As most of you all can probably relate to, one of the biggest obsessions when developing your blog is learning the photography process. Just when you think you've mastered your DSLR camera, you then need to learn food styling and plating! {Ahhh!} It's quite the learning experience and one that I think even the BEST food stylists still find new and exciting.
I give you friends the BEST food photography and styling book hands down! Plate to Pixel, written by Helene Dujardin (aka Tartelette), is incredibly inspirational, soo informative and, in my opinion, changes the way you shoot your food from here on out. You are seriously learning from the best and she teaches you everything from choosing your props, finding the perfect light and important techniques to improve your photography skills. Oh and did I mention all the gorgeous photography you'll find throughout this book?? Nothing short of inspiring.
Even if you don't have a desire to learn food styling or want to shoot pictures of food, this book is still perfect for those that love photography! I promise you you'll learn so much. PLUS! I happen to love my readers and I couldn't help but share this fabulous book with you all!! Annnd I may have gotten an additional book for myself...shh.
Don't judge.
With that said, I wanted to give one of you lucky readers the chance to own your own copy of Plate to Pixel. To enter to win, please leave one comment telling me what you'd like to learn most from this book!
For additional entries (all separate comments):
1. Become a Google Friend Connect follower (if you aren't already) and leave a comment saying so.
2. Like Eat Yourself Skinny on Facebook (comment saying you did so or let me know if you already do)
3. Follow Eat Yourself Skinny on Twitter (comment saying you did so or let me know if you already do)
4. Tweet about this giveaway saying: "I just entered @EatUrselfSkinny's fabulous Plate to Pixel Food Photography Giveaway! http://bit.ly/r6p0Gu" and comment saying you did.
So there you go! Five possible entries and one of you could win this amazing book! The winner will be announced Monday, October 10th. Good luck friends and thank YOU sooo much for reading and posting all your sweet comments!! This is for you!
This giveaway is now closed.
This giveaway is now closed.
339 lovely comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 1 – 200 of 339 Newer› Newest»Hi Kelly! GREAT giveaway - thanks! I have to say - what I'd like to learn is easy for me - I'd like to learn more about LIGHT and LIGHTING!
...to me, the most important part of food photography!
Thanks again!
BTW - I follow you on Google Follower
I follow you on twitter (I saw the tweet and headed over)
...and I like you on Facebook!
(you know - any place else this would be stalking! LOL)
Hi Kelly! I've had my eye on this book for a while! I would love to learn more about food styling and composition! Great giveaway!
I am a google plus follower!
I follow u here
I also follow you on facebook!
...and twitter! And I tweeted your giveaway!!
Hey Kelly :-) Great giveaway!
Were I to win the book, I just want to learn better lighting techniques. That is one of my biggest problems.
Andddddd... I already follow you on Facebook of course. :-)
Andddddd... lol... already follow you on Twitter too. :-)
And watch out for Ann; she's such a stalker :-P
Goodness I could learn many things from this book, since I've never taken any sort of photo class or tutorial in my life.
I like you already on FB :-)
And I definitely already follow you on Twitter
I want to learn the best camera settings and angles.
I follow you on FB
I just tweeted about the giveaway too
I just followed you on twitter and I tweeted about the contest.
:) Thanks for this giveaway!
-Miriam
I want to learn how to use natural lighting to capture the best images! And also how to tweak pictures in photoshop.
(also liked you on fb and I follow through google reader :))
I'm passionate in photography but never had any formal training. I definitely would love to learn more, especially for my food blog. Guess everything in this book would be helpful, especially the basic and rule for photography. Thanks for a chance to win.
amy [at] utry [dot] it
I'm your follower on GFC
amy [at] utry [dot] it
Liked your Facebook page. :)
amy [at] utry [dot] it
Following you on Twitter now. @utry_it
amy [at] utry [dot] it
Just tweeted about this giveaway.https://twitter.com/#!/uTry_it/status/121515181359628289
amy [at] utry [dot] it
Its a great book Kelly and I have to agree with you that photography is so important when blogging, all the more in capturing the pics of the food being shared.
