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7/15/2021

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After light ('cos light always comes first) composition and styling are key to a good photo.
What composition techniques have I used to make this meringue shot appealing?
Can you see the way the meringue nests have been positioned?

They are in LINES

Another technique here is the use of NEGATIVE SPACE -
somewhere in the image there must be a breathing space......
somewhere for the eye to rest. This helps bring focus to the main subject of the frame.
Some negative space is essential for any composition to work.

Finally let's talk about BREAKING PATTERNS
The pattern here is REPETITION
So let's break it by including 2 nests that are plain
This adds INTEREST

I hope you found this post helpful in understanding elements of styling. If you like it, please feel free to comment. I'll be posting more on the creative side of food photography soon.

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A Wedding Breakfast
It was my pleasure to photograph a wedding breakfast created by Colline Watt, owner of Colline's Kitchen recently. With a bubbly and nurturing nature, it's no suprise to me that this mother from Zimbabwe wants to feed us all with delicious, fresh and sustainable food, along with a decadent cake or two, and how typical that, on the first date that weddings were permitted in the UK after lockdown, she got the call and I found her in a pretty garden with spectacular views piling food and flowers on to a table in a high wind, and creating an edible work of art.
Colline's successful cafe business, set in the historic Town Hall in the market town of Newbury has been put on hold since Lockdown in March, but she maintains a service, delivering food as diverse as Afternoon Tea and Mongolian beef stir fry, sourcing fresh ingredients locally. Find her at www.collineskitchen.com

BUNTING
When Jo, owner of The Bunting Basket asked me to photograph her bunting, I read her bio, and discovered how the business began, and how it came to be named The Bunting Basket. After making bunting for a family christening, Jo was innundated with requests for it from her friends and aqaintances, and she soon began to sell it at craft fairs, carrying her stock in a wicker basket. When I read this, I knew a picnic basket had to feature in my photographs. I looked at the fabric designs, and thought about the premise for the business and then began to prepare my shoot. Find her at www.thebuntingbasket.co.uk

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