Category Archives: Food Photography

{Something’s Brewing} Muddy’s Grind House

October 27, 2014 8:58 am ⋅ 2 Comments ⋅

I’m SO excited!

There’s been one burning question Memphians have been asking for years: “Will there be a second location of Muddy’s?” That question has finally been answered, in the form of a Muddy’s spin-off shop: Muddy’s Grind House! A coffee shop!

I was asked to do some product photography and photos of the shop, which has been in its soft opening stage. The Grind House is located in the Cooper-Young neighborhood of Midtown Memphis.  They carry a small selection of items from Muddy’s, such as cupcakes and pie, but they have new goodies just for the coffee shop: coffee cakes, biscuits, scones, and more. It’s wonderful!

I’m just going to give you a few sneak peek photos from the day of this shoot- you can already see some more of them on the Muddy’s Grind House website!

P.S. I tried all the baked goods you see in the photos – I’m still dreaming of those coffee cakes 🙂

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{January Pretties}

November 15, 2013 10:33 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

What you see here are vegan fresh blackberry pancakes I made back in January. I, of course, photographed the pancakes and posted the photo on Instagram. It’s what we do these days, right?  But I’m so glad I shot them on film too!  The REAL film “look” and shallow depth make this version oh-so-much prettier than the wannabe film filters any phone app can offer!

 Nikon EM Nikon • 50mm 1.8 AIS + close-up filter • Kodak Ektar 100

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{Instant Food Photography} Homemade Treats

September 13, 2013 9:00 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

Some things I recently baked and photographed on Impossible Project film…

Perfect snack, imperfect photo
(vegan mini blueberry strawberry pie + French press coffee)

Happy Birthday Coty
(mini red velvet cake+ cream cheese icing)

Afternoon serenity
(vegan blueberry crumb cake + green tea) 

Polaroid Spectra 1200si + close-up lens • Impossible Project PZ 680 Color Protection film

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Mini P♥I♥E!!!!!!

August 11, 2013 9:07 am ⋅ Leave a Comment ⋅

(Mini vegan cran-cherry pie…just a little pretty thing I made last week)
Nikon FE • Nikon 50mm/1.8 Ais + Hoya close-up filters • Kodak Gold 200

I have to say that I am loving my close-up filters. I was going through some of my miscellaneous photographic paraphernalia last year and found a mint set of Hoya close-up filters that I didn’t know I possessed. I was excited about this because I was planning a trip to London. I knew it would be easier to carry around a set of close-up filters rather than my usual macro extension tubes to get closer than my 50mm lens allows (which isn’t very close with this Nikon 50mm.) The filters basically work like magnifying glass that you screw into the filter ring on a lens. There are different magnification levels, and you can stack the filters to get the magnification you want. For example, the first two photos of the pie were taken with the +2 filter. The last was taken with both the +2 and the +1 filter together. See how using the two filters together allowed me to get even closer to my subject?

I’m sure there is some degradation of  the lens quality when you have such a simple little close-up filter attached, but I’ve not been bothered by it thus far!

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