!!!! I want this book so much! What a good giveaway!
I would most like to learn about lighting and props. I'm not sure which I want to learn about more!
Also, I follow you on Twitter...
...I like you on facebook...
... AND I just tweeted about your giveaway :)
Oh my goodness. It is embarrassing how badly I need this book :P
I need help with composition / lighting indoors (I have no access to natural light. sniffle)
I already like your facebook page of course
Annnnd I follow you on twitter!
And I'm headed to twitter right now to tweet about your contest. Thanks again for hosting such a great contest!
Hi! I'd like most to learn about how to compensate for bad lighting in a tiny kitchen.
I follow you on Google...
And I like you on Facebook...
...and I follow you on Twitter!
I follow you on twitter:)
I follow you on fb:)
I also tweeted about the contest:)
I would love to learn about light and aperture. I can never get it fully focused with my camera!
Thank you for the giveaway!
I follow you (and have been for awhile. Your recipes are the best!)
I would like to learn most about shadows and placement of food. I am struggling and know this book would be such a help:) Great Giveaway!!
I would love to improve my food photography!! Thanks!!
I already follow you on Facebook! Your blog is great!
I need food styling tips! what a great giveaway Kelly!
I already follow you on Facebook.
I follow you on Twitter.
I am officialy connected with you on Google.
Super cool giveaway Kelly! I am anxious to learn about composition and I know there are great tips in the book.
Super cool giveaway Kelly! I am anxious to learn about composition and I know there are great tips in the book.
Following your tweets, woo-hoo!!
There's so much To learn from this book. Composition, lighting...I need it all. Thanks for a wonderful give away
I would love to learn more about aperture settings and lighting!
I like you on Facbook!
Kelly,
Thanks for this timely giveaway. I need help with so many things, lighting, composition, and food styling for starters, and probably a new camera.
I've wanted this book ever since I took a Food Photography class. There is so much to learn...
would love to learn more about lighting.
Chef Laura at Home (Laura Janelli)
www.facebook.com/cheflauraathome
http://laurajanelli.posterous.com
I 'like' Eat Yourself Skinny on Facebook!
Chef Laura at Home
www.facebook.com/cheflauraathome
What a fantastic giveaway! I have been trying to find that book for a while!!!
I would love to learn more about lighting and food styling! :-)
Chef Laura at Home (Laura Janelli) is a Google Friend Connect Follower!
Following on Facebook! :-)
Already following you on Twitter! :-)
Just tweeted about the giveaway! :-)
Yay! This book looks great. I'd love to get my hands on it :)
I'm a follower!
Lighting all the way. It's my one main reason for getting photos rejected from Gawker.
Like your facebook page!
Follow your tweets!
I agree! When I first started taking pictures of food, all my shots were total CRAP! Now I have figured out some tricks as far as lighting, but plating and presentation are my weak area for sure! I would love to have this book! I am following you on Twitter, and I am a Google Follower, too! -- Liz
Should have done separate comments! Sorry! Twitter Follower!
And Google Follower!
Fantastic giveaway! And so desperately needed (at least for me.) I have 'light' envy in the WORST way. I've got a US mailing address so please count me. I've also tweeted the giveaway.
Now I'll sit here with fingers crossed :)
Buzzed!
that sounds like an awesome book! I am already a follower. ~ Andi
andreatrautman812@gmail.com
I like you on Facebook (Andi Bauer Trautman)
andreatrautman812@gmail.com
Don't include me in the giveaway because I already own the book. I agree though, it is fantastic and has helped me a LOT.
I'm a follower. I hope to learn all the great techniques. =]
I follow you on twitter.
I like you on Facebook.
Just started following you on Twitter
I was already a facebook fan...I love your updates!
