RUSTIC DINNERWARE, BOX OF SCROLLS or 7th to 13th April 2014 – 365 DAYS OF PHOTOGRAPHY

16 April 2014

Time is a sneaky thing; it seems to tiptoe out of my sight before I turn my head around...  A blink and it’s gone!
Here is another week for me to share with you.  I had a chance to shoot more of my kind of things – food, kitchen utensils and all about cooking.  To end with, I included three of the images I made for baking company Box Of Scrolls for their upcoming website. 
Enjoy the “little walk” through my kitchen, stash of props and studio!
And thank you for stopping by.

7th April 2014

8th April 2014

9th April 2014

10th April 2014

11th April 2014

12th April 2014

13th April 2014

See you next time!
Ciao,
Sophia


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ELVIS FROM THE CORNER SHOP, BIRTHDAY PICNIC ON THE BEACH or 24th March to 6th April 2014 – 365 DAYS OF PHOTOGRAPHY

10 April 2014

Hello again,
I have missed you all!  Two weeks went fast and so many things did happened.  In the mean time I managed to get some nice piece of leather from the corner upholstery shop and the shop owner was happy to pose for me.  Yep, that’s him – Elvis Presley from the Corner Shop!  He was proud to show me his gold chain collection and had few pelvis moves to show me he can shake it like The King himself...
The next day I shot a wild roquette salad with smoked Tasmanian salmon, sixty/sixty eggsand Himalayan pink salt with my new leather in the background.  Salad was delicious and the recipe is self-explanatory.  However, if you would like, let me know and I’ll post the detailed instructions.
The following days were like riding the wind – fast and swirly.  I had my Saturday spent in the Stylist Lab studio for our Hands On class and believe me, that was fun!  This time for a change I was styling and Marty Lochmann was taking the shots.  You can see them on here.
Sunday was my older daughter’s birthday and we went to celebrate it on picnic on Maianbar Beach.  We had lots of fun, lots of sun and lots of splash in the water.  And you know what – when Daddy is around, the sea is only knee deep!
Oh, yeah – on the way home we passed some nice cliff full of paragliders and then we stopped at the Hindu temple at Helensburgh.  Wow, that was a big day!
The rest of the week went in shooting images for a pastry and sweets client and I hope I’ll be able to show you soon some of my work.
I hope you enjoy my latest 365 photography update and thank you for stopping by.

24th March 2014


25th March 2014


26th March 2014


27th March 2014


28th March 2014


29th March 2014


30th March 2014


31st March 2014


1st April 2014


2nd April 2014


3rd April 2014


4th April 2014


5th April 2014


6th April 2014


Until my next post!
Ciao,
Sophia


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THEY CALL ME THE ASSASSIN...

1 April 2014

They call me The Assassin...
My shooting method is pretty plain and straight forward – shoot to “kill” on first sight!  No misses.
In my humble suburban home I am the marksman-housewife in disguise.
Only few close friends of mine know in what predicament I live and work.
I have two very imaginative, energetic and artistic girls.  They are part of everything I do and breathe and doing food photography is inevitably part of their life.  They can’t have it any other way.  I always allow them to be part of my creative work – let them hold the reflector, play with styling and even have the first 5 minutes to shoot their own photos of the setting from my camera.  My oldest girl likes to arrange the food.  My little girl likes to sit under the tripod as if this is a tipi Indian tent.  All I have to do is shouting “Hold!” before I press the button and then they are back to their normal mischievous activities...
Most of my shots are the final product of what and how I dream them.  I pre-visualise them, I sketch them with words or drawings, or I just throw in my note book words as chain of lexical-semantic network and trying to draw out of it what mood has been lurking under my deepest thoughts and feeling.
Then the moment of shooting comes.  And this is the time I am as a trained and briefed special operations soldier on a mission.  I have it in my head.  I know how it has to look.  It has to be done with military precision.  And I have only 30 minutes to cook, set, plate, style, shoot and clean.  With a bit of luck, if the girls are watching TV, I don’t have to let them be stylists and photographers, but I always have to allow for that spare 5 minutes.  I don’t have room for mistakes or re-shoots.

Yep, they call me The Assassin and I cook, style and “shoot to kill”.



Until my next post!
Ciao,
Sophia


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