Overview

Shoot food photographs that sell the product without accompanying text descriptions.

The way to a person’s stomach is through their eyes, which is why there is so much demand nowadays for mouth-watering food photography among food establishments and food products. Whether you shoot food for a living or for your Mom and Pop chop-and-chew shop, you will benefit from this workshop.

Who should attend

• Commercial photographers doing work for advertising and food packaging
• Photographers planning to specialize in food photography
• Amateur photographers and food stylists who want to broaden their skill set
• Business owners, managers in the food industry
• In-house staff of food establishments in charge of preparing displays, menus, and sales materials
• Trainee and professional chefs
• Culinary professionals
• Food bloggers and writers
• Food consultants
• Foodies

This is a live, instructor-led online class, complete with discussions, demonstrations, hands-on exercises, and offline project. This class uses Zoom and Google Classroom.

What will be covered

• Equipment needed, from camera and lenses, lights, to inexpensive widgets
• Some fundamental composition rules and creative styles
• Participants will experience and play with at least four (4) different basic lighting techniques
• Sculpting food with light in order to bring out the food’s color, texture, form, shape, and lines
• Basic food styling and food prep techniques
• Simple Photoshop techniques that help solve some food photography problems
• Problems, solutions, and workarounds
• The business side of food photography

Prerequisite:

Participants should have attended the PCCI’s Basic Photography workshop, or have equivalent experience in photography

Requirements:

• Digital camera with manual exposure control, and preferably but not necessarily, with a PC socket for external flash
• Lens that can fill the frame with a single entree on a regular-sized plate
• Lots of memory cards, batteries and a battery charger
• Tripod is highly recommended. (Lighting will be continuous light, not strobe. Definitely, long exposure will be needed. Tripod will prevent camera shake)
• Computer with a program for viewing and selecting uploaded images.
• Students must have the following: Zoom application, Gmail account (for Google Classroom), and stable internet connection. 

Benefits

1. Includes e-certificate of completion
2. Lifetime Free Refresher  (You may attend again the same course,  free of charge, on a space-available basis.)
3. Alumni discount
4. Enroll in our L2C (Learning to Certification) programs and get a globally recognized certificate. This course is part of:

• • Commercial Photography Module
  • Photography NC II certificate program

Fees: ₱4,000 inclusive of VAT.
Includes materials & e-certificate at the end of the class.

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Duration:  3 sessions | 3 hours per session | 9 hours total

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