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?
This is a guest post by Miriam and writes at her recipe blog. If you would like to write a guest post about food photography or food styling, please send me a note by clicking here.
I first saw her photos when she shared food photo with us. The use of depth of field really made this photo appealing. In this post Miriam explains about her equipment, set up and other aspects of food photography for her food photo above. Let’s welcome Miriam.
It is that time of the year again. By this time, most of us forget our new year resolutions. I bet most of you decided to pursue some photography goal, only a few of you may be working towards those goals. Today is the 90th Day of this year. This is a good time to stop for few moments and ask yourself – what have I done in the last 90 days? Has my photography skills improved?
Ready to download the Food Photography eBook? I know many of you are waiting for this eBook to be released. Some of you have emailed me and suggested some wonderful topics and yet others have inquired about it. Here’s the status of the eBook.
Have you ever cooked? “Cooked what?” you may ask. Well… anything. Absolutely anything. Something as simple as boiling a pasta and putting sauce in it. How do you decide how much sauce to put or how much to boil that pasta? What about how much black pepper to add? Here’s how: you either know what black pepper tastes like or you know what excess of it might do to the dish.
A cook needs to know what ingredients of a recipe might do to its taste even before cooking it. So, does a photographer.
Inspiration. Its amazing how that works. In this post, we have 11 people whom I have found inspirational when it comes to food photography.
And just like that it is time to bid 2009 a good bye. 2009 was a blast for us. I hope it was for you too. Among other things, the best thing that happened was we started LearnFoodPhotography. In just few months, we have received so many emails, so many tweets and several notes that we are really excited to be in this place. All I want to say is Thank you for all the love you have showered upon us. Here are the 10 most read post by our readers.
Are Your Cranberries Red Enough?Ever had that feeling that those cranberries or strawberries you shot aren’t red enough? May be the apple pie you shot seemed a little – well – yellow. One of our readers sent me a tweet about her experience with food photography sharing sites. In this post we explain why exactly is your food isn’t looking good enough.
In this second part of “Understanding Element of Arts to Improve Food Styling and Photography”, we continue our journey to improving our skills. In this post, we look at the remaining three elements of art – color, space and texture. These elements, when used appropriately, can drastically improve your food presentations and photographs.
How else would you style this Flan? Would you put a flower or will you use cream? What kind of plate will you use? Circular like this? or a Rectangular plate? What about Penne Pasta? How would you style Penne Pasta? Would you make a giant heap in a plate? What type of plate will choose? Square? or Circular plate?
Workshops are great way to learn, in fact in some workshop you always learn more and retain better with hands on training. Penny De Los Santos conducted a food photography workshop in Seattle on December 11th 2009. In this post I am sharing 4 important lessons that I learnt from this workshop.
There are around 600 different shapes of pasta. Tube like, hair like, flat noodles, twisted ones and more. I believe, pasta is also one of the most popular food and something that can be easily made at home. If you want to practice food photography, pasta seems to be a good candidate to prepare and shoot at home. Below are 8 different pasta shots, think about how these photos were taken. Think about how the camera was placed and where the light was. Don’t just look, observe.
I want to share this secret, the amazing way to improve your food photography. This is the fastest way to improve your skills. No matter how many books you read, no matter how many courses you take, no matter how many great food photos you look at, none of that will help you improve if you don’t know this secret. Are you ready to find this out ??
All the planning and thinking and positioning and the hard work will reward you now, only if you pick the camera and make a great photograph. So grab the camera and start shooting. Simple enough right?
