Yeah I was super fortunate to get that space. It was really pretty too. Sadly the ceilings were too low and it wasn't on the ground floor so I eventually outgrew it :(
I watched UA-camrs/photographers and videographers for years but I feel this is the first time I'm actually learning from someone who has answers to my professional questions. Not only on kit, cameras and techniques but also all the details that go into the food photography business. I loved your reviewing portfolios video too, that was so cool to see someone doing a precise, unfiltered, quickfire photo review. Well done, keep this channel up, please. Ladislav
Found your channel fairly recently & been working through some of the videos, while I'm an enthusiastic amateur and have no particular interest in food photography, but wanting to learn studio lighting. I find your style of being open & honest a pleasure to watch. Keep it up if you are able to find time as I'm sure I'm not alone in finding these enlightening.
Couldn't agree more on the kit! You pretty much described my beginner steps on photography for restaurants! Right now i am on the pro level transition. Hope to get there soon! Love your content ;)
Really excited to see the restaurant shoot, because I'm about to do the exact same thing in the next few weeks to "test the waters" to see if I am any good at food photography.
I’d love to hear more about the full frame / crop debate. I bought a Sony a6500 as a last-gen-still-decent hybrid for stills and hopefully UA-cam video! The full frame a-series are thousands 😅 looking forward to that video
I will try and put a video about it together. Need to try and get hold of a really old full frame camera first and the latest and greatest crop sensor from Canon so I can show the visual differences.
Couldn't agree more with everything you said. Great Input. The only thing I have to argue with you is about the crop camera you mentioned. I think some crop bodies (looking at an uses xt2 from fuji for example with some great lenses ) are totally capable of doing professional photography.
I kind of agree with you that the older, cheapest Godox speed-lights can have slight inconsistency. But the AD200 is used by many pros, as is the AD400, AD600 and so on. Even the V1 I find very consistent. Soft-boxes are all personal. I think we would all agree to disagree as we all tend to fall in love with the light from certain softboxes :)
Hey Scott! I discovered your channel a few days ago and I already think is one of the most useful and resolute on the platform, especially thinking that all of your content is free, unbelievable. I have a question to ask and would be amazing if you'll find the time to reply. I mainly do portraits and events, I photograph everything with a pair of Fujifilm (X-T3 and X-T4), crop sensor, and a great park of prime lenses. I would like to get into product and food photography, do you think is possible with these cameras, or is better to concentrate on other genres and wait for the money to afford a full-frame? Would not be my passion, I think, but I guess (considering what's happening) that the market would be more prolific in the "non-people" photography. Thanks
Brandon Castillo thanks 😊 certainly nothing wrong with those lights. I think they are perhaps the most popular lights around atm. Their speed lights on the other hand are not too good, but you could certainly get the job done with them.
24-105 is a really good lens for this type of work, you can get reasonably nice closeups (especially with extenders), some wide shots, videos, it's great for studio-like work and really cheap. I have 100L and had 90ts-e and often used this just because of the convenience.
Yeah its a super versatile lens. We had the original version for event work, but I also felt for food that it lacked any real aesthetic beauty for the images compared to primes.
There's an issue with the Canon 24-105 f4 Mk1 in that the lens actually creeps (zooms) when pointing vertically down. It's fking annoying for product/food work actually. I've resorted to cramming Blu-Tac on the lens barrel to stop it before now. The mk2 version has a lock to prevent this.
Hi Scott! Thank you so much for your informative videos ! :) You mentioned soft boxes, do you have specific one that you would recommend? I might have missed the name/link
Best channel and such a helpful content, thank you Scott! May I ask one question, very curious to know why do you comment that Godox flashes aren't good enough?
Can't wait for the restaurant footage! Regarding second/additional bodies, do you use them all and spread the wear & tear or do you have a main one that get's used most of the time?
It really doesn't matter. I guess you might preserve their value slightly more if you abuse one and keep the other nice but.... Don't worry too much about it. Pick up whichever one is closest and if you have 2+ lenses, I'd recommend keeping a different lens on each camera instead of frequently decoupling the lenses.
I really enjoy your practical approach to the business of being a photographer. It's rather refreshing not to hear a bunch of useless bs on UA-cam for a change. Thank you. Now, to my issue. In the past, I've tethered my camera to an Ikan VH8-E6 monitor which is small and relatively difficult to deal with. I recently bought a new iPad Air (2021) with the thought of tethering my camera to it and using it as a photo monitor. I didn't want to buy a laptop since prefer to edit on my iMac as I prefer the larger monitor. Is there any practical reason why you would NOT take this route? If not, why not? Thanks in advance ...
