From Chef to Table



Food photography is popular and seen everywhere. From mouthwatering adverts to social media posted 'snaps' with a mobile-phone camera. The glossy magazines / blogs / adverts all have one thing in common: virtually all of the food shown in the photographs is not what you're going to get if you order that dish in the restaurant. Why? Because those images are lovingly prepared by a "food economist", using a variety of 'tricks' to make the food look beautiful - some of which have nothing to do with the food you see actually being edible afterwards... and that's before the resulting image has been 'photoshopped' (and think what 'photoshopping' does to models and celebs)! In other words: what you see is definetly not what you get. Now the crafting of a foodie still-life for an advert is an art - make no mistake - just as the careful lighting and composition by the photographer, and even the 'photoshopping' manipulation by the retouching artist is skilled and combined they produce a pleasing, if not necessarily true-to-life, result. However, what I want to showcase on this site is beautiful food, and to show that it can look beautiful exactly as the chef put it on the pass, without the need for artifical measures to 'improve' what you see. So, while I might do a little post-processing to clean up an image, crop it, and maybe add a vignette to highlight the food, these are all photos of food exactly as it came out of the kitchen.

Food photography is popular and seen everywhere.

From mouthwatering adverts to social media posted 'snaps' with a mobile-phone camera.

The glossy magazines / blogs / adverts all have one thing in common: virtually all of the food shown in the photographs is not what you're going to get if you order that dish in the restaurant.

Why? Because those images are lovingly prepared by a "food economist", using a variety of 'tricks' to make the food look beautiful - some of which have nothing to do with the food you see actually being edible afterwards... and that's before the resulting image has been 'photoshopped'
(and think what 'photoshopping' does to models and celebs)!

In other words: what you see is definetly not what you get.

Now the crafting of a foodie still-life for an advert is an art - make no mistake - just as the careful lighting and composition by the photographer, and even the 'photoshopping' manipulation by the retouching artist is skilled and combined they produce a pleasing, if not necessarily true-to-life, result.

However, what I want to showcase on this site is beautiful food, and to show that it can look beautiful exactly as the chef put it on the pass, without the need for artifical measures to 'improve' what you see.

So, while I might do a little post-processing to clean up an image, crop it, and maybe add a vignette to highlight the food, these are all photos of food exactly as it came out of the kitchen.

Starters	Mains	Desserts	Sundaries