Monochrome Madness

Fresh sourdough bread, given to us by our neighbour (she’s a superb and generous baker). I think it works well as a BW conversion. I used the Gradient Map process for this image, outlined below.

Last weekend I submitted a few images for the weekly Lens-Artist Challenge, Colour vs Black and White. I rarely convert my images to BW as I’m mostly shooting for stock. I leave it to others to convert my images if they want a BW version. They can’t convert it the other way.

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Stock – Food Photography

A New York Cheesecake I baked for this Christmas. I shot this in my small stills area in my garage.

I think I probably developed my interest in photographing food whilst working as a wedding photographer. Small detail shots, such as flowers, guests favours, drinks and food are all part of a wedding and therefore had to be recorded by me, the wedding photographer.

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