10.03.2023

From Muffin to Restaurants

VOL.12

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In this album I collected photos from different photoshoots to show how my photography changed in years and how came to big menu and content photoshoots that I do now.

That's how one of my first models were muffins and cookies. All I had at that moment was tripod, my camera and a table with paper background. I still love these photos because back then I realised that depending on an angle you can have different result for your photos.

It's all started in 2020 (yes, right when Pandemic came to our lives). I didn't have a chance to take photos with people and decided I need something to practice on.

Muffins

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How to start

To be recognized you need to be different.

Then I moved from one smal city in New Brunswick to another (a bit bigger) where we had more restaurants than just 2.

I actually created a list of restaurants there and this list didn't have more names than 50. That's not much but at least something. And all these restaurants need photos as I thought.

At this moment I decided I need more examples of what I can do. I already had some light equipment but I needed other food than just cookies. Believe me I take photos of food way better than cook.

That's why I took photos of fresh salad, yogurt with berries and the only one pie I knew how to bake. I had also a handmade sandwich but you don't want to see it, believe me.

With this in my portfolio I started pitching my ideas to the restaurants. Pandemic was still with us, and some restaurants didn't need photos because they had enough customers. I heard this first and last time in my life. Probably it's just a New Brunswick thing.

Raise hand if you don't need new customers! But anyway I've found there some restaurants that wanted to work with me and there I learned how to work with real restaurants, how to communicate and what I can shoot for them.