We’ve been having a discussion this question recently,
… what quality is essential to improve you photography?
And we’ve got a lot of different response. Some have said, its practice. Others have said vision. Still others have said basics are essential to improve photography. All of you have given many different answers.
Food 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.
Want to improve your food photography? Read quick. 29 tips to improve your food photography.
In last few months, we have heard from some great food photographers, chefs and food stylists. They shared with us how they advanced in food photography and gave us some very practical and useful tips that we all can use when we take food photos. Read on for 11 food photography tips.
This is part 2 of the 41 Food Photography Tips. Read the first 20 food photography tips here. Let’s continue and look at the next 21 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.
Food plating is a critical part of food photography. A great photographer may take great landscapes and jaw dropping wildlife photographs, but if the food is not plated well, there are very limited things a photographer can do. Understanding what makes a dish look appealing is not only crucial for a photographer but, in my opinion, mandatory.
In last few days, I found some wonderful articles on several topics related to food photography and food styling. These articles are very different. There are posts on how to read histogram on your camera and how to improve your photography using that, then there are articles on how to fold dinner napkins. One talks about things you need to know about memory cards and another one writes about buying plates and props for better food photos. In this post, I am sharing what I have found interesting.
We are having quite a blast on LearnFoodPhotography.com. First, readers listed their wonderful food photo blogs or Flickr accounts (if you haven’t yet, tell us where you post your food photographs). And then, we are having some intelligent discussion on our first food photo critique and tips for great food photos.
One of our readers, Viviane suggested 9 simple tips for better food styling. Here they are:
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.
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?
It is almost the time to pick up your camera and start shooting. But before you do that, there is one last thing remaining. Arranging and assembling the food, props and background.
“Those who fail to plan, plan to fail”
I am sure you have heard, read or even used this quote many times in life. Planning is important in food photography, just like in any other aspect of life. Photography without planning is like a random event. You may get a great picture once in a while by accident, but you won’t get that consistently.
What is the first thing you need to do to take a good photograph? Check the battery? Clean the lenses? Remove the lens cap perhaps? What do you think? Answer: None of the above. The one thing that comes at the very top of the list is understanding your subject. In photography, as you may already know, subject defines everything. Depending on the subject, your camera, your lenses, your technique, the background, the lighting requirement and even your process and its elements change. Knowing and studying the subject helps defining what features make it different. So the question is, how to simplify the process of understanding the subject?
