Shake, Rattle and Roll?

Or Stir, Splash, Storm.... Hot on the heels on my walking holiday in Spain's beautiful Aracena Sierra - ie the first day back! - I had a great time shooting three Blue Dragon ads with the lovely people from Reci.pe and Nico Ghirlando as food stylist. It was all a bit of a whirl-wind, as matched by the turn-around time. The posters were up within less than a month!
I love the fact that they wanted to keep everything as real as possible - right down to the incidental splashes on the wok. The chilli sauce splashes and falling herbs were quite fun and, happily, a bit more controllable than action-effects in other recent shoots! These are the 48-sheet crops. For 6-sheets see on the main web site.

Chocoholic?

Every so often I go through a phase of photographing a lot of chocolate which means, of course, there is a lot of it about in the studio. It's OK to begin with, then I get addicted and it takes me months to shake (and wear) it off!
We recently did a fun Godiva shoot, lots of close-up chocolate shots but also a very "creative" session making splashes of chocolate, caramel and milk of various shapes and textures. Hard luck if you missed the picture of me dressed in my protective "chocolate suit" on Instagram, I have sufficient pride not to put it here as well! But you can see a video spin-off I did at:http://www.sueatkinson.co.uk/film/2017/3/28/melting-chocolate
And here are a couple of stills for you to droole over:

Jacob's Ciabbattery Crunch!

It's been a great start to 2017 with super jobs on McVitie's and McDonalds already at the retouch stage. But there's nothing quite like seeing your own work on the roadside - as with the Jacob's Chiabattary posters and light boxes at bus stops around town now! Lovely working with the team at Grey. I styled the props and Lucy-Ruth the food. NB. This is our version - can you spot-the-difference from the one in print?