Valore Alimentare - Cooking School

At the end of last year I spent a couple of days in Milan with the chef, Giovanni Allegro, producing 12 vegetarian recipes for Valore Alimentare magazine here in Italy as part of their cooking school series. Here's the first part which has just been published. There are three more issues due over the coming year.

Tech: with this kind of shoot the challenge is to work quickly, following the action and getting light in the right place at the right time. I shot with a Nikon D3s setting a basic exposure for the available light and then adding flash with the Quadra to highlight or freeze action when necessary. As the light faded towards the end of the day I shot just with flash using two softboxes to give a more natural feel, ensuring the images would work alongside the daylight shots.