Food Photography Workshop with Nancy Ori

Sunday March 26th 20170326

Next stop on my photog journey was an afternoon with Nancy Ori and a Food Photography Workshop at Nancy’s home in Berkeley Heights NJ. I was originally looking to learn more about Product Photography when I stumbled upon Nancy’s workshop. The more I read about Nancy and her workshops the more intrigued I became! I am so glad I chose to go as Nancy is an amazing person with many talents and a great breadth of experience, who once studied with Ansel Adams, among her many fascinating experiences.

Read more about Nancy and her workshops here .

I highly recommend any opportunity to participate in any of Nancy’s workshops, exhibits or lectures. I never learned so much in so short a time!

“Nancy has been affiliated for many years with the Ansel Adams Workshop in California. She is also on the faculty of numerous art centers and museums in New Jersey. In 1990, she established The New Jersey Heritage Workshops, a series of painting and photography workshops, held, each spring in Cape May. And in 1995 she established the New Jersey Photography Forum, which is a group of professional and semi-professional photographers that meet regularly to discuss their work as well as exhibit within the state. Photographing in the West Coast tradition of her long-time mentor, Ansel Adams, she expresses her own interpretation of the landscape and architecture. Her photographs reveal a love of light, shadow and form in natural and man-made settings.”

After an interesting and informative lecture with slideshow, Nancy showed us how to set up the lighting for our first subject, a Fruit tart. Not thrilled with how these came out, but I learned. After taking turns with the tart, we broke up into pairs where one was the photographer and the other the Stylist. The next photos in the series are of my wine and cheese creation. My Stylist who’s name I ashamed to say I can’t remember, did a wonderful job of helping me gather the ingredients and props that we arranged, resulting in the photo you see here. The next shot with the white wine was one from the other students creation and finally the photo with brie and fig spread was my partners inspiration.

I hope to put what I learned to use not only with practicing Food Photography but apply it to Product, Portrait and all aspects of learning the art and trade!