What's covered on the day?

Photography

How to photograph food using multiple lights.

• Opportunity to use a professional Elinchrom Ring flash for food photography.

• Useful equipment for food photography & styling.

• Selecting props & backgrounds.

• Lighting modifiers for food photography.

• Useful tips for food photography.

• Photographing food according to a brief.

• Flat lay food photography techniques.

• Dark low-key techniques.

• Creative symmetry and food styling.

• Simple post-production techniques for food photography.

• Look at the underlying principles of light such as Quality, Quantity, Colour, Contrast and Direction, how to recognise, appreciate and ultimately control it, using daylight and professional portable lighting kit.

• Develop a practical understanding of typical lighting setups, from one light to three light scenarios, including the concepts of "key" light, fill, rim and background lighting.

• Have an introduction to metering and location flash.

• Work with a food enthusiast and learn how to style food.

Cooking

You will learn how to cook beautiful Punjabi food with a food enthusiast, meet new friends to co-create something very unique and memorable?

You will be greeted on arrival with flavoured poppadums cooked fresh in front of you, and a signature Greek Chilli Mint Yoghurt Dip. Teas and Coffees will be provided throughout the day. After cooking and preparing the food, we will enjoy making our flatbreads and sitting down to share the meal.

You will learn to cook authentic Punjabi Cuisine from the North-Western region of India. Nutritious and delicious with health-giving spices. There will be a meat and a vegan/vegetarian main course. Indian food is typically enjoyed within a restaurant setting or as a takeaway. Purdy brings the Punjab to you by teaching you how to cook food traditionally enjoyed by Punjabi households.

Prior experience:It is assumed that those attending will have a basic knowledge of photography and have an understanding of aperture, shutter speeds and exposure, not essential as I will cover this on the day. All the cooking skills you need will also be covered on the day, aprons and equipment are included in the experience.

Suggested equipmentYour DSLR/Mirrorless camera.If you have a range of lenses please email us after making a booking and we will recommend best lenses for this course.

Who is this course for?This course is for anyone who is looking for new directions for their photography, learn about food photography, build a portfolio, would like to enhance their technical and creative skills, or maybe thinking of purchasing own lights and would like to have an introduction Portrait and night photography using professional lighting.

Anybody that wants to learn how to cook beautiful Punjabi food. Purdy Giles was born in the Punjab region of India, and arrived in the UK at the age of 2, where she was raised in a traditional Sikh family in the Midlands. The inherent conflict of two cultures lead to her leaving her parental home the age of 16. This resulted in her being ex-communicated and estranged from her family and community for 41 years.

She is a non-practising Social worker, giving up her career at the end of 2017 to focus on reclaiming her Cultural Heritage and improve her health and wellbeing. She retained her passion for sharing the cuisine of her homeland with her family, her friends and her colleagues, but always felt the loss of her community and family. Embarking on her current path, she has had the opportunity to visit her relatives in India in January 2019 and this lead to reunification with her parents in August 2019.

She feels that by reclaiming her Cultural Identity in a way that honours her as a first-generation Asian female, she has come home to herself. She gives inspirational talks about her "journey" with live cooking demos, facilitates workshops at her home as well as alternative venues, and she is now able to cater for parties and functions, following her 5* Food Safety certificate awarded in January 2020.

This workshop is co-hosted by Award-winning artist and Photographer Jamie House British Photography Awards Finalist 2020. Jamie is a qualified and experienced Tutor with a PGCE and teaches nationwide.Jamie has more than 15 years of teaching experience! And 20 years working as a photographer.

To date, Jamie`s work has been featured in publications and exhibitions worldwide, he has talked at the Photographer's Gallery London about his work.

Jamie's work has been featured in:New Scientist magazine (UK), Daily Telegraph (UK), PHOTO ARTS Book (USA), QUAD book project (UK), Peep Contemporary Art Magazine, Ersatz Camera Work Catalogue (CA), Supermassive Black Hole Photographic Journal (UK), Blotbook, GUP Photography Journal (NL), Recycle Art Catalogue (BX), London Independent Photography Magazine (UK), Without Lenses (USA), Inscape Magazine (UK) Umter (DE) Excerpt Magazine (AU)

Price:We have tried to keep the costs as low as possible to provide excellent value for money.£35 per head to cover food, ingredients and all-day tuition, teas and coffees. £35 per head for all-day expert photography tuition and use of professional Elinchrom flash kit, digital resources to keep, and a 1 hr one to one Zoom portfolio review and post-production photoshop techniques for food photography.

Recipes are e-mailed to participants after the event.

Gift Vouchers for christmas presents can be organised.

In line with Covid 19 safety measures, the places are strictly limited.