Announcing 31 Days of Food Photography Tips

Food Photography Tips Today we are very excited to announce a 31-Day series on this food photography blog to improve your food photos. We are calling it “31 Days of Food Photography Tips” or 31DFTP.

Starting July 1st, we will post a food photography lesson every day with a simple assignment for the next 31 days. So what is it going to be like?

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06 2011

How to Create Better Food Photos and Write Better in 3 Days – With Plate to Page Team

Plate to Page Instructors Plate to Page Team – From Left: Jeanne, Ilva, Jamie and Meeta

Food Photography and writing are both essential for a great food blog. In this interview, Plate to Page team shares their knowledge on how to take better food photos and how to write better.

They also give away an exercise that you can use to improve your food blogging and food photography skills. Don’t miss this interview.

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06 2011

Photographing Macarons and Chef Portraits: A Food Photographer’s Diary #8

Food Photographers Diary

This is a guest post series by photographer Evi Abeler. If you would like to write about food photography on learn food photography, visit guest post page to learn more.

In this post of food photographer’s diary, Evi shares a story of macaron photography. As a food photographer, there are instances when you may have to shoot portraits as well. Let’s hear from Evi, how she took macaron photos and portraits for chef.

7 Tips to Practice Food Photography Without Cooking Food

Sushi Photos Food photography is an art of photographing food. But what if you don’t have any food to photograph? What if you don’t like to cook or don’t want to cook? Is that what’s stopping you from practicing food photography?

In this post we talk about 7 tips on how to practice food photography even if you don’t have cooked food.

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06 2011

A Must-Have Food Photography Book: Plate to Pixel Review

plate to pixelFew weeks ago, I received Pixel to Page book from the publisher for review. This book, on food photography is written by Helene Dujardin, a pastry chef turned food blogger. Helene is an accomplished food blogger and has photographed for many cookbooks. She regularly teaches food photography in food photography workshops.

First Impressions

When I opened the package and looked at the book, my first impression was that there is lot of content in the book. Looking at the table of content, Helene packaged a lot of information in this 288-page book.

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06 2011

How To Learn Food Styling: Interview with Lisa Golden Schroeder

Food Stylist Lisa Golden Schroeder 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.

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06 2011

Getting Started with Stock Food Photos: A Food Photographer’s Diary #7

Food Photographers DiaryThis is a guest post series by photographer Evi Abeler. If you would like to write about food photography on learn food photography, visit guest post page to learn more.

Have you been taking a lot of food photos for yourself and not published them? In this post Evi shares with us how you can put those images to good use.

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05 2011

How To Get Started with Your Food Photography Business: Interview with Ron Goldman

Ron Goldman Interview

The thought of starting a food photography business brings lot of questions. How will I get clients? How should I charge them? How should I keep clients coming back? These questions can make or break your career as a food photographer. In this interview, Ron Goldman shares his experience as he started photography and got his first client.

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05 2011

Congratulations to the Winners – Free Food Photography Class a Think Tank Bag and More…

successful business woman on a laptopWe launched our first contest that was very simple to enter. Ask a question for food photographer Ron Goldman and win these:

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05 2011

Food Photo Shoot with a Food Stylist: A Food Photographer’s Diary #6

Food Photographers Diary This is a guest post series by photographer Evi Abeler. If you would like to write about food photography on learn food photography, visit guest post page to learn more.

In the first post, Evi shared how she got started and how you can start in food photography. In second post, we learned about food photography portfolio event. Third post was about first photography shoot for restaurant. In her fourth post, Evi showed us her food photography studio and in the fifth post, she shared her first food video.

In this post, Evi shares experience from her first photo shoot with food stylist Laurie Knoop.

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First Trials at Videography: A Food Photographer’s Diary #5

Food Photographers Diary This fifth post in the series is about creating videos. Evi Abeler shares her first videos created while photographing for a restaurant.

How to Light Your Food Photos Like Michael Ray: Interview with Michael Ray

Interview with Michael Ray foodportfolio.comIn this interview, we talk with one of the first food photographer who started sharing information about food photography on the web. We learn about artificial lighting for food photography from Michael Ray, person behind a famous food photography website.

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04 2011

My Food Photography Studio and Gear: A Food Photographer’s Diary #4

This is a guest post series by photographer Evi Abeler. If you would like to write for learn food photography, visit guest post page to learn more.

This is fourth post in the food photographer’s diary series. In the first post, Evi shared how she got started and how you can start in food photography. In second post, we learned about food photography portfolio event. Third post was about first photography shoot for restaurant.

In this post, Evi invites us in her studio and shows us her photography gear. Read the rest of this entry →

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04 2011

Win a Food Photography Class, a Think Tank Photo Bag and more…

Urban-Disguise-70-Pro-1We are teaming with the Perfect Picture School of Photography for our first contest and to give away THREE different prizes for this simple contest.

I will be interviewing Ron Goldman, photographer and food photography instructor, on May 4th and you can win a prize just for submitting a question for this interview and spreading the word.

Here are the Three Prizes

So let me tell you what you can win.

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04 2011

How to Create an Iconic Image: With David duChemin

DSC_7036-EditedFew weeks back, I got a great opportunity to attend a photography workshop taught by David duChemin, the best selling author of photography book Within The Frame. In this all day seminar, David talked a lot about vision and how to communicate it vision. This was a very enlightening and inspirational talk.

During this workshop I also got a chance to interview David duChemin backstage and talk about creating an iconic image.

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04 2011