Posts Tagged ‘food photography’

My Food Photography Process at a Food Photo Shoot

Crackers Triscuits-19The process of taking a food photo of a subject is always evolving. At times I sketch few ideas in advance, at other times the final image appears organically without preparing for it in advance.

Often we get questions from readers for food photography interviews asking “how many photos do you take for one good one” or “how do you plan for your food photos” or something in these lines. In this post, I share experience from my recent photo shoot and specifically the thought process once creative juices start flowing. 

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12 2011

Food Photographer’s Guide to Working With Restaurants (by Jackie Alpers)

Food Photography at RestaurantFood photography and restaurants are inseparable. Each restaurant sooner or later will hire a food photographer. If you are seriously thinking about getting into professional food photography, knowing how to work with restaurants essential.

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02 2011

5 Lessons I Learned About Food Photography This Weekend

3342810827_7ea4f023d7This last weekend was a productive one. I got a photography book to review. The book is written for all photographers who classify themselves as intermediate or advanced beginner. Regardless of that, there were 5 great lessons that food photographers can apply in their work.

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01 2011

Anatomy of a Food Photography Shoot – Food Photography Interview with John Autry and Charlotte Autry

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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.

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12 2010

Happy Thanksgiving (and Last Minute Photography Shopping)

Happy ThanksgivingHappy Thanksgiving to readers from US and to those who just like eating turkey. And happy Black Friday in advance to you shoppers. Continue reading for last minute shopping deals…

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11 2010

4 Reasons Why You Should Not Become a Food Photographer

No Food PhotographyFrom almost an year since this blog was started, many of you have been coming here regularly to read about how to become a better food photographer. Some of you probably got inspired after looking at the work of some outstanding food photographers. In this post, I am going to share a secret with you.

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10 2010

29 Quick Tips to Improve Your Food Photography

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Want to improve your food photography? Read quick. 29 tips to improve your food photography.

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10 2010

Understanding Light for Better Food Photography

Lighting Set upLight is everything in photography. Light drives the f-stops and shutter speed and light tells what filters to use. Understanding light is crucial for photography and yet light is something that very few new photographers think about. Starting this post, we will talk about light and lighting for food photography.

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09 2010

How I Shot This – Sushi and Seafood Photos

Sushi PhotosWe are now accepting guest posts on food photography, food styling and related topics. If you are interested in writing for LFP, go to guest post page for more information.

This guest post and all the photos are from Martijn Smit, who lives in The Netherlands and is a semi professional food photographer and owner of www.culishots.com and www.martijn-smit.nl. In this post, Martijn explains how he shot these “naked sushi” photos and gives background about the thought process behind these wonderful photographs.

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08 2010

How to Photograph Desserts

Dessert PhotoFood photography is challenging. Every dish has its own challenges and so does taking dessert photos. From melting ice creams to layered cake, getting a perfect photo of dessert can be challenging and enlightening. So, how do you photograph a dessert? Here’s how…

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08 2010

Food Photography Can Increase Reader Engagement on Your Food Blog by 300% – A Simple Study to Understand How to Create a Successful Food Blog

Asian Food Photo Does outstanding food photography really build a successful food blog? What do you think? I thought it would be interesting to study some top recipe bloggers that have outstanding food photography and see how much difference does taking mouth-watering food photos make? Read further to see if food photos really contribute the success of a food blog.

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07 2010

How to Make a Strong Food Photo – 5 Food Photography Tips for Strong Photos

Red Cherries As a visual artist, a great photographer has a knack of summarizing her vision of the scene into one frame. She does this by understanding her vision and taking action to translate that vision into a frame. She decides what information to include and what to exclude. She thinks about where to put the subject and where the light should be. She knows how to manage her viewers’ attention.

We have talked about managing your viewers’ attention previously. In this post we talk about creating a strong photo and attention management in more detail.

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07 2010

One Extremely Important Question That Is Ignored By Aspiring Food Photographers (and Why You Need to Address it Now)

Pasta Raw

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.

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06 2010

41 Awesome Food Photography Tips from Food Bloggers Connect #FBC10 – Part 1: Lighting for Food Photography

Food Photography 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.

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06 2010

Food Photography and Food Styling Articles – Learn Food Photography Wrap Up

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:

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06 2010