We are very excited to announce the giveaway of an introductory online food photography course from the wonderful folks at The Perfect Picture School of Photography!
- Have you been wanting to learn more about food photography?
- Do you need to improve your photography skills for your blog or portfolio?
- Would you like to create beautiful, awe inspiring photographs or just learn some great techniques for food photography?
- Have you ever wanted to take a photography class but can’t find the time to get out of the house to attend one? Then this online class is perfect for you and easy to take!
The Perfect Picture School of Photography is giving away a spot to one lucky student for the online food photography class “Introduction to Food Photography” taught by professional photographers Ron Goldman and Kathleen Clemons.
Course Description:
Are you as passionate about food as you are photography? Do you find yourself looking through culinary magazines and cookbooks, mesmerized by the photographs and wondering how the photographer was able to create such a stunning image? Have you tried to create similar images and not achieved the results you had hoped for? Perhaps you have started your own “food blog” and want your images to stand out among the thousands of others? Well, you are not alone.
Food contains all of the elements of design that make a striking image. Color, texture, pattern, line, shape, and form are all there, yet it seems almost impossible to correctly capture these elements in a way that makes the viewer NEED to eat what they are seeing.
How many time have you heard “You eat with your eyes first”? It’s true! A beautifully executed food image will make the viewer’s mouth water and their stomach rumble even if they are not fond of the dish that they are looking at!
It’s our job as food photographers to present images that make people stop, look, and feel like they just can’t go without what they are looking at.
How do we do that? In this class, you will discover that with a minimum amount of equipment, some basic composition and exposure rules, and a large dash of creativity, you too can shoot food images just like those you have admired.
Course Requirements:
Students should have a thorough understanding of their camera, aperture and shutter speed. A tripod is an absolute necessity! A digital or film SLR with a wide angle, normal, and short telephoto, macro lens or extension tubes will help you get the most from this class. All of the lessons will be shot using natural light so studio lighting is NOT necessary.
The Giveaway Details:
One lucky winner will get a spot in the class. This giveaway is open to everyone worldwide. It’s open to anyone who has a computer, internet service, a digital or film SLR camera, some food and desire to improve your photography skills! The giveaway will END at 5pm Pacific Standard Time on February 14th, 2010. The winner will be selected from the Random Number Generator and announced on February 15th, 2010.
The class starts on Friday, March 5th, 2010! This class is also offered on a monthly basis. Future dates TBA.
How do you get your chance to win this fantastic giveaway? Just enter a comment to this post on sallycameron.com.
Get a bonus second entry to this giveaway by Twittering it, blogging about it, or putting it on your Facebook page. Just Twitter this giveaway or write about it on your blog or Facebook page and comment again on sallycameron.com with a link to your Twitter or post (as proof) and you’ll have a second chance at this drawing! Maxiumum of two entries per person. Good luck! Comment below, Twitter, Facebook or blog about it now!
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Cool I need this class. I hope I win this would be great
I have also tweeted thge contest and posted it to my face book page.
http://www.facebook.com/jelo45110?ref=profile
http://twitter.com/jelo45110
Good luck to everyone that enters the contest,
I love these food pics. Gorgeous! I would love to be able to take pictures like these. Thanks for offering this giveaway.
I need this class soooo much. It sure would help me publish some cook books!
Wow, I would love to come to this!
What a great sounding course – count me in as interested! http://twitter.com/Kirsty2715
This would be great to win.
Hi Sally:
I want to win! I want to win! I’m an amateur, passionate photographer. I even went to Phoenix a year ago and studied one-on-one for three days with Phil Douglis (check him out on pbase). I use a Nikon D90, a telephoto lens, and tripod. I won American Humane’s national photo contest in September! The pic is on the home page of my web site for my PR firm (www.mclanerieger.com). My newest fave is on theroguesgallery.wordpress.com.
I tend to take food pix when I’m in a foreign country, find the food unusual and happen to have my camera with me. Such as duck omelette in Paris or the Mexican version of French toast in Cabo San Lucas. I was the spokesperson for a huge international restaurant chain, which was one tough job. I’ve earned this class! Ha ha.
The food pictures on your site are awesome. They inspire me.
Sally: I just wrote about the contest on my Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/?ref=home
Thanks for offering this cool giveaway.
This is something I’d love to learn! I am a photographer with a major love of cooking. This is something that would be perfect for me.
Oh my! This is a wonderful opportunity I would love to be a part of!
I also wrote about this on my twitter page: http://twitter.com/brittty/statuses/8437291916
Your photos look terrific. Definitely something I want to learn.