Im a google fan follower!!!
Im a FB fan!!!
I follow you on Twitter!
I tweeted the link! This book looks AMAZING!
I desperately need this book, I am clueless when it comes to pics! I liked you on Facebook and am going to follow on Twitter. Thanks for your comment on my blog!
What a great giveaway! I would love to learn more about finding the "right" natural light for photographs as well as tips on arrangements!
I would love to win this book!
I follow your blog on Google Friend Connect!
I follow your Blog on Facebook!
I follow your Blog on Twitter!
Hi Kelly, great giveaway , I followed you by google and also liked your FB page. I love to learn how to take prettier food pictures with this book, since we are in the subject, do you have any good recommendation for photography lessons ( books or websites) thanks have a lovely day xx
This is so neat! I'd love to read it...there's so much I need to learn about food photography!
I'm doing a giveaway right now too! You'll have to check it out!
Follow you on Twitter (duh!) ;)
I just bought this book to help out with my own blog. It's so good!
Follow you on Google Connect!
Follow you on Facebook :)
Follow you on Twitter!
Tweeted about the giveaway.
I want this book sooo bad I just purchased a DSLR!
I follow you on Google connect-great book, nice of you to have this giveaway Kelly.
Kelly this is such an amazing giveaway! Already following you everywhere.
I just want to comment, so I don't need to enter the giveaway. This book is the best book I've ever bought on styling and photography. But I will definitely like your fb page.
~ ray ~
I know follow you on Facebook!
And Twitter!
I would really like to learn how to style food and how to get great lighting to take food pics for my blog
I follow you via GFC
I like you on FB
I tweeted :)
So glad I have found your blog. I "liked" you on FB too! :)
~Kari
I follow you on Twitter! :)
~Kari
I have tweeted about your giveaway. Good luck on your nomination for Best New Blog! I voted for you! :)
~Kari
I NEED this book! I have had it on my wish list since I started blogging - I have so much to learn!
I follow you on twitter
I've been on the hunt for a great food photography book. I have so much to learn! From aperture settings to manual focus to the best angles. Ahh! I love it all. There is only so many hours in the day to do research online and play with my food. <3
I like you on facebook
I follow you on google friend connect
I want to learn about lighting. That's my biggest challenge!
I follow using Google Connect :)
I also follow you on Twitter!
I would absolutely love to have this book! I desperately need to learn about food photography. I cook and cook and cook, but am not good at taking pictures. I have a lot to learn! I joined your site and also tweeted. Oh, and I have already bookmarked your pumpkin spiced martini... I plan on making that on Thanksgiving!
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE to learn lighting!! That is my biggest nightmare!
OH and I follow you on twitter AND facebook!!
I've asked for a dslr for Christmas, so hopefully I get it! I would love to learn lighting, how to do cool effects like bokeh, how to focus on something in the front and how to blur the background. I need to learn the main terms like iso and aperture and shutter speed etc! I also want some food styling help. I have been eyeing this cookbook for awhile, I hope I win!!! :)
I already am a GFC follower :)
I would love to learn how to make my food look "realistic" and appetizing instead of washed out and nasty...
Already a Google follower.
Already like you on FB (JS81501 at yahoo)
Already follow you on Twitter! (@Archi77)
I've had my eye on this book for a while now. I have so much to learn, I don't know where to start.....
tweeted the contest! (@archi77)
I follow you on twitter!
I like you on facebook!
I follow you on Google connect!
I tweeted about your giveaway too!
I am a google friend connect follower.
I am a fan on Facebook.
Great giveaway, I have had this in my Amazon cart for a while. I would like to learn more about composition.
I follow you on Twitter.
I'd love to learn how to take better pics in low light - especially at events or restaurants.
I tweeted!
I follow you on Twitter
I like you on FB
I would love to learn how to arrange and style food with props!
