Announcing Food, styling & craft photography workshops at our studio

We finally did it! We’re happy to be announcing new photography workshops at our studio.  Thank you to all our readers and supporters who encouraged us over the last few years to have photography workshops in our home town in Orange County, CA.

For the last few years, we’ve traveled across the country and around the world teaching workshops and speaking at industry conferences on photography. But we’ve never really formally organized local photography workshops in our town. We knew eventually we’d be announcing workshops, but it did take a few years to finally organize this. So many of you were patient to wait and keep emailing us  reminding us about organizing these. Your push made this happen!

Vignette: Photography workshops for Your Life Story. 

Please welcome our series of photography workshops called Vignette, where we offering a variety of photography workshops specially designed for the specific needs of artists and online bloggers.

After traveling across the country, speaking at conferences and  meeting so many bloggers in different niches, we learned so much about the unique photography needs of their individual blogs. All this advice, suggestions and guidance from our valued attendees and readers allowed us to create these unique workshops that go beyond food.

Our vision for making our personal series of workshops is to make each one a unique, hands-on experience and encourage the feeling of community.

Vignette: Photography workshops for Your Life Story

Food, Lifestyle, Crafts, Portraiture

We witness life’s beauty, joy, pleasure, sorrows and pain. Learn how to capture and document those life moments that are dear to you, no matter how simple or enormous.

Our Philosophy:

no one should feel alone when you want to learnlearning is always more fun as a group, make new friends and to be creative together as a communityeveryone has something to share and teachBe inspired to find and craft your unique visual voice. Share your story.

We’ll be offering a variety of these classes at various dates, so stay tuned as we announce more dates as we progress.

So without further ado, were announcing 2 dates and one TBA (after we finalize more details).

Here are the workshop dates and registration info: 

We look forward to finally meeting so many of you and learning together!

diane and todd

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New Workshop Dates for Food Photography-Food Styling & Hello from Mexico!

Hello Friends, thank you so much for the amazing response to our workshops. Our first release date sold out quickly and we’re thrilled to be hosting small groups of students at our studio. The experience of sharing and learning as a group will be phenomenal & we’re so excited to meet and be creative with you!

Since we have a long wait list, we’ve announced two more dates for our food styling and photography workshops.

For those of you interested in our portrait photography workshop sessions, thank you for the incredible response. Wow! We will be releasing those dates later after we secure some final models to be our photography subjects. We’ll also working on securing an outdoor locations for the portrait sessions . In the meantime, you can sign up for the waiting list here.

Also, for the Craft photography workshop, there are still a few spots left!

iphone image from Zihuatanejo, Mexico 

And, at this moment we’re in Mexico for the Food and Wine Festival in Ixtapa, Mexico. We’re excited to be returning this year to document this incredible gathering of food lovers from around the world to celebrate the cuisines of Mexico. We’ll be learning about the history and flavors of Mexican cuisine from expert local Chefs, along with American Chefs Michael Symon, Marcus Samuelsson and wine expert Mark Oldman.

We’ll be sharing some images soon and some lessons we learned, so hope you’re hungry for next weeks posts!

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Photo Workshops for Food, Styling, Crafts & Video of Bi-Rite Creamery Cookbook!

Happy Sunday everyone! Now that were home for 10 days straight (yes!), we’re finally able to finish off some details of our upcoming photography workshop announcements. We have much to share with you today, but let’s start with the cookbook promo video we produced for Bi-Rite Creamery’s new cookbook!

 In our previous post, we mentioned that we produced the cookbook trailer video for Bi-Rite creamery. It was such an honor to be able to work with the amazing Bi-Rite Creamery team and Ten Speed Press folks.

Chef’s Anne and Kris produce some of the best ice cream in the country. Now they’re sharing many of their terrific and special recipes in their latest book , Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones. We’ve had the book in our possession for the last few weeks and it’s hard to not put it down.

The recipes are made with love, great ingredients and local pride. You can now make their ice creams right in your own home.

Enjoy the video! And take a close look at all the food blogger cameo appearances. Do you see them in the video?

iphone shot- Thanks to friends for joining us at Bi-Rite shoot: John  FoodWishes.com, Michelle SFQ bbq sauce, Darya SummerTomato.com,  Jenna EatLiveRun.com , Anita DessertFirstGirl.com, Irvin EatTheLove.com, BenYouFedABabyChili.com , Kirsten Bi-Rite Market, Jessica SodiumGirl.com 

Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones Cookbook Promo Video 

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Photography Workshop Preliminary Details: 

So many of you have emailed, messaged and asked us about our next workshops. Sorry to make you wait so long, but we’ve been planning this so that we can properly organize and structure the workshops to make them the best that we can! We’re almost ready to launch and announce those dates next week. Thank you so much for all your patience.

We’ll be offering a variety of dates and different types of photography workshops, specializing for the needs of food bloggers, craft/design bloggers and portrait/lifestyle bloggers. Each discipline of photography has different and unique techniques and methods, so we decided to divide our workshops into different categories so that we can focus on each of your specialties.