Being a Chef . It's all fine well taking pics of dishes . Tbf have you ever seen images of dishes that is advertised but when you buy ..a certain item . When it arrives it more often doesn't look like what was advertised . And the taste ( always lacking ) and burger being HOT ( never is ) Biggest culprits are McDonalds , BK .. etc . because time is money
I wanna start with Restaurant shootings too and have the Canon 24-105 lens (with the red ring:-) It covers all your mentioned focal lengths and therefor would also do the job, no? What is your opinion? Another question I have is: If you shoot the menue, will you get every single dish cooked and served by the chef for the picture? Can it be done within one day or how long does a typical Restaurant job take?
Full frame might be better, but I already have a crop and I don't have the money to buy another camera, camera gear are pretty expensive in Brazil... and even more expensive when you are unemployed... so I'll start with what I have. And I already have a godox speedlight too 😂😂 but I'm gonna follow your advice of buying a rectangular softbox as soon as I have the money for it. Maybe after that I save money to buy a full frame? Or would be better to buy another crop identical with the one that I have?
Great tutorial, thanks. Question with restaurant menu shooting. I found at this days with cov19 lots of local small restaurant not has any photos form menu (online orders). How much I can charge small local takeaway restaurant for basic menu photos? They not have much budget, but they need photos for better selling the food. I am not asking for exactly price but how to work with prices, I am out of London (Surrey). Thanks :)
Seems like the only thing I didn't do was get the laptop xD I am planning to get a laptop for on location shoots but maybe in the future as food photography is still not my main source of income yet :D
Other than renting space upstairs from a restaurant in exchange for photographing their menu, what do you suggest in terms of marketing photography services to local, independent restaurants?
as an over simplified response, keep putting good work out there and sending it to them or tagging them online in it, engaging with them online to always helps.
I just watched your older video in which you compared full frame to crop and said that there is no big difference between them. And here you firmly say to go with full frame as it's definitely the better choice after all. So which one is it? Or what changed? I thought that latest crop sensors caught up with the full frame, at least in good lighting conditions, and in product photography high iso performance shouldn't be that important, right? Also there is more dof in crop sensor. I'm currently choosing camera (not just for food but also product photography in general) and can't decide if I should really go with probably used ff or maybe the crop will be an equally good choice. [in Nikon, let's say D7500/Z50 vs D750, I haven't looked at the Canon lineup yet] . Any clarification would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.
I think context is key. I THINK it was the video where I photographed a plant against a studio background. I think if you are shooting with no context behind the subject, then it doesn't really matter. E commerce for example. But for this specific use which is restaurant photography, an older full frame will outperform a brand new crop sensor on aesthetic alone. In my opinion.
thank you, that make sense. It was that video with plants and bowl of grapes oh, and thanks for all great videos! Looking forward to that full restaurant photoshoot
After you talked about your tether cable, you said something about protecting the jack on the camera side but it’s one of those time you spoke fast and yank that I am, doesn’t always 100% get the accent... Can you mention what came after the tether cable conversation? Thanks.
Unsupported, cables can get yanked out of the camera pretty easily. This can range from inconvenience (replugging the camera) to expensive damage (breaking the camera-side port). The surest way to avoid this problem is to get a cable routing baseplate with groves to hold the cable with slack. Search "tetherblock" by tether tools on Amazon.
So you buy your camera from an amateur who is upgrading to new gear and make money with it. I can see your point. Makes sense. Without us amateurs buying all this professional gear Canon would have to stop... Or charge like 20k for a body. I assume that your clients do not care about the make/mode/Mk of the camera you use. Years ago I talked to a well-known wedding photographer. He told me that he really didn't need his Leica to get good shots, but that it was kind of expected that he would come with a Leica or other very expensive camera. Nice series of videos!
You are quite adamant about using a quality light modifier but were not terribly clear on the reason. Is it the quality of light from better fabrics or the ease of use during set-up?
Id deffo buy those too, but thankfully they are smaller purchases that probably require less bank balance planning. I am going to do a video on my new colour workflow as soon as a few more bits fall into place.
Tin House Studio thank you for the answer! Sadly, in my country sekonic and color checker are quite expensive. Monitor calibration excluded of course lol. Each price could buy a good softbox or godox strobe. But I wonder if those basic tools are essentials?
I ca n see that this is an earlier video of yours and you are recomending avoiding godox lights. I bet you did not know that you would one day recomend godox lights some point in the future as you did on your later videos. I can't help being intrigued and ask you, why did you change your mind?
