What a great year it was. We started interviewing food photographers and stylists and chefs in March 2010. In about 9 months, it was a pleasure to interview 15 very passionate individuals who love food photography and styling. In these interviews they shared a lot of food photography and styling, and we hope you did too.
This is one of the very special interviews. Our guests explain the anatomy of a food photography shoot in great detail. If you are serious about food photography, you will not want to miss this interview.
Who could teach you how to become a better food photographer than someone who self-taught this skill to herself? About five years ago, Lara had a job with an IT giant and she took a break. In about five years she became a well known name in food photography industry. Let’s learn from Lara herself how to grow as a food photographer.
This past weekend Seattle had something very hot going – International Food Blogger Conference. The big hall became even hotter at around 11:00 am Pacific time on Sunday 29th Sept. That’s when Penny De Los Santos came on the stage to talk about food photography, give some tips and share her mouth-watering food images. Her photos were making the audience drool and some were even slurping air.
Are you serious about food photography? Do you want to become a food photographer and earn money doing that? In this interview Lucas Zarebinski shares his thoughts about how to get in the photography industry and how to learn from the pros.
There are some people that inspire you and teach you a lot even in very few moments you spend with them. I had a wonderful opportunity to interview one such person. This interview is not to be missed. About 40 minutes of pure food photography talk with one of the great food photographer.
Few days back, we published part 1 of food photography interview with Ilva Beretta. We talked about how to choose the props, why we need props and how to collect them. In this interview we talk about 4 ways to build your food props collection. In this post, Ilva also shares her thought process of using props in her food photographs.
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.
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.
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.
This interview is packed with lot of great information. Each minute of Matt’s information can be a post in itself. I am very excited to publish this interview. Matt has shared a lot of very useful information with us. He goes into lot of details on telling a story and reading a photo. He shares his tips on lighting and he talks about post processing. I would even go as far as saying that this interview is like a food photography book that will teach you lot of things about choosing props, setting the scene and photographing food.
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.
Last few days have been very exciting. Lot of new things have been happening. One of them as we talked about previously, is interviews with food photographers. I have started interviewing some famous food photographers. I was fortunate to get some time from a well known food blogger for this interview to talk about food photography and secret of good looking food photos.
