IFBC 2012 : Food Photography with Andrew Scrivani and Chef John
On Friday I drove down to beautiful Portland with my dear friend Nazila, writer of the gorgeous blog Banamak and champion drunken snorer, to attend the International Food Blogger Conference. It’s the first one of these I’ve attended and I came away incredibly inspired and full of plans and ideas for the blog.
I met up with old friends and made new ones, attended incredibly useful classes, ate unbelievably good food and had some great conversations with advertisers, PR companies, ad networks and publishers. My head is still reeling from all the information I have to process.
One of the aforementioned old friends was food photographer Andrew Scrivani, who closed out proceedings on Sunday morning with a hilarious and informative cooking and photography demonstration with his good friend Chef John from Food Wishes.
A note to all the many TV executives who read this blog - these guys need their own cooking show pronto quick.
Mr S gave talked us through some of his amazing photos; an exciting dry ice shooting station was set up and the food paparazzi came out in force, with the maestro on hand to answer questions.
Chef John tortured the assembled masses by frying up a batch of the world’s crispiest onion rings (featuring a special not-so-secret ingredient), and some garlic prawns, as well as putting together a yummy-looking affogato.
Unfortunately the props didn’t last long in a room full of hungry food bloggers.
An fabulously funny time was had by all, and many pictures were taken, despite the less than ideal lighting conditions for photography.
Please get The Baldie Boys on my TV set ASAP.
not so much drunk, as tipsy and TIRED.
Posted by: nazila | 27 August 2012 at 11:56 PM
I want a dry ice station!
Posted by: tea_austen | 28 August 2012 at 06:00 AM
Nice! You got some gorgeous photos. Love the onion rings. (I got stuck at the dry ice myself.) Sorry I didn't get to meet you in person at IFBC but sounds like we had a similar experience. INSPIRING weekend.
Posted by: Jenni | 28 August 2012 at 06:02 AM
What a lovely post and gorgeous photos! I'm so glad you had a good time. Hope to see you in 2013 in our neck of the woods :)
As a side note, since we're both in Seattle let's grab a glass of wine some time!
Posted by: Sheri Wetherell | 29 August 2012 at 04:35 PM
Nice one! I sometimes prefer to take food photography because it is the most beautiful way of showing the artistry of photography.
Posted by: Jean Adams | 12 December 2012 at 08:09 AM