With more than 20 years experience styling for many of Chicago's most successful food and product photographers, she has a wonderful eye for detail and a unique talent for combining tones, textures and shapes to create some truly unforgettable images. Today she shares with us her basic approach to choosing props for an image. Hello...
Photography is what one “sees”. When two people look at an image, each one will “see” it differently. After all, art is personal expression. That being said, there are certain principles that create the foundation of great artwork. Keeping these few principles in mind while composing your image can greatly enhance your photography.
At the core of all photography lies subject, composition and lighting. If those three things are poor, no amount of post-processing work will fix it. It won’t matter what your aperture, f/stop or ISO is if you don't have an interesting subject, good composition, and great lighting. Without these, a photo will lack impact.
Potatoes are dressed with a smooth rich crème fraîche sauce with fresh chopped herbs and a bit of grated lemon zest. Potatoes aren't new, they aren't trendy, and they don’t garner much attention. The humble little potato as it’s often referred to is the soft-spoken cast member of the "vegetable play," playing the supporting role...
Silky, creamy, blueberry chocolate truffles are an easy and elegant homemade treat and/or gift. No celebration is complete without chocolate, and homemade chocolate truffles make for an easy and elegant treat. There is something undeniably gratifying about offering a homemade gift that is also thankfully easy to make and that's what these chocolate blueberry truffles...
Make your own rich & creamy chocolate gelato right at home. Find out how to make the best homemade gelato with this reader-favorite recipe that has been winning hearts for over 10 years! For chocolate lovers there’s nothing better than a scoop of rich, creamy chocolate gelato. It’s cool and creamy with an intense chocolate...
Make your own nut-free granola in minutes with this easy healthy recipe that's gluten-free, vegan, and refined sugar-free. Makes the crispiest, crunchiest granola clusters! Breakfast for me is about food that requires little energy to prepare and not much effort to eat. I tend to stick to the basics because quite honestly my brain just...
Sip on a soothing and refreshing cup of homemade fresh mint tea and say goodbye to dull, bitter store-bought versions for good. Every night after dinner you can be sure to find me with a hot cup of mint tea in my hands. A nightly cup of caffeine-free tea is my little ritual that marks...