Food Photography Workshop with Modernist Cuisine Photographer Ryan Matthew Smith

Join Modernist Cuisine photographer, Ryan Matthew Smith, for a hands-on food photography workshop at TASTE in downtown Seattle. Ryan will explain the lighting techniques used during the making of Modernist Cuisine, as well as critical Photoshop steps to make your images pop!

Sunday, September 18th
10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
TASTE restaurant at the SAM
1300 1st Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
United States

$125 per person, includes lunch.  Click here to purchase tickets.  Enrollment is limited to 12 students.

Agenda:

• An introduction to Ryan’s food photography
• Demos of strobe light techniques used in Modernist Cuisine
• Lunch provided by TASTE restaurant
• Hands-on action shooting workshop.  Attendees will learn to shoot food in motion!
• Photoshop Lesson 1: Curves -  The nearly everything tool
• Photoshop Lesson 2: Layer masking techniques -  How to localize your adjustments
• Photoshop Lesson 3: Making a single image from multiple captures
• Q&A session
• Student portfolio critique (optional)

A DSLR camera and previous Photoshop experience is recommended, but not required.  If you have a DSLR, please bring it for the hands-on shooting workshop.  If not, there will be a camera available to borrow.  You will have the opportunity to work with high-end Broncolor lighting equipment and also experiment with budget-friendly Alienbees strobes.  However, the lessons you’ll learn will enhance your food photography skills regardless of the equipment you use at home.

Your ticket price includes lunch provided by TASTE restaurant.  Confirmed attendees will be allowed to upload samples of previous work into a Flickr pool for the student portfolio critique at the end of the workshop.

If you have questions, please contact scott@seattlefoodgeek.com. 

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/193673