"Hmm. Control, control. You must learn control." – Yoda
Her viewers’ mind, The great photographer controls. Control you must, successful you will be. Okay! Enough of Yoda English. All jokes aside, all well-known successful photographers know this – “Jedi Mind Tricks” work. Always.
Food presentation is tough. Who would be a better person to talk about food plating and presentation than a chef trained at French Culinary Institute. In this interview, we interview Adriana Mullen on how to make food look good for the camera. She also shares some things that should be avoided both artistically and legally.
What does this photo tell you? Think about it. Think hard. What is this photo communicating? Do you have the answer for this? NO? Stop reading any further and observe the photo. Answer the questions. Got it? Now look at the next photo.
Light is the most important element of photography. Without light there is no photography. Understanding light and how to use it is important not just for food photographer, but any type of photographer. In this interview, we talk with Liz Vidyarthi about lighting, what she uses for lighting for night photo shoots and her tips on taking food pictures.
This is part 2 of the 41 Food Photography Tips. Read the first 20 food photography tips here. Let’s continue and look at the next 21 tips…
Two great food photographers, Mowie Kay (read his food photography interview) and Meeta Khurana (read her interview on how to become better food photographer and choosing a background for your food photo) spoke about food photography in Food Blogger Connect. If you were not able to be in the audience, I bet you wanted to. Me too. So here are some great tips from these two outstanding photographers, courtesy @mayssamaha.
This just gets exciting everyday. In just last one month, we received more than thousand new readers. Welcome to all the new readers, and for the readers that have been here for a while, thanks for sticking with us. In last five months, we published some food photography and styling articles that received some good response. Here are some of them:
This is part three of the common problems in photography series. In the first part we talked about the problem of overexposed photos and in the second part, we looked at underexposed photograph and their solution. These two problems relate directly to the quantity of light getting in the camera. In this post though, we talk about a different kind of problem.
Every so often you meet someone that inspires you so much that you are drenched with motivation. Now imagine if you could know the story of this person; how did she start food photography; what motivates her and how she developed her food photography to a level that she started photographing professionally. In this interview, you will learn about the process of how to go about making food photos and a high-level workflow for post processing.
They say every photo tells a story. But what is story telling? How do you tell a story? This professional food photographer will share how to do just that. How to shoot raw food? You love photography gear don’t you? This professional photographer tells us about her photography gear.
I first saw this photo on our share your food photo page. What a wonderful photo I thought. I loved the use of color in this photograph. In this post photographer Andriy explains about the concept, his gear, set up and other aspects of food photography for the food photo above.
G had made some nice chocolate mousse today and I was planning to shoot some dessert photos. G started assembling the dessert in a clean glass, a brown layer of something followed by a white layer of white chocolate, followed by another layer and layer by layer the dessert was assembled. She topped it with whip cream and some strawberries. It was looking good. Now, how bad a photo can be when subject itself is so beautiful?
A great background in a food photo is very important. A carefully chosen background improves food photographs to a great extent. Meeta is one of the few food photographers who has a special skill in choosing the right background for food photos. In second part of our interview with Meeta, she shares with us how she selects background for wonderful food photographs and the thought process that Meeta goes through to pick up a background for her photos. We posted the first part of interview with Meeta K yesterday, let’s continue our interview with Meeta.
There are not many books on food photography and food styling. There are few food photography and styling resources available online, most of it very basic and superficial. But even with incomplete and basic information on food photography, some swimming against the current and improve their food photography skills and become one of the few prominent artists. In this post, we bring you a story of one person who started learning food photography from scratch and became, in my opinion, one of the well-known food photo bloggers to watch.
In last few days, I found some wonderful articles on several topics related to food photography and food styling. These articles are very different. There are posts on how to read histogram on your camera and how to improve your photography using that, then there are articles on how to fold dinner napkins. One talks about things you need to know about memory cards and another one writes about buying plates and props for better food photos. In this post, I am sharing what I have found interesting.
