Baasic Food Styling & Food Photography Workshop for Dietician n Catering Officer

Seminar entitled "Everything starts with a Menu" organized by the Dietetic and Catering Department of Selangor Hospital have invited me to give a talk on "Know Your Customer" and to conduct a workshop on "Basic Food Styling and Food Photography" on the 09th October 2012. The event taken place at Dewan Ilmiah, Pusat Kawalan Kusta, Sungai Buluh, Kuala Lumpur. Thanks to the organizing committee who have invited me, felt really honored. Although it was for short while but it was a fun sharing moment.

Faking the ice cream and pasta.................

Trend and Style

Today, a simple, neat, fresh, natural and light approach is the trend in food styling and photography. Foods presented to see it imperfection, along with the use of selective focus and composition technique as well as close-ups which resulted to fewer props being used. And, this techniques introduced or developed by food stylist  and photographer alike have become an acceptable standard in the industry. Along with that, there are an increase demand for the need of high quality digital food photography - in packaging, advertising, editorial as well as internet.

Presenting food from different perspective - composition

Food Display

Working with Plate for Food Styling

There are many approaches in the art of food presentation particularly in food plating for food styling. There are classical, traditional, modern or even contemporary approaches. Food presentation or plating a food goes beyond the typical way of arranging of cooked product on a plate, but, in fact one could argue that presentation is an identity or a particular chef's style. It represent how the chef was trained and  / or where he / she practices the style.
In this art of styling, food presentation is illustrated in the 'plating of food' and captured as a photograph through the lens of a camera. Most of the photograph presented here in this blog is intended as an introduction to food styling. And with the creative arts of any kind, evolution is something that can be avoided, it is  desirable....... so, Explore.

Previous activities

It have been a long time since last I updated this blog. Too busy? Or, just plain lazy to write. So, here I am trying to update my blog. Probably for a start let me post you some of my class picture.

Malaysian Cuisine

My first Asian Cuisine class this semester. We started with some local Malay dishes - really enjoy this first class and here are some of the dishes I managed to capture using my Canon EOS 60D. Purposely set it at high ISO - 1600

 Sayur Meranti Tumis Kelapa (ISO1600, F/stop5.6, 1/200sec, 60mm, natural lighting)

Kari Udang dan Kacang Kelo

 Pucuk Labu Masak Lemak Putih

 Rendang Tok (Beef Rendang)

 Ayam Kuzi

Ayam Percik