Here is a recipe we created using shredded chicken, radishes, cheese, and toasted corn tortillas. The Blood Orange Margarita matches very well!

Here is a fun project with the new McCormick Cholula Hot Sauces. We employed our Phase One Arca Swiss F Line technical camera to put everything in sharp focus with vivid colors and then fine-tuned and color-matched in Adobe Photoshop.

4 categories of food and beverages were shot for a large trade show booth needed with a 7 day turnaround from planning to finish.

Dry January Mocktails are coming in fizzy, caffeinated, spicy, red, and creamy. Here is a recent shoot we did to send help to everyone feeling stressed out in January but not wanting to fall off the wagon.

Here is a new recipe for bear claw cookies using my new KitchenAid mixer from my son.

An effective marketing strategy for CPG products is to show them in the shopping bag, mailing box, client bag, or branded shopping bag! Check out some of our favorites!

I love helping restaurants and chefs develop their best menu images. My mobile studio brings results! Check out some recent projects where we styled the food with the chef on location and then retouched and edited the photos for menus, signs, and banners.

We always enjoy shooting beverages in various vessels, showing off these products' branding, categories, ingredients, and lifestyle uses. Check out our work!

Photographing a family of products or groupings can be challenging, but it should always be an enjoyable and creative process! It’s one of our specialties, and we love designing cohesive, eye-catching themes to bring their sets to life.

Here is another overview of a critical CPG photography strategy by Judy Doherty. Focus on the flavor cues and the ingredients. The ingredients are often very photogenic, and they tell an important story about the advantages of a product. Check out our favorites.

Engage your audience with relatable, mouthwatering recipes and dynamic reels to showcase your product. Perfect for marketing content, these visuals captivate viewers, create connections, and highlight your brand authentically and appealingly.

Here is a delicious marketing library for a new product: dried cherries by Antioxidant Solutions. We started with a relatable image of cherries on a kitchen counter followed by 3 delicious ways to use them. The work will be used in Costco and Sam’s Club along with other marketing assets.

A while back, my assistant Heather Amszi and I had a fun idea: to create a shoot for every letter from A to Z. We brainstormed concepts for each letter, planning out props, lighting, and staging. Life got incredibly busy, and I never shared it—until now! Here it is!

Happy Thanksgiving. I wish all of my clients, readers, and. followers a season of abundance and joy. Thank you for another great year!

What would you make with a pile of greens, microgreens, grapefruit, and pomegranates? I decided to make a delicious salad with a lime vinaigrette.

New! Tons of surfaces and props added to the prop and surface libraries in my studio. Check out this fun Caribbean test.

It’s not uncommon for a photo shoot to produce a spectacular photo that simply finds no place in the issue. That was the case for photographer Judy Doherty’s still life on our cover, which was left over from our Winter 2021-22 issue’s feature on olio nuovo. We’re pleased to welcome her back. See more of her work at judydohertyphotography.com.

My Southern California food, beverage, and product studio—serving Los Angeles and San Diego—offers clients the whole enchilada. From mood boarding and concept development to set design, food styling, photography, videography, stop motion, and a complete editing and retouching suite, we handle every aspect of production. We even have a roster of local models ready to bring your vision to life!

I am honored to be a recipient of Lurzer’s 200 Best Digital Artists award for 2024, Edition 7. My Mother Earth Out of Time digital painting was chosen from over 6,000 entries.

We had a ball working with the Octonuts marketing team to create a photo library of their CPG brand and products using food photography and package photography. Their ideas for single ingredient, maximum flavor, fun, and tasty was very easy to articulate visually. We worked on a creative deck together to plan stop motion and still images with their products, flavor cues, and bright colors. Here are a few favorites.