Food Styling is the most critical element of a stunning food photo and it is also very challenging and tough to learn. In this interview we talk with veteran food stylist and she teaches how you can learn food styling on your own.
Let’s Welcome Lisa Schroeder
Lisa Schroeder is a veteran food stylist and writer with 29 years experience in the food business. Starting out with her own catering business to pay for college, she graduated to promoting food products in corporate test kitchens, doing a stint as a marketing manager for a food company, and working as a food editor and stylist for a cookbook publisher. You can learn more about Lisa by clicking here.
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Food Styling with Lisa Schroeder
In this interview, Lisa shares lot of very crucial information on food styling. For anyone who is interested in improving their food photography and styling, this is a must listen. Here’s more on what is included in this interview:
- How to start learning food styling ?
- Food styling tips for food bloggers ?
- Food styling trends and how it has changed ?
- Fake food versus real food – do food stylists really use fake food these days?
- How to style and shoot boring food?
- When to use a straight tweezers and when to use slanted tweezers?
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Selected Photos of Lisa’s Work
Links Discussed in This Interview
- John Carafoli’s photography and styling book
- Lisa’s website
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Conference Website – In the interview Lisa mentions about the upcoming food styling and photography conference. This conference starts on June 24 , 2011.
- Conference details
Thank you Lisa
Thank you for your time Lisa. Listeners and Readers can visit Lisa’s website for more amazing information on food styling.
Lisa is great! I took one of her food styling/food photography courses a few years back. It was a great learning opportunity. She taught us some cool tricks of the trade. One of my favorite tricks was to use a clear gum stance to hold food in place that is round and may roll off the plate.