Photographs taken on my Food Portraits one day course at Aspire Photography Training.

From plate to pixel - getting started with food photography

Joan Ransley November 20, 2015

"From plate to pixel" is the title of Helen du Jardin's excellent book on food photography. It takes the reader through buying a camera and lenses suitable for taking photographs of food, to styling and shooting great images.

Introduction to food blogging and photography - a Guardian Masterclass

Joan Ransley May 15, 2015

I am sitting in room 1.1 at the head office of the Guardian Newspaper, London awaiting 10 students. I know one is called Emily and she has told me she is a journalist and has a young child who has both Type 1 diabetes and coeliac disease.