Working With Editorial Text

Sometimes a shot will receive a text overlay on the photograph rather than in a separate section. This creates more of a challenge when shooting as the food has to be situated accurately before it spoils. The publishers will send over the text example which I then overlay onto the live shot in Capture One Pro software. We then have to style the food around the copy. Despite this being a bit more rigid in terms of creative freedom, I am actually really enjoying photographing food in this way. The shots below were taken for a book project and a magazine.

Berin Made

This year I had the exciting opportunity to shoot a project for stationary company Berin Made. Working with flowers, foliage and confetti to create graphic, unique images to display their fun merchandise. It was an interesting change to work with stationary items rather than food (which I usually shoot). I think the images are as eye catching as Berinmade's products.

Meeting UK barista of the year, Gwilym Davies

Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Gwilym Davies, last year's world and UK barista of the year. We hung out at Whitecross street market where Gwilym used to run a stall. He borrowed his former coffee stand to show us how to make a proper soyaccino with the soy milk he has helped Alpro develop especially for professionals. This was amidst a constant stream of people coming to get their daily coffee and chinwag with the great team producing world class coffees. It was such a great vibe and a really interesting morning learning a great deal about coffee. I also managed to capture this shot of Gwilym, which I can't wait to put up on my website.

Gwilym Davies for Alpro, Photo © Charlotte Tolhurst

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