I recently worked with Zena Weeks, Private Chef to Premier League Footballers, to create the photos for her new cook book, Recipes for Performance Sports.
It is always a pleasure to work with chefs and food producers and get the best photographs of their creations. Food photography is about finding the best way to communicate flavours in a visual way, finding the right props and appropriate colours for the background and with a little bit of styling. [NOTE FOR GEORGE: this sentence reads as garbled/incomplete in the original Weebly post, worth rewording before publishing] I love to work with natural light but this is a luxury and in most cases not predictable enough so I do use artificial lighting, but I try to use it in a way that mimics natural light so that it is not at all obvious that the food was not shot next to a window. Here are a few of the shots I took for Zena’s book…
