Food Photography by Glutton Raymond Phang %

Today’s entry is to share a little bit about what we do besides shooting weddings (ROM/Conceptualised Pre-Wedding/Wedding Day). So here’s a little peek into some of his images (pretty raw I would say, If I remember correctly all these are only converted from RAW) as a Food Photographer when he was commissioned to shoot for Taste Paradise’s menu some time back. I think 2 of the images I’m sharing today are images of dishes with sharks fin. We have a lot of marine lover friends who are against shark finning, but we’re not gonna go into that area for this is purely an entry for food images. For those who love to eat sharks fin, perhaps you can try another alternative – the shark’s fin melon. Looks good, taste good with soup too! 🙂

I used to tag along for food shoots giving comments and all, until one day I ate the whole restaurant up cos I was too hungry after looking at the yummy food. Muwahahahaha! Nah just kidding, actually I stopped tagging along when the sky rained more work responsibilities upon my shoulder. Heh heh heh~

It’s not easy when you have to do the food styling and shooting at the same time, and luckily most of the time the client and restaurant crews were patient enough to accommodate our requests. Sometimes we need to spend longer time on a few particular dishes than the others, sometimes have to cook again and again, sometimes have to go find that perfect piece of carrot and make sure the chilli seeds or even the sauces are at the right spot etc. Alot of thought goes into photographing that one dish to make sure it turns out good and looks appetising. When I was at the shoot, I was always lusting after the food, hoping I could eat it after Raymond is done with the shoot. But turns out the food is not really cooked, and after being handled by a few people using their hands and some other tools, it is really not advisable to put them into your mouth. Oh well!!

Enough of my yucky wordings, here comes the food!