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Food Styling & Photography

The art of bringing food styling and food photography into the life of a food blogger is challenging. It is not easy sharing your art with the virtual world… There are so many areas that needs to be covered for a Raw Food Stylist & Photographer Blogger to share his or her final work, we need to take into account and start with the following:

• Create a Raw Palatable Recipe
  
• Make Sure it Has the Right Color Balance According to the Season
  
• Choosing the right Prop
  
• Knowing what you Want: Elegant, Rustic or Resturanty Looks
  
• Buy the Ingredients a Day Before Hand & Prepare
  
• Style & Shot (the most frustrating part for me)
  
• A Small Editing on the Photoshop
  
• Hold Your Breath and Share it

But of course as is with anything, you need to have a passion for creativity. I became passionate about cheffing purely because every time I got an order, I put the docket in front of me, and the first thing that I would grab was the big white plates, because then I knew that it was completely up to me to choose how I want to mount (stack) the creation (food) on the plate. It was the same with taking photographs for me when I first started using a camera at the age of 21 traveling around Africa from Uganda to Cape Town. Looking through the lens and taking the shots felt like it was my new tool to release my emotional package… and after taking a class in Montreal for 3 months learning the basics of Black & White photography 6 years ago, and working in the dark room developing all the photographs that I took during my 9 month trip through South America I knew that one day I want to combine both of my passion, (food Styling and Photography) together… and so this dream started about 9 months ago with Shiitake Blog.