The Flying Salad.. AKA The Tossed Salad
I spent a few days teaching food and product photography. It took a lot of practice to get this “flying salad” (tossed salad) shot. I had a blast with my BYU-Idaho Comm 316 Professional Imaging class Friday night shooting food and product photography from 6:00 – 10:00pm. I spent the day gathering a huge variety of baked goods, breads, fancy desserts, Chinese food, tossed salad and condiments, Italian soda bar, etc. Then we plated it, added accessories and added my favorite continuous LED lights.
Luckily I brought enough batteries to pull off 10 different food stations! A special thanks to my assistants who were teaching a much as I was…Julie Peterson, Katie Anderson, and AJ Buruca (who also loaned us a lot of his own equipment.) I just love to see students – teaching – students, which is part of our BYU-Idaho Learning Model. There is nothing like this type of hands-on experiential learning. Thanks to Dustin Olsen, my TA, who helped design the original idea for this course, before moving on to a career teaching photography with Jim Harmer at www.improvephotography.com. Thanks to all my helpers this semester, and to my amazing students. You all rocked it! We had a blast getting some amazing shots on all three of our weekend excursions. Woo-hoo!
…Inspired from the amazing Joe Glyda, who I met at Photoshop World. Check out his food and product photography training sessions at www.kelbytraining.com
Flying Salad – Food and Product Photography – Caryn Esplin with students: Julie Peterson and AJ Buruca
Caryn Esplin’s Comm 316 Professional Imaging Class – Food and Product Photography
Austin Shurtliff shoots the bread station – Comm 316 Professional Imaging Class – Food and Product Photography – Caryn Esplin
Comm 316 Professional Imaging Class – Food and Product Photography with Caryn Esplin
Katie runs the Hot Cocoa station, but we realized we need cold air to get good steam – HaHa!
Jason is not afraid to get the perfect angle when shooting at the bread station – Food and Product Photography – Esplin
I totally LOVE the FLYING SALAD!!!!!! Looks like you have a lot of FUN!
Hey Roberta, I am glad you like the flying salad. We had a lot of fun with this in my advanced Professional Imaging class!
Some intriguing images, the flying salad is an interesting take, very vibrant and focuses on the ingredients with detail.
That flying salad is amazing! This whole excursion was just amazing! Food photography is something I know enjoy doing. I have learned a lot from these excursions.
Thanks, AJ. You are always so excited to learn new things and it shows in your incredible work. You could totally become a professional food photographer, or many other areas as well. You are extremely talented! Thanks for the blog comments. It is always nice to hear from you!
Hi! What is your lighting equipment? great photos! 🙂
We used two speedlights and one small LED continuous light. It is tough to be sure you don’t get reflections on the glass! Just lots of trial and error will do the trick. Thanks and have fun!
WOW!!Nice share
I just totally loved your flying salad. It is a fact that a well photographed dish has the ability to assault the senses with an image so real you can almost smell the sweetness, feel the warmth, and sense the steam rising.
I also like to do food photography and will surely try flying salad 🙂
Cheers!!