Prom Memories

by White On Rice Couple on February 23, 2010 · 1 comment


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Video – Food Photography w/ On Camera Speedlight

by White On Rice Couple on February 1, 2010 · 40 comments

fried bacon shot at night with speedlight on camera

Adding a few step-by-step pictures of our cooking preparations really help readers visualize the process of the recipe. But at night, it’s almost impossible to get a decent picture of food cooking on the stove top because there just isn’t enough light.

Shooting with speedlights attached to our camera help solve our lighting dilemna and it allows us to get stovetop photographs that are still visually appetizing. Shooting with one speedlight attached to the camera is really simple and only requires one extra piece of lighting equipment.

Our previous post discussing photographing food with speedlights touched upon some basic speedlight tips. We’ll be sharing more later on.

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Online Food Photography Class Giveaway on Sally’s Site

January 30, 2010

Professional photographers Ron Goldman and Kathleen Clemons are having another online course for food photography and they’re giving away a spot for the class! In collaboration with the folks at The Picture Perfect School of Photography, Ron Goldman and Kathleen Clemons , they’re letting one lucky winner take this great food photography course as the prize.

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How we photographed the Edamame Soybean Soup shot

January 24, 2010
edamame soybean soup

We were hungry, really hungry and so were the dogs. So to fend off two hungry dogs and to appease our growling stomachs, we took this shot really quick because sometimes we have the patience to spend too much time on a photo.

Our approach to food photography at home is simple and we don’t like to spend too much time on set up because we don’t want  food blogging interfering with normal, daily life. To be able to blog consistently and still enjoy what we do is crucial. We…

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Club Med Food Blogger Camp

January 10, 2010
club med ixtapa mexico

Hello from Ixtapa, Mexico! It’s Club Med’s first annual Food Blogger Camp week and Ixtapa, Mexico is the chosen locale to host the 6 days of seminar’s and workshops. Meeting and learning from so many new and seasoned food bloggers is inspiring and encouraging in more ways than we ever expected.

In just one full day, we’ve had an amazing session from Michael and Donna Ruhlman and a great afternoon visit to Zihuatanejo market. Plenty of stories and pictures of our week here will be posted beginning tomorrow. We still need to catch up on some much needed sleep…

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On Camera Speedlight Basics- I just need more light! Nothing fancy, just more light!

January 8, 2010
food portrait photography with speedlight tutorials

It is time to focus our tutorials onto lighting and discussing speedlights (or speed lites, small strobes, flash guns, mount on top flashes, eyeball poppers… whatever you like calling them.) Sorry point-and-shooters, unfortunately  a lot of this tutorial won’t be applicable to you unless there is a hot shoe (that cool little flash mount) on your camera.

Let’s start with just using your speedlight mounted on the camera for some simple, basic shots. Slap that bad boy on, point it at your target and fire away.  You now have an amped up version…

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Super Batteries- PowerEx Rechargable Batteries

December 30, 2009
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Anyone who shoots a lot with speedlights know how they eat up batteries. Recently at a DJ event we were shooting, the two of us blew through over 20 AA lithium batteries in one night.  At over $10 a 4 pack, that frickin’ hurts.

However after a recent discovery, our battery woes are over.  Through Joe McNally and his “What’s in the Bag”, we’ve been enlightened to the Powerex 2700 Rechargeable Batteries. These batteries kick some serious speedlight ass.

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Principles of Photography – White Balance

November 28, 2009
What is White Balance Digital Photography

In our Principles of Photography Workshop Series we try our best to share what we were able to teach ourselves about photography, in simple, easy-to-understand concepts. These are just some basics to help you get started, there is much more information to learn beyond these basics. But by understanding the most basic principles of photography then building upon them through practice, practice and more practice, you can capture the type of images that you…

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Principles of Photography-ISO – Controlling camera's light sensitivity

November 22, 2009
What is ISO

In our Principles of Photography Workshop Series we try our best to share what we were able to teach ourselves about photography, in simple, easy-to-understand concepts. These are just some basics to help you get started, there is much more information to learn beyond these basics. But by understanding the most basic principles of photography then building upon them through practice, practice and more practice, you can capture the type of images that you want.

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Principles of Photography- Aperture (Controlling Depth of Field)

October 22, 2009
Explaining Aperture

In our Principles of Photography Workshop Series we try our best to share what we were able to teach ourselves about photography, in simple, easy-to-understand concepts. These are just some basics to help you get started, there is much more information to learn beyond these basics. But by understanding the most basic principles of photography then building upon them through practice, practice and more practice, you can capture the type of images that you want.

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