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Whether you're an aspiring food stylist or photographer, or want to give your food blog a professional look, this intensive masterclass will transform your skills and give you a better understanding of this growth industry. You'll learn to satisfy the different demands of editorial and commercial food photography, from what makes a great magazine cover to how to create a powerful advertising image.
Led by Guardian Cook photographer Jill Mead and food stylist Rosie Reynolds, the course offers practical advice for food photography's most important shots, including instructional prep series and showstopping hero shots. The course includes a test shoot, enabling you to put what you've learned about food styling and photography into practice.
The course offers technical tuition in getting the right lighting, lens and camera, as well insider tips on how to make good food look better. In addition, you'll learn how to find the right location to bring out the best in your shots. The event is also an excellent primer in breaking into the industry, including advice on how to work to a brief and a breakdown of who does what on a food shoot – and how to collaborate with them to ensure a successful result.
This course is for you if...
- You run or contribute to a food blog or website and want to make it look more professional
- You're a budding food stylist or photographer and want a grounding in the essentials of the job
- You're a restaurateur who wants to take tempting pictures to illustrate your menu or PR materials
Course description
This course combines classroom tuition in food styling and photography with a practical workshop in which attendees will style and shoot a sample arrangement. Attendees will leave the course with a solid knowledge of the technical and creative priorities of food photography.
- How to shoot on location (or borrow a photogenic kitchen)
- Working with stylists, props and home economists
- A practical guide to the right lights, lens and camera
- Lighting, angles, composition, framing and cropping images
- Food modelling for preparation and hero shots, and how to make real food look better
- How to analyse food colour, texture and characteristics
- How food reacts to the environment and how to control it
- What makes a strong image: the differing demands of editorial and commercial food photography
- Working to a food shoot brief
- How to develop your food styling skills
- How to get into food styling: helpful shortcuts and qualifications
PLEASE NOTE: Attendees should bring along their own DSLR camera and be comfortable using it. They are also advised to bring along a personal laptop to upload their photographs. No software is necessary, just the means to upload and view photographs. A house computer will also be available during the course, as well spare card readers and plug sockets to charge laptops.
Tutor profiles
Rosie Reynolds is a freelance food stylist, recipe writer and developer. After completing a diploma at Leiths School of Food and Wine in 2010, she started working for BBC Good Food and Olive magazine. More recently, Rosie has worked on book projects with Glynn Purnell, from Great British Menu, Franco Manca and Bill Granger, and is a regular contributor to Guardian Cook. Rosie's passion is for fuss-free, tasty food, prepared and shared with love. She enjoys nothing more than discovering new flavour combinations, drawing influences from all over the world, to create delicious recipes for home cooks.
Jill Mead is a photographer for the Guardian and Observer who regularly contributes to the Guardian's Cook section. In addition, she has been commissioned to illustrate numerous publications including three books with Gordon Ramsay and more recently the Mumsnet family cookbook.
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Details
Date: Sunday 22 March 2015
Times: 10am-4pm. Check-in begins 30 minutes before the start time.
Location: The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU
Price: £249 (includes VAT, booking fee, lunch and refreshments)
Event capacity: 16
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Returns policy
Tickets may be refunded if you contact us at least 14 days before the course start date. Please see our terms and conditions for more information on our refund policy.
