Learn Food Photography & Styling Blog

We 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.

Food 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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I first saw this photo on our share your food photo page. What a wonderful photo I thought. I loved the use of color in this photograph. In this post photographer Andriy explains about the concept, his gear, set up and other aspects of food photography for the food photo above.

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How do you read a photograph? When a expert photographer looks at the photograph taken by someone else, what do you think goes in her mind? Do you want to know how the experts do it? Do you want to learn how to read a photograph?

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