Basic Food Photography

An upcoming event...

Basic Food Photography

                 Date     :    Sunday, 10th October 2010

                 Time     :    1:00pm - 5:00pm                     

                 Venue   :    Heritage Hotel Ipoh (tentative)

                 Fee      :    Single RM150.00

                                             or 

                                  Two in a team RM250.00

            
                Speaker:     En. Ali Mohd Noor,
                                 Food Styling and Food Photography Blog
                                 UiTM, Shah Alam

The workshop will be conducted for 4 hours with elements of theory, demonstration and hands-on. Participants will be exposed to basic techniques of food photography. The following elements will be focused throughout the workshop:

                        I) Introduction to basic food photography
                        II) Purpose of food photography
                        III) Setting up for food photography
                        IV) Basic camera setting for food photography
                        V) Concept, object, props and styling
                        VI) Angle of shoot in food photography

Who should attend this workshop?

Beginner in photography and those who would like to explore the food photography are welcome. Food enthusiast that love to snap pictures of their creation and anyone that feel food can communicate are equally welcome.

What to bring along?

   1) Digital camera or a decent DSLR camera 

   2) Laptop (be sure you have installed your camera software),
   3) A tripod (bring extra if you got any),
   4) Plate (white fancy plate to present your food)
   5) Food product (dessert, cakes, fruits... etc.)
   6) Linen of any colour (table cloth, table runner...etc)
   7) Any props that you think appropriate

Anything else? ---- Off course pen, pencil, notebook and your good self (please come with an open mind and you will be enjoying the session with us)


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Any questions regarding this event, please post under comment in this post. I will address it here is well.

Traditional Malay Pulut Kuning Rice as Wedding Cake...and an additional step to Moth Orchid

Finally someone has responded to my challenge! Here's the traditional Malay pulut rice (glutinous tumeric rice) made into a wedding cake!

Its 2 tier with the top tier off-centre to enable better placing of the gumpaste flowers...2 pink peonies and 11 medium sized moth orchids.

These are individual portions moulded to look like mini cakes...together with their usual accompaniments on top.

An additional step to add to my moth orchid tutorial . Rest a flower wire on the foil to alleviate the feeler like thing at the ends of the labellum. This make it easier for dusting.

Colours used for dusting include Bumble Bee, Sunflower, Aurora and Scarlet's Velvet.

Sugarflour Roadshow and MCDC Ipoh's first gathering

A big thank you to all that has participated in the Sugarflours and MCDC Ipoh event and made it a very successful first gathering among fellow cake decorators in Ipoh, the outskirts, and from as far as Penang. Those deserving a mention here are Haslinda and Joe for manning one of the demo counters, Vivian and Lea for helping at the DIY cupcake decorating counter, our team of receptonists, the Sugarflours team for half the effort in the whole event, and lastly, Kong Choon Chuen from Photo Zone for the photos below.

Pink and white theme cake with Sugarflours lucky draw prizes.

Me at the dusting counter.

Joe...standing in for our receptionists.

Product display area.

Lisa manning the cashier.

The MCDC Ipoh tean in pink and Sugarflours team in white.

Sugarflours will be in Ipoh!

Another event organised to bring cake decorating up a level in our stress free small town called Ipoh! Organised by Sugarflours and MCDC Ipoh on Facebook.

Event : Delightfully Sugar

Date : Saturday, 26th June 2010

Time : 1pm - 5pm

Venue : Sky Lounge, 17th Floor, Tower Regency Hotel, Ipoh

Entrance Fee: RM30.00 per person

Highlights of the event are the 5 demonstration counters which will be running throughout the event. The counters are:

• Colour your world with Lustre Dust
• Ideas with Textured Rolling Pins
• Fun & Flexibility with Patchwork Cutters
• Celcakes - Pearls & Laces are for Princesses!...or not...
• Designer Shoes & Handbags using Petal Crafts

Additional goodies to look forward to includes

• Special discounts for products
• Lucky draws
• Goody bags

Email me for more information or to get your tickets...only 100 tickets to be sold.

With Pn. Wati Bakar, owner/founder of Sugarflours.

Gum Paste Orchid Class in Ipoh

The cake enthusiast community in Ipoh had the pleasure of learning from visiting instructor, Liew Yoke Moy from Cake Art and Sugarcraft at a two-day Gum Paste Orchid class. Through the forum Malaysian Cake Decorators' Club (MCDC), created by Joanne Fam to facilitate learning and sharing of the joy of baking and decorating among the cake crazy community in Malaysia, we have created MCDC Ipoh, a link in Facebook to further connect and bring happening cake events our little peaceful (jamless) town, Ipoh which is 2 hours drive from KL.

This being the first event organised under MCDC Ipoh, we had it at my home. Yoke Moy was wearing a mask as she was having a slight flu the day before. After sleeping it off in KL, and making an early morning journey, here she is in Ipoh ready to start class immediately upon arrival. Enthusiastic teacher breeds equally enthusiastic students!

Day 1 consist of cutting, thinning and veining of petals.

Day 2, dried petals all ready to be dusted with petal dust.

Steaming to set the colours.

My 4 orchids!

Yoke Moy is willing to conduct similar classes again in Ipoh if there is a demand for it. Thanks to all my Wilton student who have attended...this is a highly recommended next step upon completion of Wilton Course 3. And also to Ling Tze, another fondant, gum paste player all the way from Penang.

Chocolate Making with Wilton Candy Molds

Date : Saturday, 24th April, 2010

Time : 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Type of Class : Demonstration

Fee : RM30 per person

Gum Paste Moth Orchid and Pulut Kuning

Rice, the staple food among South East Asian countries, undoubtly plays a significant role in festive occasions. Here in Malaysia, the Pulut Kuning (Yellow Glutinous Rice) is served during festivities such as weddings, birthdays and thanksgivings. Its accompaniments are either curry chicken or rendang.

During Malay weddings, it is customary for the wedding couple to feed each other with Pulut Kuning. It signifies that the groom is capable of providing for the bride, and the bride is capable of preparing the provisions...in short, one provides the food and the other cook the food. Siti Zaiton Ismail,Ph.D 2009

We see more adoption of the wedding cake into weddings nowadays, together with the cake cutting and feeding of the cake. This being the 21st century, the feeding should now represents a promise to support each other and work towards the beginning of a shared life.

The Pulut Rice is also known as Nasi Kunyit (Tumeric Rice) among the peranakan (descendants of early Chinese immigrants) community. It has been incorporated into the full moon celebration for when a baby reaches one month old. This is when Nasi Kunyit, chicken curry, red eggs and red cakes will be distributed to family and friends.

In Indonesia, particularly, the Balinese and Javanese has their Nasi Kuning (Yellow Rice), also known as Tumpeng during ceremonies. The difference is that, it is rice cooked in coconut milk, rather than glutinous rice, is cone shaped, and accompanied by much more side dishes. Tumpeng has is also seen to be shaped in tiers, like a wedding cake.

The gum paste moth orchid pictured above is ordered by Diana to decorate the Pulut Kuning during her parents' wedding anniversary. A blend of Western and Eastern.

Anyone game for a 3 tiered Pulut Kuning as their wedding cake? I'm all ready to decorate it!