Wonderful Machine Best of 2025

Excited to be featured as one of the best photographers of the year from Wonderful Machine!

Favorite Photographers of the Year

To celebrate the new year, we asked some of our favorite photo editors, art producers, and creative directors to share with us their favorite photographers of 2025. We compiled that list, and in no particular order, we’re sharing them with you here!

See the list here: https://wonderfulmachine.com/article/personal-best-2025/

Photo Shoot Recap Junkless Foods!

Junkless Foods is such a cool brand to work with. They have a variety of tasty granola bars we’ve been able to photograph, and most recently their new Protein Bars! So yummy! Other than helping them with their packaging photography we’ve captured some fun lifestyle shots for them to showcase their products and packaging in other fun ways. Check them out at your local supermarket.

Thanks To The Crew!

Studio: Space28

Assist: Zach Felts and Daniel Cochran

PA: Autumn Baxter

Food Stylist: Hadley Sui

Producer: Carolyn Somlo

Retoucher: DayMoon Studios

Models: Wilhelmina

Featured Photographer on the DT Blog

Excited to share for the month of July I’m the featured photographer on Digital Transitions blog! You can read the full Q&A and see some of my recent work HERE

“This month, we couldn’t be more excited to feature the incredible work of our client, commercial food and beverage photographer Felicia Perretti. She is located in New York City with a specialty in advertising, packaging, editorial, and video for food and beverage clients across the country. Felicia’s extensive passion for the food and beverage industry remains a constant in her daily life and has guided her professional career.”

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Felicia Perretti is a commercial food and beverage photographer and director based in New York City. She works nationally with food and beverage clients in advertising, packaging, editorial, and video. She has worked with food and drink in all shapes and knows how to craft the right team to get the job done! Her passion for food and beverage shine through on set as well as outside of work in her everyday life. Whether it’s trying new restaurants, traveling, or cooking with her husband Joe. Send her an email or give a call to discuss your next project, she would be more than happy to chat!

B.T.S. Recipe Videos For Alli

Working with a group of creative, energetic, and talented people is what making a successful video is about. The time put into planning, executing, and producing makes that final piece all worth it. These are just some of first thoughts that come to mind working with ad agency Weber Shandwick, my food stylist Lisa Homa, props Kristine Trevino, hair and makeup Ananda Khan, camera crew of Good Boy Media, and talent Amy Castle. We produced beautiful recipe videos of the Alli brand highlighting their healthy lifestyle. The lighting throughout the pieces was bright with a natural daylight feel. We were able to produce this look for the whole day. Amy Castle’s personality shined through in these pieces running through the script with her. In the recipes we shared how easy it is to eat healthy and enjoy cooking! Check out the videos here. ALSO on my MOTION section of my website. BTS Stills by Kelvin Williams

BTS: Food Photography Workshop at The Art Directors Club

What a great event and turnout for this past weekend's food photography workshop. It was great to share my experiences and tips I've learned over the years to help the students improve on their own photography. We had a packed afternoon of talking lighting setups, camera programs, and the importance of styling. I did a live demonstration on set shooting and building a sandwich. I also discussed the importance of hiring and working with a food stylist as well as a prop stylist.

Everyone broke out to separate tables building their own sets with props supplied and also making their own sandwich to photograph! You can see a time lapse below of the days events.

I would love to continue this workshop at other locations in New York City as well as New Jersey, and Philadelphia. If you are a food or prop stylist and want to collaborate on this please reach out! Also any studio spaces that would like to host us.

Phase One iQ260

Part of running a business is to grow your business and add value to your “product.”

This is a very exciting time in my business where I’ve increased the quality of my photography making me more valuable to the client. I’ve purchased a medium format camera system that creates images you could never get with a simple DSLR camera. The color bit depth is incomparable, and the incredible detail in the image with the increased megapixel captures are just some of the simple differences but huge game changers in being a professional photographer. I know my clients present and future will instantly see the difference in what I can offer them and in the long run create beautiful images.

http://www.phaseone.com/en/Camera-Systems/IQ2-Series/IQ2-Features.aspx