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.

James Martin's United Cakes of America

Alongside James Martin's recent Good Food show on UKTV I shot a beautiful selection of recipes from the series. Inspired by favourite American cakes James put his own twist on much loved classics. I do love nothing better than a cake shoot. And no, not because I get to try them all, I just think they make such pretty easily shot subjects.

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