I must admit that I am a bit of a foodie, hence my love of photographing food and anything to do with it. Having spent the last twenty years as a photographer, I have learnt many of the skills needed for good food photography. Earlier this year I was on BBC TV’s Ready Steady Cook show as a food photographer, and my food photography has gone from strength to strength since.

The types of cameras I have used over the years started with large format film, now I use the same type of large format camera but with a 39 million pixel high-end digital back fitted to a sliding plate on the back of the camera, this still gives me all the perspective control I used to have but with vastly increased quality and artistic possibilities.

In spring 2009 I was commissioned to photograph a range of tomatoes for a leading UK importer. The brief was open, I could do just about anything as long as the tomatoes looked stunning and fitted the crop for each page in a book that was to be produced. I chose to shoot them on a dark background to show the colours off at their best, and with minimal propping so we could produce a series of photos that had a common style.
The final photographs went down very well with my client and their clients, here’s the feedback:

“I meant to email you this morning because the day went amazingly well. The book
was a terrific success and the supermarket team told me that the photos were "out of
this world" (name check to you and contact details included)

I am really pleased that I found your website!

The best news is that I have already been told by my MD that I can do it again
next year so consider yourself booked!

I am really hopeful that I can use the some of the images in a publicity
campaign that we will run with the supermarket to launch 2 new Finest lines in November.
They are talking about potentially running some adds in the foodie mags (Olive,
Delicious, Good Food etc) - I will keep you posted.
Thanks again Darrin”