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  • Boston Tea Party – Food Photography

    Boston Tea Party – Food Photography

    Boston Tea Party are refreshing their menu for the summer, and we had a lot of tasty dishes to photograph. With BTP producing ethical, honest food, we also like to keep the food manipulation down to a minimum, leaving it to the chef to produce food that’s exactly the same as what’s actually served to customers (everything had been weighed to ensure a precise portion size). We also avoid any food photography ‘tricks’, like PVC glue for milk, or painting roast chicken with brown dye to give it that crispy look (honestly).

    The photography below is of real edible food produced by a BTP chef in a standard kitchen, our job was to make sure it was shown as accurately and in as good light as possible. We think they’ve done a fantastic job with their new menu, and shall be paying a visit to a café soon to try a dish or two out.

    The later part of the day we also photographed the front of two BTP Cafes and some other marketing materials too.

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  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party asked for us to make our way down south to photograph a new location of one of their cafes, and also – on a separate day – a few new menu items ready for Xmas. For the Christmas items, we shot on location in their staff-room which had a table with a similar style to what’s in their cafes. As all around was office furniture and members of staff, choice of angles was limited. I enjoy having to find a solution to a ‘problem’, it often brings new angles, focal lengths, heights (I was up top a full sized ladder for some of these!) and ideas, which is a great way of producing photography that holds people’s attention.

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  • Food Photography with Boston Tea Party

    Food Photography with Boston Tea Party

    Last month we were back with Boston Tea Party in Plymouth to photograph their new menu. Working in their large, newly opened and beautiful Plymouth cafe, we selected a corner to work from that wouldn’t interfere with their customers and got to work, with their chef bringing new dishes up for us to photograph in situ. Making the most of our corner, we used the blue seating and warm brown table to add to each photograph. Leaving large areas for the marketing team to add text too.

    Previous photography by us is now being used throughout the cafes countrywide, the results are great and we’re looking forward to working with them again soon.

  • Food and Location Photography in Birmingham with BTP

    Food and Location Photography in Birmingham with BTP

    Having covered a few of BTP’s other cafés previously, I was asked to head up to Birmingham to shoot food photograph for their new dishes. I also headed over to another of their cafés nearby to shoot a few location photos there too. You can see some of my work on their homepage (as of April 2015) with more populating their brochures and marketing in general.

  • Boston Tea Party Bristol Cafe Photography in Cheltenham

    Boston Tea Party Bristol Cafe Photography in Cheltenham

    Boston Tea Party asked that we photograph some of their drinks and take a few shots of their café in Cheltenham.

    The photography took place at their Cheltenham café whilst it was open and serving customers. I used a few seats in the corner of the café to set up and control our lighting balanced with the large side windows of natural light.

    Here’s a few from the shoot.

     

  • Café Photography for Boston Tea Party in Bristol

    Café Photography for Boston Tea Party in Bristol

    Boston Tea Party is a cool, personal and cosy café environment with each of their cafés having a unique style and feeling that has been lovingly crafted by the owners. I documented two of their Cafés in Bristol, capturing the staff, customers and ambience of the locations in the same day. In addition to the documentary approach, some natural food photography was also on the cards.

    The slideshow has some example photography from the day.

     

  • Barista coffee training at the Town Mill Bakery, Lyme Regis

    Barista coffee training at the Town Mill Bakery, Lyme Regis

    The Town Mill Bakery are always looking forward, never resting on their laurels and as part of their continued progress, Rory from Origin Coffee visited and trained everyone at their Lyme Regis bakery in the art of making great coffee. The morning started with Rory explaining the complex world of coffee, from how humidity and temperature can affect coffee right though to grind size, tamping, water temperature and then on to milk and creating the perfect microfoam for lattes. I was there to document the morning, keeping out of everyones way but capturing everything for future internal training and marketing material.

    Being that I’m massively in to coffee, I picked up a few tips from Rory and the first thing I did when I got back to the studio was to grind up some sweetshop from Squaremile and brew myself an Aeropress coffee, before sitting down to process the photos.

    – Henley

     

     

  • Bakery Photography in Poundbury

    Bakery Photography in Poundbury

    ‘Our Bakeries’ are reworking their lunch menu and asked us to come along and document the new menu being made and the final dishes. They are to be used both for marketing and internally so the other bakeries are able to see how each dish should look to keep standards high through all their bakeries.

  • Alexandra Hotel Photography

    Alexandra Hotel Photography

    The Alexandra hotel asked us back to photograph their dining room as they have recently had it refurbished and wanted to update their website and marketing material to reflect this.

    We also photographed the gardens with their fantastic views over Lyme Bay and the tower within the grounds.

     

  • First Weekend in the Slaughterhouse Bakery

    First Weekend in the Slaughterhouse Bakery

    As previously posted, ‘Our Bakeries’ recently moved not far from their old location and we covered the photography of the new bakery being built and moving in equipment.

    We were asked to return to photograph on the first weekend they were open, we decided on the Sunday as the local market was on and wanted to get a few photos with this in place. Without even advertising, not even a single sign outside, the bakery was nearing full capacity. With two of us moving around, documenting the ambiance and hustle of a fresh October day we were able to seize the moment and bring it across in our photography.

  • Food and Baker Photography For The Town Mill Bakery in Lyme Regis

    Food and Baker Photography For The Town Mill Bakery in Lyme Regis

    We love to shoot food photography and were commissioned by The Town Mill Bakery in Lyme Regis, Dorset to take some photos of their new breads and of their baker, Jorge. Mainly for their website and new signs to be made as well as to add to their expanding library of photos they hold for marketing/brochures and other promotional materials.

    On a more personal note, we would highly recommend dropping in for a coffee and piece of cake, it’s a great experience.