I hope I make it to the class! I usually take food pictures with my boyfriend’s iPhone or Nikkon SLR. He does the cooking, I do the blogging!
This is a great giveaway! I SOOOO need help with food photography! Cooking is easy. Taking pictures of the food is not!
Sounds like a great opportunity, hope I win!
A wonderful opportunity that I can only dream of right now…. best of luck everyone!
Sally,
A wonderful opportunity to perhaps improve my skills. Posting to FB as well.
I would love to take this class….I’ve never tried to photograph food!!!
You’ve been Tweeted!!!
http://twitter.com/DonnerE
This is an amazing opportunity! I’d LOVE to take this class at PPSOP!!!!
i just posted your link on my FB page…
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/?ref=home
Thanks everyone! I wish you could all win as it’s a terrific class! Ron is a great teacher and photographer. Even if you don’t win, at least you know where you can go to take the course – PPSOP!
I blogged and tweeted about the upcoming class and your blog’s sweepstakes:
http://myboyfriendsblog.com/online-food-photography-class
http://twitter.com/mybfsblog
Good luck to everyone!
This is such a great opportunity. Would love to win
Cheers,
Hélène
I want to win this contest…. I am doing the Project 365 on Flickr and am about to run out of things to photograph !
Here’s my 2nd chance to WIN
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1042173484
Would love to have a chance at this class and add it to my list of services. Thanks for the opportunity Sally.
A great giveaway…photographing food would be fun.
This is a great website! Thanks for the opportunity to enter this contest.
Looks fabulous!
Spending some time in Provence this summer. This course would prepare me to thoroughly enjoy and capture the essence of the cuisine.
Tweeted: http://twitter.com/Megin/status/8478866106
My two favourite passions – photography & cooking. Love your site and ready to try your great recipes.. Would love to win this. The class sounds incredible..
Posted link on my FB..
Annette
Food is my love and Photography is my passion! As a chef I love the art of preparing food, as a photographer I seem to not photograph food. I would love to win this class to incorporate my two passions in life.
Zoe
Al – You are going to LOVE Provence! We were so blessed to be there in both 2008 and 2009. We have so many beautiful photographs to weave into future posts. Have a wonderful trip! Where are you going? I can’t wait to go back. But I think Italy will come first.
Joy, joy, joy! What a great class. Thanks so much for offering this giveaway!
Sounds great!!
Tweeted about your giveaway at http://twitter.com/terriburnor/status/8485728234
I am just a foodie who happens to be a food editor at a small Texas newspaper. I know a little about a lot, and am desperate to increase my knowledge in food photography and improve our paper and online presence. I love what I do and would be an extremely humbled and dedicated student. Thank you.
Thank you for your generosity!
And I just posted it to my facebook wall http://www.facebook.com/launate
Thank you for offering this class as a giveaway!
I love photography and I love cooking that’s why this is a great idea and opportunity. I like the fact that any one in the world can do the course! Thanks!
I was just talking to someone about this course a few weeks ago saying I would love to take it. What a great opportunity!
Thanks!
Yay! This may actually help do the food justice! My photos look like they were taken on a cell phone camera
Take 2!
http://twitter.com/EatsnSweets
As a regular PPSOP student and passionate photographer, I am thrilled to find about this giveaway. I hope I win
I love the succulent food photos and would love to learn more about how to create them!
I would like to learn more about food photography.
Sabrina – Food photography is tough! More difficult than anyone realizes. The class will help a lot. For every picture you see on our site of food, probably 100 were taken. We were not completely happy with the orange cake shot that was posted, so we re-shot it last night. It took us at least 3 hours to get what we wanted. My kitchen table area is often set up like a studio.
I would love to take this course! I have been practicing and soaking up all that I can learn in this field. It is fascinating and so much fun.
wow cool! i’d love to attend this course online and even willing to lose sleep over it (i’m from NZ)!
Wow, NZ! That’s on our travel list. Great place to shoot and blog from! beautiful country! Good luck!
Thanks to you, Sally, Kathleen, and Ron for this contest opportunity.
I’ve taken the other courses taught by Kathleen and Ron on Perfect Picture School of Photography and they’re great – both the courses and the instructors. I’d really appreciate the opportunity to win this contest and take their Food Photography course.
Kathleen and Ron are great teachers, PPSOP is a tremendous school. I love food, I love to shoot, can there be a better combination. Sign me up
Wow. I could only dream that such a course would exist. Hopefully this is the lucky entry!
Wonderful idea. Wonderful opportunity too. Can’t wait till 15th Feb.
Thank you.