I already followed you on Twitter - @mylilkitchenlab
I added you on Facebook!
As a brand new food blogger, I would love to learn how to turn my mediocre pictures into tantalizing works of art!
-alaina
The hardest thing for me is finding the right lighting! I live in a basement apartment. It has windows, but usually I end up cooking at night after school and work, so lighting is tough. I'd like some pointers.
bolton.lindsay@gmail.com
I have issues using my flash. Hopefully this would help. :-)
I follow you on Twitter.
I retweeted!
I could really use this book! I follow you on Twitter. :)
Great blog!!! and very excited about your giveaway. I am now a google follower.
and I follow you on FB.
but I don't know how to tweet :(
I'm still new to photography so I hope to learn as much as possible from this book!
Became a Google Friend Connect follower,
Liked you on Facebook,
Following you on Twitter,
Tweeted about the giveaway!
I need help with EVERYTHING but I guess lighting would be a great starting point!
adb6{at}humboldt{dot}edu
Kelly, I would love to get this book and learn about lighting food. I have a terribly dark and depressing tiny apartment in Ohio and I need some ideas on artificial light that doesn't look artificial!
I like you on fb
I follow you on twitter
Annnnd I subscribe to your RSS in google reader ;) Thanks!
Definitely presentation. I'd like to wow people when they come over!
I own this delightful book...it's time to dig it out again :) Such a lovely giveaway!
Light is what I struggle with the most, so I would like to learn about different light techniques.
Erica from Feasting on Life
I'm a GFC follower!
Erica from Feasting on Life
I liked Eat Yourself Skinny on Facebook!
Erica from Feasting on Life
I'm now following you on Twitter!
Erica from Feasting on Life
And finally, I just tweeted about your giveaway!
http://twitter.com/#!/rockchalkgirl/status/121683903869222912
Erica from Feasting on Life
I'd like to learn how to position/set up my food!
I follow you on twitter.
I like you on FB!
I'm a Google Friend follower!
I've really been trying to get better with my DSLR and my food photos. I would absolutely love to win this book!!
I need to learn more about lighting. My pictures are always yellow and sad.
I'd like to learn how to take good photos without spending a lot of money and without misleading my readers
I need lessons on how to "stage" a photo.
Now following you on twitter (as @ohyoucook).
Oh Kelly, I'd love this book! I am always wanting to find different ways of styling for a photo.
I like you on Facebook!
I follow your blog on GFC.
I'd love to learn how to maximize light in a fairly dark kitchen- that always gets me in food pictures.
Thanks for the giveaway!
lesliedoll at hotmail dot com
I'm a GFC follower, too :)
Lighting is always an issue, though I think composition tends to hurt my photos most.
Looks like a great book. I could definitely use help in all areas when it come to food photography
I follow on Google
Follow on twitter
Hi Kelly, I would like to learn about lighting most...especially when it starts to get darker early.
I already follow you on Google
I already follow you on Twitter
I already follow you on Facebook.
Great giveaway Kelly!
Hi Kelly - Following your blog Google Friends
I like you on FB as vnarsian, I don't have a twitter account else I would have tweeted away !!!
OMG PAUUULLEESSEE Pick me HAHA
I struggle every day taking photos, I have no light in my kitchen and am constantly running outside - which doesnt work when its raining
oh and I have followed you on FB for EVER now :)
Running with the deviled eggs!!
Since I'm a budding photography student, I'd like to learn some tips and tricks on various ways to set up food to look awesome in my shoots. I'd also like to able to use the things I learned in this book to branch out to more than just portrait photography and landscapes. I think it'd be a fun away to learn some things they might not teach in art school.
Um, definitely needed for food styling -- all the way.
I already "like" you on facebook!
And I already follow you on Twitter!
I'd love to learn more about lighting. Thanks for the giveaway! :)
Liked you on facebook! I desperately need this book to fix my bad food photos! ;)
followed you on twitter!
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