Photographs taken on my Food Portraits one day course at Aspire Photography Training.
"From plate to pixel" is the title of Helen du Jardin's excellent book on food photography. It takes the reader through buying a camera and lenses suitable for taking photographs of food, to styling and shooting great images.
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I am sitting in room 1.1 at the head office of the Guardian Newspaper, London awaiting 10 students. I know one is called Emily and she has told me she is a journalist and has a young child who has both Type 1 diabetes and coeliac disease.
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"How many students have we got today?" I asked Joe Piliero, the director of the School of Artisan Food as we were setting up our first Introduction to Food Photograph course a couple of weeks ago. "Fourteen" he answered and I was delighted. Just enough students to work in four groups on our projects for the day but not too many to overwhelm me.
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