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Next Stop: Temecula

I am excited to announce that my studio is moving to the sunny vibrant location of Temecula! I want to be closer to all of my favorite California clients plus my son in San Diego. Stay tuned for a fun, new chapter! The new studio will have many lifestyle sets, a video kitchen, and multiple still life and stop motion sets. Who wants to be the first to try it out?

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Octonuts Tasty Fun

We had a ball working with the Octonuts marketing team to create a photo library of their CPG brand and products using food photography and package photography. Their ideas for single ingredient, maximum flavor, fun, and tasty was very easy to articulate visually. We worked on a creative deck together to plan stop motion and still images with their products, flavor cues, and bright colors. Here are a few favorites.


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Toss!

Tossing up success with new Ace Wing Sauce and food and CPG images. The idea was to bring the brand alive visually, showing the home cook they can bring their own restaurant quality wing experience into their kitchen.

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Good Good Creative Deck

CPG still life art photographs of jelly, peanut butter, packaging cpg and more for social media, marketing and digital advertising for Good Good

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Buses Drive Green

Here is a shoot for a million dollar electric bus transportation company and their marketing team.

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Beautiful Inside and Out

Here is an overview reel of recipe steps made for a beauty channel. Making food reels for Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok is a great way to grow your channel.

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Marketing Food Demo Videos

B roll video for food marketing teams - show how to use your product for food marketing - Imagine you are in a meeting and have the perfect 30 second video to show how your product is used to elevate any menu item? Well, look what we did!

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Frappe

Salted caramel frappe is a delicious drink and our beverage photography goal was to show all the textures, colors, and flavor cues with this frosty drink.

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Super Foods

We see a lot of AI these days, and playing with the tools is always fun. We find AI most useful for creative deck inspiration and filling in the blanks for lifestyle backgrounds and ingredients that are out of season.

Check out some creative uses in this product photography shoot with supplements and superfoods

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Pomponio Ranch Meat

Working with grass-fed beef is always a delight. It is more sustainable and nutritious but it is also more lean. We have a lot of fun pairing herbs, garlic, seasonings, and vegetables when styling the meat. But the best part is when we get to design recipes and photograph them.

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Dressing Up

We designed a creative deck and storyboard with the GE marketing team for use on Amazon, Shopify, marketing brochures, and social channels.

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Snow Storm Cookies

Here is the most delicious recipe development project with food styling using all of our new props from Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel, and Williams and Sonoma. Plus it has our new sunlight lighting form from our food photography studio.

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Miso Heat New Sauce

This is a new condiment for MisoHeat and while it might seem easy to shoot a bottle hot, the challenge is the making the beautiful foil title light up while keeping the sauce true to color. We are so happy to watch them grow!

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GRWM

GRWM is a short acronym for Get Ready with Me on TikTok. Here we are showing all the prep for a Galentine evening using the latest Galentine bundle. The UGC product reel takes you across the table to view all of the products up close!

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