Yes considerably, it would have a bigger impact than having a better camera body (to a certain extent of course). Better colour, quality of light, consistency of light, temperature, colours, and power too. Also build quality and cost per use is worth noting. I have brand name heads that are 20 years old and still going strong with heavy use. Not that you can't take a good image with a godox softbox.
Apologies for the double upload, something went wrong int he export that I didn't see until it went live. instagram.com/scottchoucino/
Didn’t even notice. Good vid 😊
What a cool arrangement you had with the restaurant to rent the space above!
Yeah I was super fortunate to get that space. It was really pretty too. Sadly the ceilings were too low and it wasn't on the ground floor so I eventually outgrew it :(
I watched UA-camrs/photographers and videographers for years but I feel this is the first time I'm actually learning from someone who has answers to my professional questions. Not only on kit, cameras and techniques but also all the details that go into the food photography business. I loved your reviewing portfolios video too, that was so cool to see someone doing a precise, unfiltered, quickfire photo review. Well done, keep this channel up, please. Ladislav
found your channel a few weeks ago and you're easily one of the best on youtube for photography content. appreciate all the knowledge you're sharing
Thanks Phil. I appreciate the kind words.
Found your channel fairly recently & been working through some of the videos, while I'm an enthusiastic amateur and have no particular interest in food photography, but wanting to learn studio lighting. I find your style of being open & honest a pleasure to watch. Keep it up if you are able to find time as I'm sure I'm not alone in finding these enlightening.
Really informative video once again. Thank you very much. I was waiting to finish up work all day to get home and watch this.
Couldn't agree more on the kit! You pretty much described my beginner steps on photography for restaurants! Right now i am on the pro level transition. Hope to get there soon! Love your content ;)
I am sure you will do. Just keep plugging away at it.
Really excited to see the restaurant shoot, because I'm about to do the exact same thing in the next few weeks to "test the waters" to see if I am any good at food photography.
Looking forward to that restaurant footage, Scott. Thanks.
Thanks David, Hopefully it will be up next month some time
Nice that you gave the examples.
Learning from all the feedback haha. Everyone always moans that I don't and it wasn't too much more work to add them thanks to my new filing system.
I’d love to hear more about the full frame / crop debate. I bought a Sony a6500 as a last-gen-still-decent hybrid for stills and hopefully UA-cam video! The full frame a-series are thousands 😅 looking forward to that video
I will try and put a video about it together. Need to try and get hold of a really old full frame camera first and the latest and greatest crop sensor from Canon so I can show the visual differences.
Couldn't agree more with everything you said. Great Input. The only thing I have to argue with you is about the crop camera you mentioned. I think some crop bodies (looking at an uses xt2 from fuji for example with some great lenses ) are totally capable of doing professional photography.
Thank you.
Thank you, It was a informative video.
Thanks for watching :)
Looking forward to the BTS on the photoshoot man. Thanks for sharing
as i currently focus shooting in hotel restaurants, my go to gear for lighting is a Broncolor Primo with 2 heads, a 60x100 and 120x180 softbox.
Jan Keifer sounds like a nice set up :)
Love your content, very informative. Quick question, was the restaurant photoshoot got uploaded?
Awesome video, excited to see that on location restaurant shoot
Thanks. Hopefully I will have it out next month!
@@TinHouseStudioUK where's the video?
This is great! Thank you. Its generating lots of ideas and I seem to have a lot of the kit! Time to head over to the Jerkstoppers site!
haha, yeah the tethertools site is great, although easy to spend a lot of money on little bits there.
@@TinHouseStudioUK Just blown a lot of my student loan! Thanks for that!
Kim Cockitt best way to blow it !
I kind of agree with you that the older, cheapest Godox speed-lights can have slight inconsistency. But the AD200 is used by many pros, as is the AD400, AD600 and so on. Even the V1 I find very consistent. Soft-boxes are all personal. I think we would all agree to disagree as we all tend to fall in love with the light from certain softboxes :)
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Hey Scott! I discovered your channel a few days ago and I already think is one of the most useful and resolute on the platform, especially thinking that all of your content is free, unbelievable.
I have a question to ask and would be amazing if you'll find the time to reply.
I mainly do portraits and events, I photograph everything with a pair of Fujifilm (X-T3 and X-T4), crop sensor, and a great park of prime lenses. I would like to get into product and food photography, do you think is possible with these cameras, or is better to concentrate on other genres and wait for the money to afford a full-frame? Would not be my passion, I think, but I guess (considering what's happening) that the market would be more prolific in the "non-people" photography.
Thanks
I love this video, I actually have some Godox Lights AD200, AD600, if I only knew they were not that good but you know they do the work
Brandon Castillo thanks 😊 certainly nothing wrong with those lights. I think they are perhaps the most popular lights around atm. Their speed lights on the other hand are not too good, but you could certainly get the job done with them.
