Food & Interiors Shoot at the Hilton on Park Lane

Last week, I completed a really nice photoshoot for the London Hilton on Park Lane. 

We shot a combination of food and interiors in a lovely suite at the top of the hotel tower. We started with breakfast, laid on a tray on the four-poster bed - which made for lovely interior shots too - and then breakfast set upon the round table in the dining room of the suite. The images have all the elegance of a gorgeous hotel breakfast on a white table cloth, complete with savoury dishes, pastries, fruit, tea, coffee and champagne. 

Then I shot two whole afternoon teas. One for Valentine's Day which is fast approaching, and the other one for Mother's Day. Both featured lovely little sweet treats on a cake stand, with plenty of red, pink, hearts and chocolate. Scones with clotted cream and jam obviously featured too, as did champagne and tea. The florist had prepared two beautiful bouquets of roses, one pink and white with plenty of foliage, the other one with deep red roses. As I have already photographed this suite for afternoon tea quite a few times, I tried for different angles. The window sill worked quite well with a lovely view of the Shard. As well as a straight-on view of the coffee table with the sofa and rest of the suite behind. 

Last but not least, I shot a couple of savoury dishes which will also feature on the Valentine's Day menu of the hotel. One was a starter of courgettes risotto with julienned zucchini, and the second one was a salmon tartare in a curry sauce. As always, lovely to be back at the Hilton on Park lane for some beautiful Food & Interiors Photography.

The Naked Marshmallow Company - Christmas Shoot

Last week, I did the most fabulous Food photo shoot for the Naked Marshmallow Company. They wanted their new Christmas collection photographed so I arranged the whole photo shoot which I did at my home studio in East London's Shoreditch. 

Arranging the prop styling and hiring myself, as well as the sourcing of ingredients, I set up the studio for lifestyle and pack shot photography, as the client wanted both. Over the course of 4 days, I shot not only the Christmas limited edition but also their whole range of products and kits which they sell in boxes on their website. 

It was a really fun shoot, and I especially enjoyed shooting the Christmas collection, creating a whole little universe for each flavour, which entailed a lot of styling. I have almost always done my own Food Styling and this is something which I think is such an important part of the photographs, that I like to be involved with it as much as possible. On this occasion, I used some of the props hired from the Topham Street prop shop as well as my own. Over the past years I have been accumulating a vast collection of crockery, glasses, cutlery and linen, buying them here and there whenever something catches my eye. I also have an extensive array of Christmas decorations, which made it really nice to play around with the different images. 

Coming back to the photo shoot for the Naked Marshmallow Company, they had developed some really special flavours for Christmas: mint & chocolate chips, candy cane, humbug, gingerbread and my personal favourite, s'mores. The hot chocolate kits with marshmallow toppers were really cute and great to shoot too. You can see some of the pictures on my Food Portfolio page and on my Instagram.