photography
I don’t think food blogging would be nearly so fun if I didn’t love photography. In fact, I love photography more than I love food. What I enjoy capturing most is nature. I do a lot of that.
I also take pictures of just about anything that appeals to me. You can follow what I’m seeing on my photo blog. If you are interested in purchasing a print, please visit my gallery for details.
The connection between photography, cooking, and blogging wasn’t apparent when I first started blogging, but it fell into place rather naturally because I find food beautiful.
For me, food photography is just another form of landscape photography – more like a mini-landscape, if you will. That’s my approach anyway.
I currently shoot with Nikon digital bodies, lenses, and flashes.
My biggest pet peeve is those people who think an expensive camera will make them a great photographer. A bad photographer who purchases a high-end camera is merely going to take bad photographs in high resolution.
I’m uncomfortable with some of the food photography advice I see on many food blogs and forums because it’s pretty myopic stuff written by a lot of people who don’t know enough to know that they don’t know enough. Photography is an art, not a set of instructions. The best advice I’ve heard or can offer to someone who wants to improve their photography is to practice, learn, and practice some more. That’s true for most things. It’s a feedback loop. In this day of digital photography, the learning curve can be a fast one. Experiment. Cultivate your own style. Most of all, have fun.
May 12th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Jenyu,
You are a great photographer. Keep up the skills and good work!:)
Sincerely,
Margaret
June 18th, 2009 at 6:48 am
Your photography is stunning! I love the way you combine your landscape photos with your food photos. Thanks for commenting on my blog-Cafe LynnyLu.
July 8th, 2009 at 8:53 am
wowweeeee.
lovely pictures. What’s the resolution of your camera?
July 14th, 2009 at 9:01 am
flo – currently: 10 MP
August 5th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Is there any chance you could be persuaded to create some desktop wall papers? I’m a mountain girl living in the city, so I love having wide open pictures of nature on my desktop to help me feel a little less claustrophobic.
August 9th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Pinky – well, in light of everything on my plate, it’s unlikely I will have the time to do this before the year is out. You are welcome to download the photos from the web to put on your desktop (they are low res, but some folks don’t mind that).
September 10th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Oops, I asked the camera question before stumbling on this page – still enjoying your pictures! ;)
September 28th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
It was so great meeting you at the conference. I couldn’t help but drool over your lenses :)
You are quite talented!
October 7th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Jenyu,
I picked up your site via someone on twitter. Your photographs are amazing! Real talent girl…real talent. I don’t bookmark many photographers…but his site, definitely.
Sofia
October 14th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
I am in need of someone to photograph food for my website. Do you have more information? I’m in Thornton. You pics are amazing!
October 16th, 2009 at 8:11 am
your food pics are awesooooome!
i need a better camera :)
November 7th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
My wife heard about your site from Margaret Darling… a friend of her’s here in town (Pagosa Springs). I heard the photography was good so just checked it out. Indeed… the photography is exceptional! I’ve never shot food myself but loved looking at your stuff anyway. I might even try some food shots now. Anyway, thanks for sharing.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
I am in Parker and would love to learn more about your photography workshop. Food photography is something I really would like to get better at. Please tell me more!
February 1st, 2010 at 9:58 am
Liz – I can’t give you too many details as we are still hashing them out. The workshop website and registration will go online (hopefully) sometime this month. I will be sure to announce it on urb, twitter, and facebook.
February 16th, 2010 at 7:04 am
Love your photography! I also love nature & taking pictures. Photography is something I’ve dabbled in all my life, but have yet to really learn much about the settings on my point and shoot. Now I am in the market for a new camera….dslr is not in the budget yet. Plus I kind of think it’s something out of my scope right now. I have 3 girls and keep quite busy. But I am thinking of purchasing my point and shoot from a local camera store that includes many free classes in the purchase. I think I’m better off learning all I can manually on a point and shoot I can/will take everywhere before branching out to something bigger. Do you have one you’d recommend? I’m mainly thinking food shots and pics of my girls day to day as well as nature. Thanks so much!
February 16th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Denise – I don’t have a p&s that I can recommend. I think there are many good ones out there. I have found that the act of researching various models helps you figure out what it is you want which will ultimately point you to a few choice models. I suggest going to dpreview.com to check out the reviews. Good luck.