Jeff Scott Wins James Beard Award for Photography

Photographer Jeff Scott and chef Blake Beshore bring you the re-envisioning of the modern American cookbook. Notes from a Kitchen redefines the cookbook genre in a spectacular two-volume, 900 page cloth-covered collection that feels more like a beautiful museum artifact and private chef's journal than a traditional cookbook.


Notes from a Kitchen: A Journey Inside Culinary Obsession is the first book of its kind to accurately portray the daily creative life of a world-renowned chef in a visceral, cinematic format. Never before has a cookbook focused more intently on who a chef is as a person and why they place their culinary passion and obsessions before almost everything else
in their lives.

This beautifully-crafted collection explores today's most exciting young chefs in their kitchens and in personal conversation. Featuring over 1,000 vibrant color photographs, uniquely edited documentary film footage and private journals, this new form of modern cookbook studies the unique artistry that surrounds their emotional craft.


Who is James Beard you ask? Check out the link below. I have a few of his books. A must for any foodie/chef:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beard




Notebook Obsession: The Private Obsessions of Sean Brock (Short Version). Directed by Jeff Christopher Scott from jeff scott on Vimeo.

 Here's a peek inside this fantastic book

FEATURED CHEFS INCLUDE: Sean Brock (Husk and McCrady's, Charleston, SC), George Mendes (Aldea, New York), Johnny Iuzzini (Jean Georges, New York), Jason Neroni (Osteria La Buca, Los Angeles), Emma Hearst (Sorella, New York), Joel Harrington (Stephen Pyles, Dallas), Neal Fraser (Grace, Los Angeles), Matt Gaudet (Aquitaine, Boston), Michael Laiskonis (Le Bernardin, New York), and Zak Pelaccio (Fatty Cue and Fatty Crab, New York).

Food photography with Phase One IQ and 120mm Schneider-Kreuznach Tilt/Shift Lens

PC-TS – Perspective Control through Tilt / Shift is Schneider's new series of lenses for perspective control for digital single-lens reflex and Phase One medium format cameras.

The high-resolution optics are combined with a precise zero-play mechanism in a completely innovative lens housing ensuring long-term stability required for professional photography and the feel that view camera photographers have always valued in Schneider-Kreuznach lenses.

The exceptionally large image circles allow for full tilt and shift movements at any position in the lens rotation with no possibility of vignetting.

This series of lenses truly represents the state of the art in digital picture taking optics. Available as a 50mm f/2.8 Super Angulon and 90mm f/4.5 Makro Symmar for DSLR cameras and 120mm f/5.6 Apo Digitar for the Phase One camera.

Here's the Schneider -Kreuznach 120mm Tilt /Shift on a Leica S2

Food Photography Meets Matrix Bullet Time ~ Photographer Michael Crichton

Canadian photographer Michael Crichton freezes time and captures food in flight before the pending mess. Utilizing high speed Broncolor Scoro packs and heads Michael achieves Bullet-time results. The ultra quick flash duration (up to 1/10,000 of a second) stops time. Michael and his talented wife Leigh MacMillan are creative partners and collaborate on all of his projects including this fantastic series. Who thought spilling your wine or dropping your morning breakie could be so beautiful?

Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton

   

   

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