As a contemporary lifestyle and wedding photographer I usually turn down commissions for work which I don’t think I can do justice to (landscapes, products etc.) but I was intrigued recently by a request to photograph some cakes.
In a local village (Epworth, by the way) a new business had started up providing bespoke celebration cakes and hand made chocolates – they also opened up a lovely little coffee shop on the premises. This turned out to be something of a blessing as it provided me with the perfect venue for client meetings – albeit it at a risk to the ever expanding waistline.
during the course of one of my visits to the coffee shop I got into conversation with David the owner – and happened to mention that I was a photographer, he immediately got interested in my ability to provide him with new imagery for his website and advertising. I did point out to him that I didn’t do food photography and that I was a contemporary photographer – this didn’t put him off a bit and he wanted his cakes photographing my way.
So here we are, Jonathan David cakes photographed the Steve Oatway way !!
Of course this is all very well and good – but I was there primarily to photograph the celebration cake. But I didn’t want to photograph cake – I wanted to put across the ‘idea’ of cake, I wanted to suggest cake without actually photographing a whole one – so off I went down my own little path
And one more
So is this a different way to photograph cakes ?? – probably not, I’m sure it’s been done loads of times before, but it was fun for me and made for a few eye-catching images for the shop.
And where is the shop I hear you all asking, whilst trying to decide if you want Torte or Scone – In Epworth, North Lincolnshire – Jonathan David