I almost jumped out of my seat when I saw this on David Lebovitz site (which by the way is how I found your site…lovely)
Crossing my fingers!
I am not a blogger or photographer. I am an avid cook and my family is always asking for recipes, so this year I decided to try a few new recipes a month, take a picture and put them together into a cookbook for Christmas gifts this year. I ran into a problem, though. My food pictures are horrible!! I would love to take this class and learn how to make my Christmas gifts look even better!
Thanks for the opportunity.
I could definitely use this course!
a second chance…
still crossing my fingers!
http://5footgourmet.blogspot.com/2010/02/food-photography-online-course-giveaway.html
How exciting to earn a free spot. I am not a great cook, but love to eat, love to photograph, and am looking for my next career, so I am open to new idea and am excited to enter your contest. Will post it on my FB too.
Would love a chance to take this class!
I would love love love to take this course! It sounds so amazing and educational!
I only wish my pictures could look as good as my food tastes. I want this class!
awesome, would love to take this class!!
Boy do I need this course! It would be awesome to be able to enhance my blog with better pictures!
Thanks!
Hi Sally,
Thank you so much for offering this wonderful opportunity. I would absolutely love to be the winner! I’ll post on my blog too.
http://www.extra-relish.blogspot.com/
Best, Pascale
Hi Pascale – Your blog is lovely! Beautiful photographs and feel. Looks and sounds like you are in England. I’ll book mark your site so I can keep up with you. Thanks for your comment!
I’m working towards becoming a food photographer and stylist. This class would certainly help!
Wow! Great freebie, would love to take the class.
What a fabulous opportunity!
I would love to improve my food photos!
I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
I tweeted the giveaway!
http://twitter.com/createdbydiane/statuses/8600680542
I’m @createdbydiane
Oh me! ME! I need that course
I tweeted also!
Definitely throw my name in the hat.
Just posted it on my blog for another entry. Keeping my fingers crossed. Well right after I finish typing this post!
http://www.potroastandapplesauce.com/?p=100
i sure hope you’ll consider the 5footgourmet for this class. She is a talented up and coming gourmet cook and photographer and a joy to work with. I dont have any equipment or I would enter myself. I have always been facinated with cooking and the photographs of the food items. Maybe someday, I will be able to afford the camera supplies and will be able to enroll. Thank you for a beautiful website. I’ll look forward to your newsletters in the meantime… Thank you!!
p.s. I will post this on my facebook however to help you and if there is a scholarship for your classes with loner equipment, I would sure be interested
Thank you!!
Trish – Thanks for your kind words and good luck to you. Unfortunately we don’t have loaners! You might check out renting a camera in the future if you decide to take a class.
What a wonderful opportunity! Thanks for the great giveaway, I would love to take this class!
I hope mine’s the lucky random number. I would love to learn more details about food photography.
I am looking for a new.. career…. due to health issues….(!)
i am NOT able to work as a chef… anymore…
I think I can handle this…
I truly NEED to create! THIS looks perfect !!
Thank you SO much for the chance !
hug
agp
I would love to attend your class! I also just noticed you’ll be at Camp BlogAway! Looking forward to meeting you then!
It’s all mine folks…it’s alllllll MINE!
Thanks for the opportunity.
This is a very exciting and generous opportunity. Thank you for giving us neophytes the chance to improve (or, at least your truly – I should speak for myself as a new food blogger…).
Thanks so much for this giveaway. I need much help and would love the opportunity. Good luck to all of us.
This would be a wonderful addition to my ongoing learning process. Hope to be the ONE!!!
I would absolutely love the opportunity to take this class. Thanks!
This class sounds fun! I’ve always loved food, but I have just begun paying more attention to it recently. In the past, I would just take pictures of food I ate, as a memory of all the goodness that went into my tummy. I decided to quit my job and start a new 2 weeks ago. I’ve been thinking about food and cooking now that I have more time. I’m still figuring it out, but like many people, food, family, travel and photography are staples in my life. And thanks to whiteonricecouple.com, I found out about your site and this photography class. Excited!
P.S. Feel free to check out my blog. It’s still a work in progress, but any visitor/comments are welcome!
http://www.ihuglion.blogspot.com
THanks!
I would love to win a place on this course because I am one of life’s procrastinators. Like probably every applicant, food, photography and travel are my hobbies. But although I manage to get on with eating(!), I’ve never made the same effort with photography. I spend my life thinking I can’t do things that friends tell me I can and I think knowing that you were investing in me, would want to earn that gift back by making you glad you had. So fingers crossed.
Oh, this is a wonderful giveaway!! I love food photography and I’m constantly trying to improve my photography skills. I’d enrolled for a photography course but it was cancelled
This would be a great replacement! 