Godox I believe is part of Bowens today, and they are much better now than before. I am using for everyday V1 and I am so happy with outcome
@@mdhazeldine Bowens is back to the market and is made in Godox factories, also they own the brand
24-105 is a really good lens for this type of work, you can get reasonably nice closeups (especially with extenders), some wide shots, videos, it's great for studio-like work and really cheap. I have 100L and had 90ts-e and often used this just because of the convenience.
Yeah its a super versatile lens. We had the original version for event work, but I also felt for food that it lacked any real aesthetic beauty for the images compared to primes.
@@TinHouseStudioUK it doesn't have any beauty hidden in the glass. it's more of f/11 and good light
There's an issue with the Canon 24-105 f4 Mk1 in that the lens actually creeps (zooms) when pointing vertically down. It's fking annoying for product/food work actually. I've resorted to cramming Blu-Tac on the lens barrel to stop it before now. The mk2 version has a lock to prevent this.
Would you consider making a separate video about why you like Nikon and Canon flashes so much more than the Godox ones?
Hi Scott! Thank you so much for your informative videos ! :)
You mentioned soft boxes, do you have specific one that you would recommend? I might have missed the name/link
I appreciate the great info, would you still advise the 5d mkii in 2023 as opposed to a mirrorless?
Best channel and such a helpful content, thank you Scott!
May I ask one question, very curious to know why do you comment that Godox flashes aren't good enough?
I shoudl have clarified that it is the speedlights rather than their entier range. It is due to colours and consistency
Can't wait for the restaurant footage!
Regarding second/additional bodies, do you use them all and spread the wear & tear or do you have a main one that get's used most of the time?
It really doesn't matter. I guess you might preserve their value slightly more if you abuse one and keep the other nice but.... Don't worry too much about it. Pick up whichever one is closest and if you have 2+ lenses, I'd recommend keeping a different lens on each camera instead of frequently decoupling the lenses.
thanks for the video! but i would say godox products like ad400 and 600 pro are very well made and produce a beautiful light for a killer price.
Those two lights are pretty much the first time truly professional quality lighting is more affordable. It's amazing times we live in!
I really enjoy your practical approach to the business of being a photographer. It's rather refreshing not to hear a bunch of useless bs on UA-cam for a change. Thank you. Now, to my issue.
In the past, I've tethered my camera to an Ikan VH8-E6 monitor which is small and relatively difficult to deal with. I recently bought a new iPad Air (2021) with the thought of tethering my camera to it and using it as a photo monitor. I didn't want to buy a laptop since prefer to edit on my iMac as I prefer the larger monitor. Is there any practical reason why you would NOT take this route? If not, why not? Thanks in advance ...
I can't seem to find the list of gear you said you'd post in the description below? Am I missing it somewhere?
What are your thought on using artificial items for food (such as plastic ice cubes or mashed potatoes as a substitute for ice cream)?
wehre is the video that you will use this kit to shoot at a location?
Being a Chef . It's all fine well taking pics of dishes . Tbf have you ever seen images of dishes that is advertised but when you buy ..a certain item . When it arrives it more often doesn't look like what was advertised . And the taste ( always lacking ) and burger being HOT ( never is )
Biggest culprits are McDonalds , BK .. etc . because time is money
Are branded speedlights and softboxes really that much better than say neweer? I'd like to see a test.
I wanna start with Restaurant shootings too and have the Canon 24-105 lens (with the red ring:-) It covers all your mentioned focal lengths and therefor would also do the job, no? What is your opinion? Another question I have is: If you shoot the menue, will you get every single dish cooked and served by the chef for the picture? Can it be done within one day or how long does a typical Restaurant job take?
Full frame might be better, but I already have a crop and I don't have the money to buy another camera, camera gear are pretty expensive in Brazil... and even more expensive when you are unemployed... so I'll start with what I have. And I already have a godox speedlight too 😂😂 but I'm gonna follow your advice of buying a rectangular softbox as soon as I have the money for it. Maybe after that I save money to buy a full frame? Or would be better to buy another crop identical with the one that I have?
Great tutorial, thanks.
Question with restaurant menu shooting. I found at this days with cov19 lots of local small restaurant not has any photos form menu (online orders). How much I can charge small local takeaway restaurant for basic menu photos? They not have much budget, but they need photos for better selling the food. I am not asking for exactly price but how to work with prices, I am out of London (Surrey). Thanks :)
Hi,in yout thumbnail you have something with many colors. What is the name of it and how to use it ? Thx in advance ❤️
Seems like the only thing I didn't do was get the laptop xD I am planning to get a laptop for on location shoots but maybe in the future as food photography is still not my main source of income yet :D
I recently bought the canon 5ds. I tried the EOS r mirrorless but didn’t like it
Other than renting space upstairs from a restaurant in exchange for photographing their menu, what do you suggest in terms of marketing photography services to local, independent restaurants?
as an over simplified response, keep putting good work out there and sending it to them or tagging them online in it, engaging with them online to always helps.
