Notes on photographing food, people and rooms — method, kit and the occasional opinion.
Low-light restaurant photography in Abu Dhabi: how I expose, white balance and grade a dim dining room so it still reads like the evening it actually was.
One light, one window, forty-five minutes. Why a simpler portrait setup gets better pictures of chefs, founders and teams who do not want to be photographed.
How to get a full set of retouched menu stills and a graded 60-second atmosphere film out of a single shoot day, without two crews or two looks.