Case Study: Stilvi Cafe
Owned and operated by my clients at Elia Greek Street Food, Stilvi Cafe is their sister restaurant brand with venues in Hawley Wharf Camden and Camden Boxpark.
Stilvi specialises in cute desserts, including pancakes, soft-serve, and waffles, as well as hot coffee and iced coffee. Stilvi operates in bustling areas within Camden.
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Journal: Explained - Editing vs Retouching
You will often hear the terms ‘editing’ and ‘retouching’ being thrown about a lot in the food photography world. Often though, there’s not a lot clarification on what they mean. So what is the difference between editing and retouching?
Editing makes up for roughly 60% of the food photography post-production work that I carry out. A typical edit will involve cropping, re-cropping to a client’s specified ratio, frame straightening, and a basic grade; which includes, tweaking exposure, colour temperature, tint levels, colour balance levels, contrast, lens adjustments, as well as adjusting highlight and shadow details.
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Case Study: Kalmar Lifestyle
Based in Belgravia, London - Kalmar is a lifestyle brand that creates indulgent self-care products. Set up by founder Karen Ruimy, a writer, dancer, and spiritual healer - Kalmar’s range of products are spread across their four Soul States - Joy, Calm, Peace, and Love; each with it’s own unique collection of self-care products.
With the brand ever-growing in popularity and the completion of the soon-to-be-opened Treatment Rooms, the brand was set to re-focus into its core USP of wellbeing, self-care, and spirituality.
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Case Study: The Organic Pharmacy
I was contacted by London based health & beauty brand, The Organic Pharmacy. As a long established company, they specialise in producing products that fuse their herbal, homeopathic and cosmetic knowledge to create high-performance beauty products.
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Project Introduction: Our Table - Dean Parker at Darby's
After being in the fortunate position to work as a full-time freelance food photographer for the past four years - I’ve been wanting to return to my roots by shooting more closely with restaurants and to give back a bit; reminiscent of when I was a child, growing up above my parent’s Anglo-French restaurant in East Sussex. This is where my passion for food was first ignited, creating many warm memories of food.
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Journal: Covid-19 - Shooting During Lockdown
We can all agree to what a strange and interesting times we’re all going through at the moment, from both a social and working angle. Now being five-months along the line into the UK’s lockdown, we are all seeing an ease of the measures and consumer confidence rising across the board; resulting in more people feeling comfortable in expanding their social bubble; going into work once a week for team-wide catch-ups, and going back out to eat, drink and for more experiential-led shopping.
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Journal: Travelling - Vietnam
I recently got back from a two-week trip to Vietnam. Having wanted to go there for years, I booked a bit of time out in my calendar, and took some time out with a mate - travelling around the north of the country.
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Journal: Review - Fuji X Pro 1
I am very late to the party, but as I’ve just picked myself up a Fuji X Pro 1 - I wanted to part with my thoughts on Fuji’s answer to the prosumer rangefinder.
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Journal: 35mm film scanning process
Following my past post, ‘Which film lab', I'm now solely scanning my film at home once it's back from the film lab.
Here's my guide on how to scan developed film at home:
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Journal: Shooting with CineStill 800T
CineStill is the newest addition to my film fridge box and has now become my favourite film to shoot with; Here's why..
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Journal: Wandering Journal - Hong Kong + Japan
Here's the first of a few books I'll be making from my journey to Hong Kong & Japan, from May/ June of 2016.
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Journal: Analog travel - Hong Kong & Japan
This ones a bit after the fact, but still worth it.
After wanting to travel to the East for most of my life, in May I took a month off of my day job to embark on an amazing trip to Hong Kong & Japan
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