Guide to Creating Irresistible Images
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Food Photography & Lighting: A Commercial Photographer’s Guide to Creating Irresistible Images

by Teri Campbell
September 2012
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
8h 58m
English
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Shrimp Creole, Po-Boys, and Beignets

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Shrimp creole, shot on location at the Palace Café in New Orleans.ISO 100, 1/5 sec, f/5, 50mm lens on Canon DSLRFood Stylist: Jacqueline Buckner

Assignment One: The Big Easy

It began with a call from the art buyer. Her creative director had seen our ad in the Workbook and she wanted us to bid on a project for the New Orleans Tourism Board. The assignment was to capture images of classic New Orleans dishes—shrimp creole, po-boy sandwiches, and beignets. Normally I prefer to work in my studio with all the control that it offers, but as we talked it just seemed to make sense for us to shoot on location.

Even though ...

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