11 Dec 2009

Photography Tutorials: Food

Selling baked goods online is almost as challenging as selling art: how do you make a customer fall in love with your cookies when they can’t smell them baking or see their yummy goodness in person? The answer, as always, is in the photography.

This was a tough assignment, but someone had to do it! I asked Tracy, the owner of Once Upon a Cookie (who, by the way, bakes the most ridiculously delicious cookie that you’ll ever eat in your life) to “lend” me a few samples to shoot for this tutorial.

In my humble opinion, the best images are the ones that let the cookies speak for themselves. No props, no busy background, no weird staging. These are cookies. You eat them. End of story.

1. Resist the temptation to photograph from far away. Get up close, use the macro function on your camera, and show people just how yummy these things really are.



2. Get creative with the layout. Shoot in a way that makes your product interesting, yet still shows the detail.



3. This happened quite by accident, but I’m certainly grateful to my two-year-old for showing me another great way to photograph food. A chubby little hand grabbing the cookie is a perfect way to show the scale of the item (Tracy’s cookies are mammoth, by the way) and gets the point across - these are too good to resist!



Keep your background clean and white (colours are distracting and the wrong ones can actually be unappetizing), find a natural light source, and get up close and personal with your food!

(I don’t know what happened to Tracy’s cookies after this photo shoot. They seem to have disappeared. How very odd...)

Written my Michelle of MKCPhotography

27 Nov 2009

Black Friday Handmade Deals

So today is Black Friday and I've noticed lots of handmade sellers are offering special deals. I thought I'd share a few of the ones I've seen. If you have having a sale, please feel free to add it in the comments on this post, if you are shopping for gifts, avoid the shop queues, get all of the goods delivered to your door and get your mouse clicking. Your feet, credit card and arms will thank you.

PiratePixieCrew- 10% discount on anything over US$ 10 until the end of November. Quote coupon code "Bring on the snow" at the checkout.

Chalk Hill Studio- 15% off when you spend £25 over

Adnagam Envelopes-Free shipping worldwide for orders over US$1


The House of Mouse-get up to $15 off a large selection of mice from The House of Mouse! Please check out the sale section in the shop.

Bella Headbands-2 for 3 offer on headbands until November 30th

Happy Christmas shopping people. Remember handmade goods make great gifts. It is very unlikely that the person receiving it will end up with 2 of the same thing and all the items are made with love and attention to detail. Have fun looking!

23 Nov 2009

Insects!

It's getting cold outside and all the insects that spent the summer rushing about going about their business have disappeared from view. Where do they all go? Where do they hide away until the warmth of spring lets them know it's time to get busy again? Their disappearance is one of the reasons I get down in Winter. A garden full of chirping, buzzing, hopping, leaping insects looks so alive and vibrant. Once they go the garden looks tired, as if sleeping due to hypothermia. I want them to hurry back. Bring on Spring!





Rainwolf


I want the insects back!

Written by Lynne of Hyperloop Hoops and Pirate Pixie Crew

21 Nov 2009

Flickr Friends Finds

All this time I've been away sick you lovely people have still been adding photos of your gorgeous handmade goodies to our Flickr group. Thank you so much for doing that. I've picked out a few to share with the other blog readers today. There were so many to choose from that it took me 3 hours to finally pick. Needless to say there are loads more I want to share, but it will have to wait until another day, or this blog post will be a mile long.






Adorable, beautiful, stylish, comedic, fantastic... the mixture of things you can find in the flickr group is amazing. Please go check it out and click through to the photostreams of the posters to the group to see even more amazing handmade items, but remember to make yourself a cup of tea or coffee before you do as you are sure to be there a long time being wowed by what you see.

Written by Lynne of Pirate Pixie Crew and Hyperloop Hoops

Hammered Metal

Just pictures and links today. I love the texture and simplicity of hammered metal, so feast your eyes on these beauties:-


Clicking on the image takes you to the items listing. Clicking on the name takes you to the shop. Check out other items from all these sellers. There is lots of gorgeous stuff you need to see.

Collated Lynne of Hyperloop Hoops and Pirate Pixie Crew

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