Stop Motion Summer Drinks
We had a blast working with the creative team from Ruby Tuesday to create a few stop motion animated gifs and videos for their lemonade promotion. Here are a few from our shoot. Safe to …
Phoenix Steakhouse
Here’s a sampling from a shoot we did in Phoenix, Arizona for Donovan’s Steak House last fall. We spent day one in the kitchen shooting back of house images (see here), and day two shooting …
Models, Cocktails, Old Glory
I wish I could take credit for the results from a well produced shoot. Here’s a case of our team putting together a super shoot complete with neat location, talented stylists and seasoned models. The …
The World is My Oyster
We recently did a photoshoot at Nashville’s Henrietta Red oyster bar showing off twenty different varieties of oysters for national magazine. (I’ll show that photo in a later post as it’s not public yet.) I …
Splashes
I’ve been working with freezing motion lately. Here are some recent compositions. I continue to marvel at what working with liquids can produce. There’s a certain amount of control but a healthy dose of random. …
Peanut Butter & Jelly
So many of my childhood memories are built around food. My mom made THE BEST peanut butter & jelly sandwiches when I was a kid. Her secret? Spreading margarine on both slices of bread before …
To Fly or Not to Fly
I get a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction when an art director comes to us with a concept she presented to her client and says “We want you to make this happen.” In this …
Kid’s Meals These Days
It’s no secret I’m kinda tough on my kids…or at least I try to be. I can’t help it, I was raised by a dairy farmer who didn’t have indoor plumbing until high school. Wait …
Standard Breakfast
I guess it could be raised as a question, “What is the standard breakfast?” For me eggs and bacon were pretty much the standard. Remind me to tell you about the time my brother and …
Fasting Mimicking
Until I met Austin Gil I had not heard of “fasting mimicking”. He has taken this concept and developed a program to help your body fast without completely depriving it during the process. In an …
Food Truck Friday – Southern Comfort
It’s a celebration of fried foods, bbq, grits, cornbread and collared greens! Today is all about the south. Being from Mississippi, I am a huge fan of southern cuisine. It is often described as comfort …
Breakfast Anyone?
It’s no secret…I’m a fan of breakfast. It’s almost like permission to have dessert for breakfast…waffles, pancakes, French toast. Egg and I, however, gives you choices to make breakfast actually healthy, if you’re into that …
Flying Food
For years I’ve had it in my mind that food was meant to fly. I’ve struggled with something called gravity—food seemed to prefer to fall, not fly. We’ve recently found an anti-gravity area in the …
Food Truck Friday – BBQ
Today’s food truck Friday is all about the southern food that so many love… barbecue. In the south BBQ is king. You cannot go 10 minutes between Texas and the Carolinas without seeing a BBQ …
Bacon & Eggs
I’ve lost count, but this is another “& food” from the series we started several months ago. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s foods that are “&”…you know, fish & chips, peaches …
Steakhouse – BOH
The term “back-of-house” (BOH) is commonly thrown around in the restaurant industry. It’s basically what happens behind the doors to the kitchen…food storage, prep, cooking, dish washing, etc. (There’s also “front-of-house” which is where the …
Shades of Yellow
For the most part, anyone who knows me, knows that yellow is one of my favorite colors. Things in my office are usually of the yellow variety: sharpies, electrical tape, sticky notes, tissue box, file …
Food Truck Friday – March
Today is going to be a short, but oh-so-sweet Food Truck Friday… because it’s all about the desserts. Most food trucks provide food to satisfy your savory side, but there are also some four wheeled, …
Salt & Pepper
Well, the series continues. Not much to say about this other than we got inspired by our ever growing collection of salt and pepper shakers. What we actually used for the photo shows how good …
Fun Dark Days
We’ve been taking a bit of a “dark” path recently with some of our food photography here. We often get requests from clients for bright airy natural light images. We enjoy creating summery scenarios here …
Behind the Scenes
2016 was a fun and productive year at Dreier & Company and our entire crew is geared up, ready and taking aim to make 2017 another year to remember! January has already flown by – …
Food Truck Friday – January
Let’s talk about politics for a minute… actually, lets not, haha! Nobody likes to hear about politics and I don’t want you to lose your appetite because it’s Food Truck Friday! Today I want to …
Spaghetti & Meatballs
Here we go again… another “&” food for our ampersand series. You know…Fish & Chips, Peaches & Cream, Spaghetti & Meatballs. We often get asked how we do these. Photoshop? Elaborate cutout templates? Nope, this …
Handmade Tortilla Chips
La Fiesta is a small artisan tortilla chip company with a history involving Michigan, a restaurant and a family. Today you can find these fantastic chips at some (lucky) grocery stores and via their website …
New Years Resolutions
With the passing of the holiday season and all the food/face-stuffing that accompanies it, haha, inevitably it’s time for New Year’s Resolutions… and particularly those that relate to diets. I know some regular gym-goers that …