Minted Sangria Recipe from our Food Photography , Food Styling Workshop
Update: we have added new dates for our workshops! If you’re interested, you can sign up here.
It’s funny how this recipe came to mind. We were in teaching our food photography/food styling workshop this weekend and the students were tackling the subject of photographing drinks. Drinks can often be challenging, especially when it comes to reflections, styling drinks and how to add interest to simple liquids. Diane was quickly setting up to style a drink scene for the students to practice photographing and someone yelled out “Sangria”. Yes! the thought of having a sangria sounded so perfect at the time too. But the visual thoughts of styling chunks of fresh fruit in a fizzy drink was the perfect subject for the scene.
In about 4 minutes, a sangria set was made and propped ready for the waiting cameras and photographers.
After going home and looking at the image again, it made us thirsty just looking at the photo, so we decided to re-create the exact same looking drink with a recipe to share with you all! Enjoy!
This workshop at our studio this weekend was so much fun and the amazing gathering of students from around the country blew us away. We had students come from Seattle, San Francisco, Las Vegas, San Diego and of course, our beloved local people too. What made this gathering so amazing was all the stories we shared with one another about our family heritage, food stories and personal family recipes.
So many of us were from different parts of the world and though we all grew up with different family food traditions, we all shared so many things in common. The laughing didn’t stop. And neither did the food, we ate and photographed till we dropped.
This workshop was sold out, but we added new dates and we still have a few spots left. Register for classes here. Thank you to those who came and look forward to meeting all new students.
-diane and todd
Scenes from a busy weekend of food photography!
Todd & Diane live tethered shooting & styling, talking about light & composition
Kathy setting up in the gorgeous light
Hands on food styling: working together to compose pretty food
everyone styled multiple dishes & photographed their final hero plates
Styling soups, sandwiches, salads, meats, drinks, pastas and more!
from conception to final shot!
Taleene photographing her beautiful styled sandwich
Painting surfaces for food shots!
the ideas and creativity students painted for textures was amazing!
both plenty of DSLR and iPhone shots were happening
group shot of the small, intimate class! Thanks to all students for attending. Please keep in touch! xoxo
Tropical Sangria Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 ounces (60ml) White Wine (Sauvignon blanc, pinot grigio, or other crisp white)
- 1 ounce (30ml) light Rum , or to taste
- 1/2 ounce (15ml) fresh Lime Juice
- 1/2 teaspoon (3ml) Sugar
- 1 Tablespoon (15ml) diced Apples
- 1 Tablespoon (15ml) diced Mango
- 2 lrg Mint leaves , chopped
- 2 ounces (60ml) Club Soda
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients except club soda and mix until sugar is completely dissolved.
- When ready to serve, pour over ice and finish with club soda.
Seems like very good workshop! I wish I can meet you again.-)) Nice to see you have many interesting projects.
Yes, please!! Going to try the recipe out this Saturday. Thanks! And your photography is amazing.
Thank you so much Diane & Todd for a fabulous weekend workshop of food styling and photography. What a great team you two are, and wow, do you guys serve up some yummy food too! I left completely energized by all the valuable knowledge that you graciously shared with us. Your passion for what you do is completely inspiring, and I am excited to start practicing everything I learned.
Thank you both so much for an amazing 2 days! I learned so much and met the nicest people. Your passion for cooking, styling and photographing beautiful food in infectious! I hope to play in the studio with you both again soon.
Looks like you had a great time. Beautiful photo of the sangria! Hope I can take a class in the future. I’m at IACP in New York! Will check out your schedule so I can learn to shoot. Love those painted surfaces. Really need to learn that. Hugs to you both!
Oh how I wish I could get to one of your workshops ๐
What a creative and hands-on workshop!!! I hope to attend someday ๐
That sangria had me drooling!!
How fun! Wish I could make it to one of these workshops. I need to spend a weekend making some new surfaces. How big are those boards?
Thanks!
Brandon- These were 8×4 boards that were cut down into 6 pieces. But sometimes we’ll cut them larger for larger food scenes.
Wow!! Looks like such a great time + a super talented bunch of people.
I’ve been visiting your site for a while, and it really inspires me, as well as making me hungry ๐ Thank you for sharing all your tips! I’m beginning to overhaul my shots of my ceramic work and you are definitely giving me lots of food for thought!
So pretty!
and the food looks really good too
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Looks like a fabulous workshop! Sadly, living in VT doesn’t provide much opportunity for attending workshops like this. If you ever make your way to the East Coast to host one of these, I will gladly be your spokesperson ๐
Your posts always make so happy! They’re so beautiful, both in writing and of course the photos. The workshop looked like so much fun, hopefully I can attend one in the future!
This looks so terrific. It has been wonderful to watch you guys go from a conceptual phase to actually ‘up and running’ phase. So terrific and really proud of you both! (that’s my mom-side coming out)