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On Friday I got up middle of the night and I climbed into the crack of dawn the train to Dusseldorf. The occasion was a food photography workshop with photographers Anne Rogge and Jan Jankovic and food stylist Christoph Maurer, to which the company Kikkoman had invited me and 9 other (food) bloggers in the cooking school Dusseldorf.
After a brief welcome and introductions, it was also going on simultaneously with the theory. ProfiFoto count Jan Jankovic (far right) knack weekend told us the Live View shooting, in which the camera is connected via tethering directly with the notebook. This has the advantage that you can watch on the big screen before the first photo, the photo will look like later, if the picture composition is right, the light is good, the desired elements are sharp, etc. also follow Jan gave us a brief overview of what you need to consider in terms of lighting, camera angles and perspective in food photos. Clear: Daylight is best suited it best photographed knack weekend under a north window.
Together we chose a subsoil in Lehm-/Betonoptik and the dishes on which we wanted knack weekend our "fashion model", a glass noodle knack weekend salad with snow peas, peanuts, knack weekend chili and beef skewers knack weekend photographed. Photographer Anne described the division between Jan and her thus: "He cares about the technique, I That is to me the photo styling, I have to constantly buy crockery and props ....". Insightful knack weekend and nod of approval sigh everyone!
Food Stylist Christopher gave us a tip for the case that the sideboards took a bit longer and the meat looks a bit dry: Easy Brush again with oil, so that it shines and looks nice and fresh in the photo. For professional photo shoots knack weekend so is something the rule, because knack weekend until the photo is setup and the final photo is shot, it takes - if it really runs well and goes fast - easy 1.5 hours. So much time I invested in any of my photos. For me, the photo shoot will take more than 5 minutes, finally I would also like to eat my food still reasonably warm ....
Exciting was also the view of Christoph's food styling suitcases, three of them! In it, he drags to a well equipped kitchen with, as he usually does not know before an order, such as the kitchen is fitted on site. On the other hand, he has his secret weapons knack weekend always there, including water spray, caramel, Bunsen burners and metal bars (for the perfect grill marks on the meat), tweezers, Q-tips, hot air blower, aspirin tablets (for sparkling water) and much more. For me, all these tools do not come into question, as I after the photo still want to eat my food directly. knack weekend
After the lunch break we were allowed to lend a hand. While a photographer Jan besieged with questions knack weekend about photography and image processing, the other laid directly wrong with freestyle cooking. The aim was to create knack weekend photogenic dishes, they wreak appealing and photograph in connection, always under the watchful eyes of photographer Anne Rogge and food stylist Christopher.
Anne and Joanna knack weekend styled by her food without any tricks or aids such as food coloring or similar, just with love and a good sense of a successful image composition - and the result looked great!
The day passed with listening, Contribute, cooking, photography, eating, sharing and great conversations in a flash. And I took of course something like this: The realization that the work of professional photographers can not be compared with how most blog photos knack weekend emerge. The professional photographers have completely different quality demands on their photos, always knack weekend work with a tripod, the best light, control via Live View shooting, even if the last pixel is sharp - and need, of course, correspondingly long for a photo.
The food stylist do everything to make the food looks so fresh and appealing as possible. For the snow peas are then blanched very briefly and then immediately quenched with ice water (so they stay nice and green), sesame seeds distributed with the tweezers, water droplets knack weekend individually knack weekend attached to the pipette, grill marks subsequently burned to the meat, roast chicken nachgebräunt with the heat gun and much more.
Fascinating! But do not worry, I will continue to confine the food as it comes out of the pot or the oven, nice to judge and take pictures as I eat it, too. Since we were bloggers all agree!
And here you see on the group picture again all workshop participants! It was a great group of lovable Kikkoman staff, charming agency knack weekend ladies and love bloggers whose blogs I read for the most part a long time and very happy and like Sophia knack weekend Cucina Piccina scho