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thought i knew alot about photography, then i bought a studio flash set and it blew my mind. After lots of utube videos and of course talkphotography Ive completed a shoot for a restaurant client and here it is

http://www.stuartanthony.org.uk/section391151_377403.html

There is a mix of shots here some without flash, but the food shots are all with flash, just wondered what your thoughts were and criticisms welcome.

The flash set by the way is lencarta 300 elite.
 
Wow, these are amazing. I just bought my first flash last week and had a quick play n know how hard it is. Think you have these shots just right where you cant tell they are flashed.

Can you recommend any youtube videos..?
 
Thanks for the feed back Tyler,
cant remember the utube vids there are hundreds. but i do recommend the lencarta website for some in depth tutorials by Gary Edwards. Just grasp the basics and lots of practise.
 
stuart anthony said:
Thanks for the feed back Tyler,
cant remember the utube vids there are hundreds. but i do recommend the lencarta website for some in depth tutorials by Gary Edwards. Just grasp the basics and lots of practise.
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Cheers will check them out, only had a sort fiddle the other week with it off camera and it wasn't good. On camera was ok but was with TTL
 
very impressive, very good clarity on those!
 
I'm guessing you used shoot through umbrellas?

Some nice shots in there Stuart, they look appealing and I'm sure will showcase the restaurant nicely
 
If it means anything to you, those are as good a quality in terms of lighting, composition and all round quality as the ones that I used to commission when I was working for one of the top 5 breweries.

Great shots!

Slight edit:

the horizon on the wine glasses could possibly go +2deg or so CW, and I'd prefer slightly deeper DoF on the chicken wings. Other than than....... :D
 
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Nice shots, and well lit.

Minor point - You have a typo on your website. It should be aerial, not ariel photography.
 
Thanks to all who spotted the typo mistake i have now corrected. and thanks for the positive feedback on my pictures. well now ive grasped the easy part of the business now time for the hard part ......marketing.!

Oh......... the light mods were a combination of a large soft box and/or shoot through umbrella.
 
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.... ive grasped the easy part of the business now time for the hard part ......marketing.
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At the risk of teaching granny to suck chicken deposits, if I were you I'd try to get a second shoot for the portfolio, and then start approaching the National Breweries for work. I'd mock up a triptych pamphlet in Indesign, find out who the marketing directors are for each company, and then approach them for business sending your pamph as example work with a link on it to your online portfolio.

I'd also be doing the same for any high class local restaurant, and it might help if you check their website in advance to see how up-to-date their current shots are!

The nationals will require a new shoot for each menu change and addition, and will usually have a shoot done each time they open/refurb one of their better pubs or eating venues, for marketing purposes. For example, Greene King currently have approximately 890 managed pubs, and are looking to expand by another 200 over the next 3 years.
 
Fantastic, the client will be more than pleased with those.:thumbs:

Well done.

Lisa
 
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