Here’s a sneak peak at  what we’ll be offering & announcing next week: 

1. Food Photography & Food Styling Workshop  & Business of Food Photography– Hands on- 2 day workshop at our photography studio in Orange County, CA.

Learn both the art and business of food photography. This exciting 2 day, hands-on workshop will empower you to share your food photography and food stories in the best way that you can.

Topics during this 2 day workshop:

Food Styling & Prop building and making! : learn how to style food, prep it and prop it for the camera. Play in our prop room!

Make your own prop boards/surfaces: learn how to make your own prop boards & surfaces. We’ll have material for you to make, paint and create your own surfaces to keep and take home! (those traveling from out of state must ship your own props back home)

Food Photography: learn your camera, gear, basic principles of natural light, composition and workflow

Food Story, your voice: learn how to share your food story and define your own unique voice with your photographs

Photo Editing, Workflow & Tethering: learn the value of both free-hand and tethered shooting. Learn how to edit and manage your files and create a workflow that best fits your business. We’ll help critique one another’s images.

Business of Food Photography: Discussions on how to make an impressive professional portfolio, platforms, how to sell your images and the food photography business.

Breakfast , Lunch and Dinner will be served for both days.

2. Craft, Design and Lifestyle Product Photography – Etsy & Pinterest inspired! 

This workshop is created for craft, design and lifestyle product bloggers. Define your creative style! Want to learn how to photograph for your craft and lifestyle products to for Pinterest or your Etsy store?

Join us for an intensive 1 day, hands on workshop and learn how to make pretty pictures for your Etsy store or Pinterst.

You will learn basic principles of natural lighting, camera, composition, gear, editing and photographic techniques for your crafts.

Styling- knowing how to style and prop your crafts and products is equally as important as the technical part of photography. Learn how to prop and style your photographs to make them visually stunning.

Bring your crafts/products! ( limited to 2-3 small, hand held items only please) : with time and space permitting, bring your crafts to photograph and practice with.

Location: Our Photography studio

3. Portraiture- Life Faces . Captured.

The people in our lives nourish us with joy and beauty. Documenting those special people, their faces and personalities  are important to remember those valuable moments.

Learn natural posing techniques, camera, gear, composition and lighting. Understand the value of the imperfect  image and the strength of storytelling.

Location : TBD

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Food photography, styling workshop & sharing a meal at our studio #AFundForJennie

You are all incredible, each and everyone of you in this food community. The Twitter hashtag #APieForMikey event appeared to kick start a movement, a staggering response of support and love for Jennie. Now Bloggers without Borders (founded by Maggy, Erika) are working tirelessly around the clock with Shauna to organize #AFundforJennie, a funding raising event to assist Jennie and her two girls.

We’re witnessing something truly amazing here: food bloggers from all around the world are participating in the most community driven event ever. You must visit the auction gallery page to see really comprehend the scope of how wonderful the event has blossomed too. This auction page is filled with offerings from the heart and full of love from worldwide bloggers.

Now it’s our turn. Our offering is a full day food photography/styling workshop, followed by a family style meal that we will all cook together and share. The location is at our brand new kitchen studio that is just 7 days old.

some vintage collectables in our gallery room

All funds from these ticket donations will go directly to Jennie at Bloggers without Borders. We (Todd & Diane) will personally fund the cost of hosting the workshop.

Please join us for a day of learning, friendship & community. Here is the agenda (subject to change): 

Our Studio Location: Orange County, CA. on Saturday October 15, 2011 8am-8pm

Morning Welcome: You will be greeted with a big bear hug, pumping music, light & fresh breakfast, a quick tour of our new studio & dancing (not required).

Discussions & topics: Storytelling, vision, finding your voice, making an impact with your photos, the power of an imperfect photo, lighting, basic principles.

Live demonstration: we will be demonstrating a live shoot, from ideas to storyboarding, workflow to final image.

Hands on time: you will have an opportunity to practice making your food photographs.

Lunch: Fresh meal cooked from our studio kitchen, more music & discussion of morning shoot

Discussion & topics: Basic Food Styling, how to integrate color, texture, movement to make a photo stand out, shooting on location

Live Demonstration: we will be demonstrating some dishes being styled, then photographed & editing

Hands on Time: you will have opportunity to practice styling, playing with props & photographing

Dinner: Family style fresh spring roll feast (gluten free) where we will grill on the table. We will all be cooking and eating together.

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*** Donation Details: The cost for this complete day is $1,000 per person, all funds go to Jennie.  Space is open to 10 attendees. If spaces fill up quick, then we might open up more spots.

How to sign up (please read carefully) : The workshop is limited to the first 10 people. Go to the Bloggers Without Borders Donation Site Here. Make your $1,000 donation by clicking the square BWOB Donation button on the side bar. Once you make your donation, you will receive a confirmation from pay pal. Send that confirmation to us at: td (at) Whiteonricecouple (dot) com to secure your spot in the workshop.

Thank you again and hope to see you there!

Our 7 day old kitchen studio where food photo/video shoots happen

play with our prop room and with Sierra

Other studio half filled with natural light to shoot in. & studio will be cleaned, promise!

Our live demonstrations will show you how we achieve these food shots

The #APieForMikey Video we made for Jennie & Mikey:

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