It’s my pleasure to share with you the details of the Netherlands advanced food photography workshop with Bea Lubas. This advanced food photography workshop was a stand out for me for a few reasons. Firstly, the space, the photographers and the content were the best I think we’ve taught. Passionate people coming together to learn advanced skills that will help them improve their food photography, nothing more is sweeter. Discover the creative process of two professional food photographers. Food photography is such an in-depth niche of photography. There are so many little details to pay attention to. As I get more years under my belt as a pro food photographer, the more I realise just how important the creative process is. It’s important to help you create and photograph the best version of your work. To stay original and stand out from the crowd. In our most advanced workshop yet, Bea Lubas and I gathered in a room of 11 other photographers to explore our individual creative processes. To allow our passionate attendees to get into our heads as we craft a food story from the very beginning of concept creation to execution. We covered The individual creative process of two unique to find inspiration and build a photo to finish the creative to pivot and troubleshoot the things that don’t workflow, gear and composition. Create Beautiful Food Photography – The Photo Assignments. As this was a two-day advanced workshop, we wanted to really allow the photographers attending to implement what they’d learned from day one with hands-on sessions. We created two photo-assignments. Attendees were paired into groups and had 90 mins to produce an image that matched the brief they were given. Attendees came up with their inspiration and concept directions during their homework session. We then regrouped as a unit and discussed what each photographer wanted to replicate in their images. Creative Photo Assignment – Minimal, Masculine Whiskey. The masculine, minimal whiskey shot I lead the group through. Prior to the workshop, we surveyed attendees to see what they most wanted to learn from each of us. With my work, it was how I can make a minimal subject look really powerful. Drinks were something that has come up as difficult to shoot. So I put together a masculine concept for a whiskey shot. I wanted it to be minimal, so there were guidelines for minimal prop use. I decided upon a masculine concept, as I know a lot of photographers who rely on pretty’ things such as flowers to make drinks looks nice. Wanting the creatives to get into the bare bones of what makes a food story beautiful, and powerful. The directives were Minimal props and atmosphere that felt be shot with a narrow focal length for a portrait about the layers that will make the drink shadows and negative space as compositional tools. Here are some shots from the creatives. Creative Photo Assignment – Flatlay. With Bea’s work, a lot of the attendees felt that they loved how she was able to use so many subjects in her images. Yet have them feel calm, interesting and perfect. The second creative photo assignment was the opposite to the first. Our attendees were now being asked to forget minimal, and use many props and subjects to tell a story. The directives were Compose a flatlay scene with the angle from about props as being a supportive layers will add more of subjects to feel calm with organic a 50mm lens. Here are some shots from the creatives. When I first shot together with Bea Lubas, she taught me a lot. Even though I was a professional with many years of experience under my belt, there is always something new to learn. We knew the power of discovering the creative process of others and being able to uncover their secret techniques and workflow. We wanted to give that to our passionate group. I know you’re curious to know what we teach at an advanced food photography workshop. Here is a little snippet of what we went through during the two days. DAY 1 – Discover the creative process of two professional food photographers. Get into our heads as we craft a food story from the very beginning of concept creation to execution. Experience the little tricks and techniques we use to create showstopping images for our personal collection and clients. We covered The individual creative process of two unique to find inspiration and build a photo to finish creative to pivot and troubleshoot the things that don’t workflow, gear and to explore your scene for variety and about our creative workflows. DAY 2 – Hands-on creative and photo assignment. Implementing the techniques and workflow from Day 1 to create interest and beauty into our images with more intention. We covered Creative breakdown of our best shooting sessions with a photo and feedback from Bea and roadblocks with other to incorporate our skills while being true to your session. The workshop was hosted in Utrecht, The Netherlands by Ans from Studio Tout-Doux. A big thanks to Ans who was the most wonderful host. Lucie Beck, a local food photographer from the Netherlands supported our workshop by helping us organise the location, supplying props and the necessary equipment to make the day as successful as possible. If you haven’t attended a workshop with me yet, I hope to see you at a future one. You can always check out my online training too!