December 2012 – the end of January 2013, I’m taking in new food photography clients. If you would like to update your blogs or websites with some brilliant mouth-watering photos of any of your dishes or baked goods give me a call or e-mail me at jeanine@fototails.com. I have some great ways to keep it cost effective for you while getting some fresh new images for your marketing!
Check out these favorites:
AMAZING Spider webs – Check it out at CAKE WHIZ!
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This is so yummy – I just had to share. Check it out at A FOOD CENTRIC LIFE
January 2013
About a year ago we decided that we would do a calendar project to benefit a children. We finally have our first calendar complete. It was our first year – and after all of the work and organizing put into it…. Jenny up and says… “so… are we doing this again next year?” Of course me… “I think so.”…. Jenny “Because if we are, I think I need to start on that NOW.”
Ok… enough said I think with that – it was obviously a huge project and took a ton of people, organizing, prop shopping and construction, photography time, editing time. But in the end – yes, my first thoughts is OF COURSE we will do it again for a 2014 calendar because it was just way too much fun not to.
We had great little subjects who participated.
Then of course we had a few very gracious vendors that supported some of our shoots too.
Anything But Vanilla was amazing with some cupcakes in the “Everything nice” shoot. She makes some of the most amazing flavors of cakes & cupcakes I’ve ever tasted.
Cake Pandemic – Christine Godsey Black 720-235-2008 made us a BUNCH of pies for the Little Jack Horner shoots. They were so yummy, and looked beautiful… that is before the boys dug in and destroyed them upon command!lol
Kimber at Kim’s Designs is my go to tutu vendor. Amazingly creative and custom makes tutus for our shoots. I can’t say enough about her work.
Dizzie Izzie makes amazing pedi-skirts and much more. The kids just love twirling in them!!!
And then my thought catcher & arranger and set designer too: Jenny Bonfiglio
THE STORIES.
PRINCESS & THE FROG
SUGAR & SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE
LITTLE MISS MUFFET
BED IN SUMMER by Robert Louis Stevenson
RAPUNZEL
LITTLE BOY BLUE
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
JACK AND JILL
WYNKEN BLYNKEN & NOD
LITTLE JACK HORNER
For each copy of the 2013 Calendar sold between October 20th, 2012 – February 1st, 2013 a portion of the proceeds will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
PURCHASE YOUR 2013 STORYBOOK CALENDAR BY CLICKING HERE!
Muy Bueno Cookbook – available now at Barnes & Noble bookstores and online at Amazon.com
Food photography is an amazing thing that draws the viewers and makes them say yum… or not. Do any of you have one or more cookbooks sitting on your shelf? Now how many recipes have you actually made that DIDN’T have a corresponding photo?
It’s the law of averages – the more photos that tell the viewer that it looks good to eat – the more likely they will come back to look at your blog, the more likely they will post it on their social media pages, and the more images they see they like in a cookbook… the more likely they will buy it. There are a lot of wonderful chiefs out there, but some of us are just average mom, spouses, or even bachelor(ettes) that really just want to be able to cook a recipe without too much effort and make it look good. Being able to compare what you have prepared from a recipe to a photo in a book can be the pat on the back you need to know you did it right.
I’ve been photographing small products and food for over two decades and how can I help but love it when someone looks at a food photo and you can see them with a slight hunger twinge in their tummy for it.
That being said… it’s time to spruce up your blogs and websites. Why not push your food blog to the next level – and make it look as good as it tastes? Let me help you with your food blogs or cookbooks to be and make people drool. For details please contact me at info@fototails.com for a brochure and options for making your blog pop!
The FEED Zone
CRAVE Denver
MUY BUENO Cookbook
Recipes that feature products from IMUSA and Avocados from Mexico
In this – I speak only for myself, I can’t say that every photographer feels the same; however, after photographing for over two decades it is how I work best.
Let the artist create.
As an artist – inspiration is a beautiful thing. When you schedule a portrait session – tossing out ideas that you like or maybe sending a photo that you adore is a great direction to give a photographer so that we know the style that you like. Brainstorm with your photographer about themes and the things you love best about your child, you as a couple, your wedding so that we get your energy and what makes you excited and happy. But I have to say – my best images and best sessions have been when the client then comes in and says… do what you do best. Personally it opens my mind faster, and allows me to create images that I love and in the end – the result is typically the showcase images you see on the walls or in the albums, or submitted into professional photographic competitions. While a real professional photographer can re-create nearly anything he or she sees – it takes away our art and becomes nothing special to us. I don’t like copying – I get asked a lot to do shots by another and typically nod my head and do a quick shot and then move on to images that are how I see it best. Nobody has the same body type, no child is the exact same, and no image should be copied. When I shoot – I read personalities, most of the time I develop shots in my head based on the subject’s natural expressions or the way they react back to me – and THAT is when you get the best images out of an artist.
So story boards are great for inspiration – but replication to an artist is tying their hands…. and wouldn’t you rather have something completely you and unique anyway?
Jeanine Thurston 