This is Fantastic! I love cooking, eating, and enjoy being in and photographing natures finest, and this combines all these wonderful ingredients for all our senses
I can’t believe all these responses and I am just sending this information out to all my friends and family. I have taken lots of pictures of chocolates and candies for my friends shop Chocolatopia. I would love to learn more especially the pictures where you just want to lick the page they are so wonderfully real looking. Kent does that so well! Miss you guys.
I just tweeted about this wonderful giveaway! See my tweet here: http://twitter.com/CookYourDream/status/8903844744
Tweeting about this contest. What a wonderful giveaway!
Would love to attend this course. I love all things food and Photog! Crossing my fingers!
Here’s a link to my tweet on twitter for my second chance!
http://twitter.com/PotsandPains
I would love to win this class. I make great food … just need the best pics of it.
Thanks!
Shirley
I tweeted.
Shirley
What a great opportunity!
I am totally entering for this, I could really use a lot of help and a photography class is just what I need! AWESOME contest!
And here is my tweet! https://twitter.com/jenncuisine/status/8915432411
I hope I am lucky!
What a great giveaway!
Great giveaway. I love food photography!
I tweeted:
http://twitter.com/lifeglutenfree/status/8915656223
And I tweeted it, too: http://twitter.com/stacyblue/status/8915669169
Here’s my comment!
And here’s my tweet
http://twitter.com/eatlivtravwrite/status/8915819283
RT @diannej: Enter by Feb. 14 to win free online fd photog class. Please pass on! http://bit.ly/bt272T
such a great giveaway. i definitely need a class in food photography!
I also tweeted about this – http://www.twitter.com/withanapron
This would be a lovely prize, there is always room for improvement.
I’d love a chance to enter my name for the giveaway for the food photography course. Thanks!
Thank you for this wonderful offer.
Here’s my tweet link:
http://twitter.com/thefoodographer
for my second entry.
What a cool class! I’d love to take it. Thanks to Katherine Gill for alerting me to it!
Thanks to Dianne Jacob for passing along the link! Sounds like a wonderful way to learn.
Here is my tweet for the second chance:
http://twitter.com/emilyolson80
What a generous offer !
I can definitely use the help.
This is a great opportunity! Would love to win the class!
Tweeted about for second chance: http://twitter.com/cezsv
PPSOP has excellent online courses. I’d love a chance to win!
Beautiful photographs on the site! Would love the chance to take the class.
this would be great! will tweet too!
Hi Sally,
I would love to get a spot in your food photography class plus more information about your upcoming classes. My pictures are ok but when I look at other bloggers mine are just ordinary, they don’t stand out. I’d like to learn how to make my food photos jump out and capture everyones eye. I’m hoping you will be able to teach that to me.
I hope to hear back from you.
Warm Regards,
Vicki
I’d LOVE to take another class with Kathleen and Ron!
Hi Sally this sounds like such a fantastic opportunity. I would definitely love to win this one!… will also tweet this as well!
Love your photos and would love to learn more!
I would love to win!!
@foodphotog
I know my photography skills could use some improvement. Thanks for this giveaway.
-Robin
Link to my tweet
http://twitter.com/hippoflambe/status/9035937663
I’d love this opportunity to improve my food photography!
It would be amazing to take pictures that could capture the masterpieces created in the kitchen. I look forward to an opportunity to learn from you.
Well, why not try for this lovely opportunity? Maybe I’ll get lucky! And thanks to the guys at http://whiteonricecouple.com/ for passing this on
Laura
What a nice giveaway!
I love food & photography so I had to enter this. What a great opportunity!!
Link to my tweet:
http://twitter.com/ap269/
Getting real instructions so I’m not just bumbling through my blog pics would be extra awesome.
Tweet!! http://twitter.com/Yumarama
Here’s my tweet: http://twitter.com/Trissalicious/status/9030497736
This would be an amazing opportunity! I’m constantly working to better my photography and would love to participate in the class.
http://twitter.com/DianasaurDishes/status/9093310931
There’s my tweet!
Fabulous contest – I’m in!
Here’s my tweet!
http://bit.ly/aCW5Kz
Stunning photo, superb giveaway.
What an amazing opportunity. I’d love to learn more about food photography.
Here’s a link to my tweet.
http://twitter.com/something_shiny/statuses/9097856418
Thanks!
This contest is a great idea. Thanks for the opportunity!
hope I win the spot, sounds like fun. tracey
We’re just starting our blog and loving taking the photographs: it would be such a help to get expert advice from your class!
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