The management at The Lewis Partnership asked us the other week if we could photograph their complete wedding breakfast menu for them with a view of creating new, full colour wedding brochures and online guides – and also materials for the chefs too.

We of course said ‘yes’ and the photos have come out awesomely. Here are just a couple to whet your appetites – and for the photographers who follow this blog the set-up is the last photo, and I’ve also described a bit of the methodology behind the shoot too…

Here is the set-up for the shoot. As the natural life wasn’t available we had to use studio lighting, but the quality of the lighting we were able to produce was awesome!
Essentially the whole rig is very simple – there’s a single main light, an Elinchrom Ranger-Q into the umbrella above where I was obviously standing to take the photgraphs, with two speedlight, one coming in from a low angle on the right, and another coming from above giving a high contrast light which really made the food glisten.
All of the lights were triggered from a single Elinchrom Radio Transmitter with receivers on each of the speedlight, which were incidentally mounted on Manfrotto Nano Stands with the Lovegrove Flash Bracket on-top, and it was a super-simple system and fired perfectly every single time.
All photos were taken on my new favourite camera – the Canon 5DmarkII

I will share the brochure here as soon as it is completed in early 2010…

sj.p