Real Simple/ Weeknight Meals/ May

Photography: Con Poulos

Photography: Con Poulos

Photography: Con Poulos

Photography: Con Poulos

Photography: Con Poulos

Photography: Con Poulos

Back to my roots once again for another "Week of Dinners' now actually called "Weeknight Meals" This time shooting once again with the amazing Con Poulos and also working with a Food Stylist dear to my heart, Alison Attenborough Food Visionaire, check out her website and blog, It's a great read. 


With Real Simple "Weeknight Meals" its is a very paired back experience, It takes great restraint on my part as a Prop Stylist to really only present the bare minimum, It's a different approach then to other magazines, At least in this section. The props are not really telling a story, other than a different meal for the 5 nights of the week. So in order to produce a shoot that feels elevated, the props need to be dead on. I like to use plates that have a little character, rather than ordinary, and keeping an eye on the minimal use of color is also important, If anything it's the food that is allowed to sing. 


I really enjoy working on these shoots as usually I am thinking about a whole room or huge table scape which can be very layered, this type of shoot allows me to really focus on editing only the best, there are not too many "styling tricks" obvious here, It's the bare roots of styling at it's cleanest.