Great food photography is a combination of art and science and Melbourne photographer Marina Oliphant is one of the best in the biz. Marina’s amazing food images look like they are lit by the Beautiful Light Gods but she uses sophisticated lighting set ups and definitely knows her stuff. In this interview, you’ll discover: simple hacks to make portraits in dull locations look like studio shots, the best ways to light food, how to create soft daylight look using flash, adding a human element to lifestyle and, our fave, how to make brown food look good. Gina and Valerie love bringing this podcast to you. Hope you enjoy the podcast. Sign up to the newsletter for great tips and free Lightroom presets. Join the dynamic Gold Membership in our Community which delivers monthly tutorials, live mastermind and lots of behind the scenes videos into the creative process.   Click play...

Removing external drives such as hard drives and memory cards without safely ejecting them won’t damage them the first, second or third time but like smoking the damage is cumulative and doing this continuously will eventually corrupt the card and you will lose date. To safely eject a card from Windows: Double click on Computer or (My Computer) Find the card or device icon Right click and select eject To safely eject a memory card from a Mac: Right click on external device icon (memory card or external hard drive) Select eject