Nelly Le Comte

Studio photography with a soft box and background light. Several images were needed to get the right rose pouring into the glass and from the bottle. Compilation with two selected images in Post production to achieve the photograph.

Drinks, light and shadows have been a favourite way of shooting for clients for many years and this image of @champagne_tsarine lend itself perfectly due to the interesting glass of the bottle. A studio light with snoot to give the long stemmed glass the shadow plus to allow those delicious champagne bubbles to appear. Plus a soft box to illuminate the travertine background and add shadow to the bottle.

Photographing porridge is always a challenge, creating a warm feeling and keeping a lovely shine on the creamy oats by using a soft box to simulate early morning light and create soft shadows to add texture to the porridge. The shadows are kept soft by using a second soft box to soften the shadows and to add a glimmer of light to the lemon and banana.

Thank you @foodelia to award my submission.

Also congratulations to Irina @sitnikoffphotography for winning an award with a stunning hard light photograph. Irina is one of my students and the image a result from an assignment during her food photography course. It gives me an enormous pleasure to see my students win awards!

Enhancing the colours of the mushroom and duck breast with the dark plate and the dark handmade background. The chef's plating @jordanstaniford with the ochre tones of the dressing brings an artful display to the food. Restaurant photoshoot on location @crystalbrookbyron

Studio photography with food stylist @janetmitchellstylist working on beer. Being creative with one @bowens light in a way it illuminates the food and highlights the beer in the glass. Ask me how ???
Photographed with Canon @canonaustralia
Loving the golden toned calamari which certainly was a treat to eat afterwards, along with the cool crips beer.⁠
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Perfectly planned the shoot on a Friday, so drinks allowed.⁠

Affogato photographed in studio for @windingroaddistillingco The 50 mile coffee liqueur and the coastal cane pure single rum combined with espresso coffee and vanilla ice-cream. Hot and cold ingredients mixed means being fast in taking the image.

Studio photography with softbox and spotlight to create soft shadows. A blood orange and turmeric, cardamon cocktail created with botanical shrubs, photographed for @pyewacketstraditional

Late afternoon sunlight at the end of a full day shoot, the light was at the right angle to enhance the long stems of the glasses, the ice-cubes melting quickly in the afternoon sun. Playing with shadows has had my interest for a long time a technique I firstly worked with predominantly in the studio with full control but in the end is all about seeing the possibilities of light and how to work with sunlight.

Studio photography test shot the day before a full day food and beer photo shoot with chef and stylist. I wanted to get the colour of the beer right and happened to have a bottle of Great Northern, a local beer in the fridge. Then enhanced the golden beer tones with the orange backlight.