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The Best Camera Lenses for Food Photography
With so many camera lenses out there, how do you find the best ones for food styling photography? You can think about photographing food as if you're taking its portrait. As such, you want to have a lens [more…]
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Stabilizing Devices for Food Photography
Keeping your camera stable to avoid focus problems in low-light or low ISO situations is an ongoing challenge for a food stylist or food photographer. Some photographers avoid any type of stabilizing device [more…]
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Artificial Lighting in Food Photography
Artificial lighting used in food photography includes continuous lighting that stays on while you shoot, and strobe lighting (essentially an off-camera flash). Factors to consider when choosing artificial [more…]
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Matching Angles to Food Subjects in Food Photography
Using angles when capturing food subjects in food photography can provide a different look and feel for your images. The key is to play around with the different angles and then focus in on the food. Some [more…]
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Placing Lights for Food Photography
You could be the greatest food stylist in the world, but no one will know if you don't light your photos properly. Knowing where to place lights for your shoot can really benefit the look and quality of [more…]
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Use Utensils in Food Styling and Food Photography
Nice utensils can be a beautiful and realistic complement to your photos of food. If shooting images at a restaurant, generally you’ll use the utensils the restaurant provides. If you’re shooting in your [more…]
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Use Paper Accents in Food Styling and Food Photography
Paper accents such as doilies and other decorations can present foods nicely for the camera in your food styling and food photos. These delicate papers can be the perfect little accent to an otherwise [more…]
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Managing Food Temperatures in Food Photography
Taking food photography is already difficult, but working under too warm or too cool conditions adds insult to injury. Despite your best efforts, the temperature can seriously affect the food you’re trying [more…]
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Choosing a Focus Model for Images in Food Photography
In food photography, the area of the food subject where you decide to focus sets the tone for the look of the overall image. You can use selective focus and have one area of the image in focus, or you [more…]
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Repeat Images for Added Depth in Food Photography
Repetition, or the echoing of a either food or a prop in a photo, can accentuate the graphic impact of your food styling and photography. Just as sometimes less is more, sometimes more is more. Use repetition [more…]
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Removing Imperfections in Your Food Photography
Due to the messy nature of food styling and photography, sometimes you’ll have an extra drip, bit, or speck of stuff that needs tidying up after the image has been shot. When you have a little problem [more…]
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Finding Foods for Stock Images in Food Photography
Part of the fun of food photography involves hunting for new places to find foods for stock images or blog photography. A gorgeous food photo starts with, well, gorgeous food. And you won’t find a better [more…]
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Transporting Gear for an Off-Site Food Photo Shoot
If you're not shooting your food photos in your own kitchen or studio, before you can begin styling food and shooting food photos, you have to pack up and transport your gear. Choose a camera bag to fit [more…]
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Arranging Lights to Shoot Photos of Food
Placing lights in just the right spots is a key ingredient to a successful image in food photography. If you arrange two duplicate lights on either side of your subject, exactly the same distance away, [more…]
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Enhance Images with Non-Food Items in Food Photography
Sometimes real foods simply don’t translate correctly when captured in pixels or on film. Fortunately, you can use non-food items in your food styling and photography to make your food and drink images [more…]
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Working with Produce in Food Photography
Fruits and veggies should appear as fresh as possible in your food photographs. But, you can run into some problems when styling and shooting produce images. Fortunately, there are some helpful solutions [more…]
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Use Plates and Linens for Food Styling and Food Photography
A housewares library that includes items such as plates and linens for a food photography business can help you style your photographs. As you gather dishes, napkins, and other items, set aside some space [more…]
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Use Decorative Accents in Food Styling and Food Photography
When the food alone isn’t creating the drama or intrigue you want in your food photography, using decorative accents — of color, shape, or texture — can give your images the extra impact you’re looking [more…]
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Keep Meats and Seafood Fresh in Food Styling and Photography
Meat, poultry, and seafood are less temperamental than some other foods in food styling and food photography, but they can still cause some issues. When shooting these foods, a few problems can crop up [more…]
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Adding Interest with Patterns and Shapes in Food Photography
Graphic components, such as shapes and patterns, can make your food photography more interesting. Consider using shapes and patterns when composing your photographs. The following sections discuss how [more…]
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Understanding the Angle of Approach in Food Photography
To understand the angle of approach in food photography, think about how a tripod works. The up and down tilt of a tripod head loosely translates to the up and down motion of your neck. Couple this with [more…]
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Adjusting Image Exposure in Food Photography
When shooting photos of food, some areas of a photo may need to be darkened or lightened. Use digital Dodge and Burn tools to fix these imperfections in Photoshop or another photo-editing program. [more…]
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Food Photography Equipment Checklist
Taking great food images requires a good bit of quality photographic equipment. Unfortunately, this equipment can be somewhat expensive. A hand-held point-and-shoot camera or smart-phone camera simply [more…]
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Shooting RAW and Other File Formats for Food Photography
In food styling and food photography, you can choose between different camera file formats, including RAW, JPEG, and TIFF. The RAW camera file format is just what it sounds like: It’s raw, barely processed [more…]
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Image Background Basics in Food Photography
A food stylist and food photographer's toolkit includes a collection of backgrounds, props, and tools you need to create beautiful settings to show off your food subjects. Backgrounds refers to two things [more…]
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