“Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.”
Marius Vieth
We’re really excited about our next Food Styling workshop!Will you be there?
Darter Photography presents a food styling and photography workshop is association with Lodi – The Garden Restaurant, New Delhi, our 4th one in Delhi. If you are passionate about food styling and photography, this is for you. We’ll cover building a basic food frame, the colour palette, playing with light, then blocking it, shadows, using props well and where to find them … and much more.
Give us a shout if you need anything specific. We’re all ears!
“It’s the same principals of great photography. Even though it doesn’t move, food still has a moment.”
Penny De Los Stantos
Remember when I said “There’s something about food photography that makes the heart skip a beat. It’s a truly rewarding experience, a visual delight, an instant connect. Food photography and food styling are best friends forever. One cannot excel without the other, and it’s an endless learning experience. The net is never ceases to amaze, showcasing the vast talent that lies before us. Food blogs are an important contributors too, some who have inspired me endlessly for so many years.”
I was talking about the online food photography event DMBLGiT. Well it’s back with another edition, the Jul 2015 edition, and this time it’s evolved a bit, trying something new. We are co-hosting the event! By co-hosting we attempt to spread the contest and invite more participants. The contest quality improves and winners get more exposure and wider reach. More details on co-host and July event here.
Three of us,Passionate About Baking, Lemon in Ginger.com and The Spice Train, are co-hosting the event with Neel @ Learn Food Photography. Only good and yummy can come out of this delectable combination, so keep ’em entries rolling in. We’ve got just a few days to go to the deadline –July 20th at midnight C.S.T (Chicago Time)
The rules once again. quite simple and straightforward. Ping me in case of any double, or if you need anything else.
Criterion for judging:
Aesthetics: composition, food styling, lighting, focus, etc.
Edibility: “does the photo make us want to dive in and eat the food?”
Originality: the photograph that catches our attention and makes us want to say “wow!”, displaying something we might not have seen before.
Overall Winner: top overall scores in all three categories combined.
There are three overall winners for photographs with the highest point totals in all three categories combined, and one winner in each of the three individual categories.
To be part of DMBLGiT, email me your best photograph taken in June ’15 using the submission instructions below.
Photo Submission Requirements:
Send your photos as an attachment to dmblgit[at]learnfoodphotography[dot]com with Subject “DMBLGiT Jul 2015″. It is critical that subject of the email matched exactly to what’s mentioned above. You will receive an email confirmation of submission.
Include this information in your photo submission:
Your full name:
Your blog name and URL
Title of your photograph
URL to blogpost where submitted photo is posted
Agreement from you agreeing to let us display your photo on host website, learnfoodphotography.com and DMBLGiT contest gallery. We won’t use your photo for any other purpose outside DMBLGiT.
Important: File format needs to be jpeg format and longest size should be no longer than 500 pixels. This means for horizontal or landscape format max 500 px width and for vertical or portrait format max 500 px height.
Photo must not have any text.
General DMBLGiT Contest Rules:
Only one entry per person. One photograph. No diptychs
This photo should be taken and posted in the month of June 2015
This goes without saying but I will say it anyway – you must have taken this photograph and should have copyrights to this photo.
Entries must be received by July 20th at midnight C.S.T (Chicago Time) using all requirements described in the photo requirements section.
More information and FAQs if required can be found here.
“Keep props tasteful and simple. Remember the food is the star!
Robin Zachary
Food photography and food styling are best friends forever. One cannot excel without the other, and it’s an endless learning experience. The net is never ceases to amaze, showcasing the vast talent that lies before us. Food blogs are an important contributors too, some who have inspired me endlessly for so many years. Does my blog look good in this {DMBLGiT} …. or this……maybe this … or this? Styling and shooting food is music to my ears, thoughts that fill my head all day long. Call it an obsession, call it wasteful pleasure, call it developing a skill set or hobby, even shooting for clients, shooting is what I like to do best. I could spend hours with the camera, just whiling my time away, clicking colours, angles, produce, cakes … anything food. These are simple pleasures in the life of a food blogger. Where else would you find such a large-hearted community that is brought together by pure food porn?
And that brings me in to announce the winners of the DMGLBiT {Does my blog look good in this} April 2015. I am eternally grateful to the sweet Sophia Terra-Ziva and Ludmila Slokoski for taking time out of their busy schedules to judge this event. It means a lot to the food bloggers community when stalwarts like you who inspire us through every frame connect with us like this. Also HUGE thanks to Neel @ LFP who has resurrected this event and agreed to judge it too, despite traveling across continents!
Thank you ALL, the wonderful food bloggers for whole heartedly joining in. This event is on it’s feet only because of you. The enthusiasm, the spirit and the ‘wanting’ to learn is heartening to see. The judges have enjoyed looking at the submissions, and have offered feedback/comments on what you sent in. If you wish to hear how they felt, or how you can improve, then do drop me a line. I will be happy to share it with you. And now, time for the drumroll as we announce the well deserving winners.
DMBLGiT April 2015 Winners
Each DMBLGiT event has 6 total winners. One in each of these categories Edibility, Originality and Aesthetics – so that’s three. And three positions for overall winners.
Congratulations to all of you. Brilliant stuff! Thank you so much for participating.
Don’t forget to congratulate the winners by leaving a comment on their blogs. Also, do participate in May contest at Deepali from Lemon in Ginger. Official announcement should come soon.