I just watched your older video in which you compared full frame to crop and said that there is no big difference between them. And here you firmly say to go with full frame as it's definitely the better choice after all. So which one is it? Or what changed?
I thought that latest crop sensors caught up with the full frame, at least in good lighting conditions, and in product photography high iso performance shouldn't be that important, right? Also there is more dof in crop sensor.
I'm currently choosing camera (not just for food but also product photography in general) and can't decide if I should really go with probably used ff or maybe the crop will be an equally good choice. [in Nikon, let's say D7500/Z50 vs D750, I haven't looked at the Canon lineup yet]
. Any clarification would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.
I think context is key. I THINK it was the video where I photographed a plant against a studio background. I think if you are shooting with no context behind the subject, then it doesn't really matter. E commerce for example. But for this specific use which is restaurant photography, an older full frame will outperform a brand new crop sensor on aesthetic alone. In my opinion.
thank you, that make sense. It was that video with plants and bowl of grapes
oh, and thanks for all great videos! Looking forward to that full restaurant photoshoot
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@@TinHouseStudioUK I am 16 year old from India and loving your content a lot sir...
Perfect haircut and now it's time for a beard! :-)) ... and more moogy of cource :-))
haha Thanks. Yeah I will try and get her in more videos. Although she does slow the process down a tad.
After you talked about your tether cable, you said something about protecting the jack on the camera side but it’s one of those time you spoke fast and yank that I am, doesn’t always 100% get the accent... Can you mention what came after the tether cable conversation? Thanks.
Unsupported, cables can get yanked out of the camera pretty easily. This can range from inconvenience (replugging the camera) to expensive damage (breaking the camera-side port).
The surest way to avoid this problem is to get a cable routing baseplate with groves to hold the cable with slack. Search "tetherblock" by tether tools on Amazon.
Tether block. Thanks.
So you buy your camera from an amateur who is upgrading to new gear and make money with it.
I can see your point. Makes sense.
Without us amateurs buying all this professional gear Canon would have to stop... Or charge like 20k for a body.
I assume that your clients do not care about the make/mode/Mk of the camera you use.
Years ago I talked to a well-known wedding photographer. He told me that he really didn't need his Leica to get good shots, but that it was kind of expected that he would come with a Leica or other very expensive camera.
Nice series of videos!
You are quite adamant about using a quality light modifier but were not terribly clear on the reason. Is it the quality of light from better fabrics or the ease of use during set-up?
How about the light meter and color checker?
Id deffo buy those too, but thankfully they are smaller purchases that probably require less bank balance planning. I am going to do a video on my new colour workflow as soon as a few more bits fall into place.
Tin House Studio thank you for the answer! Sadly, in my country sekonic and color checker are quite expensive. Monitor calibration excluded of course lol. Each price could buy a good softbox or godox strobe. But I wonder if those basic tools are essentials?
Anybody in the comments. Between a canon 70-200 and a canon 24-105. Which is better at 100mm? (fine dining tabletop type thing).
the version 3 70-200 is better than the version 2 2401-5 at 200. Not sure about the older versions.
@@TinHouseStudioUK thank you so much 🙏🏿
I ca n see that this is an earlier video of yours and you are recomending avoiding godox lights. I bet you did not know that you would one day recomend godox lights some point in the future as you did on your later videos. I can't help being intrigued and ask you, why did you change your mind?
What if I can only afford 1 camera?
You often comment about other videos in each video...can you start to add links to these other videos so we dont have to go fishing for them? Thx!
I will try to, unfortunalty we film in batch and by the time they upload I have forgotten whats said.
@@TinHouseStudioUK ok, no worries. Cheers mate.
“Get a Canon 5D Mark II and a 50mm prime lens - doesn't matter which one.”
… Gets a Canon 5D Mark II and a Nikon 50mm.
Are branded speedlights and softboxes really that much better than say neweer? I'd like to see a test.
Yes considerably, it would have a bigger impact than having a better camera body (to a certain extent of course). Better colour, quality of light, consistency of light, temperature, colours, and power too. Also build quality and cost per use is worth noting. I have brand name heads that are 20 years old and still going strong with heavy use. Not that you can't take a good image with a godox softbox.