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Beautiful Food Photography
Beautiful food photography, or at least I think it is… :o) I love the food photography lighting. The reflections on the tomatoes give it a really fresh look that I really like.
Food Photographer Critique – Tacos
Food Photographer Critique This is an image I just got permission to release. I photographed this food about a month ago and was asked not to release it for a month, until the packaging was released. I have to be honest. I really like this shot and there’s a bunch of things I like about…
Sample From This Week’s Food Photography Shoot
Here’s a sample of this week’s food photography shoot Here’s just one sample of the food photography we did this week for Giant Eagle Markets, based in Pittsburgh PA. The idea was to shoot an outdoor feel, but since it showed this week, and we all didn’t care to freeze out butts off, we did…
Professional Food Photography Lighting Setup
Professional Food Photography Lighting Setup In various food photography forums, I’ve heard it asked “What’s your typical food photography lighting setup”? Even though I hesitate to answer this questions because there is no one perfect lighting setup that will work for all food shoots, there is a basic way I like to have my…
The Glare Light – Food Photography Lighting
Food Photography Lighting – The Glare Light In food photography, when you place a light at the “angle of refraction” from your camera, you can get some very interesting and useful effects. You end up with “glare”, or shine, or a reflection. Most novice food photographers try to eliminate reflections, but they can often do…
FSC Marketing Communications, Rege Sabol & Ed Flaherty
FSC Marketing Communications & Rege Sabol & Ed Flaherty I guess that when things get a little tight over at FSC Marketing (a Pittsburgh Advertising Agency) Rege Sabol just decides which vendor he just isn’t going to pay. It doesn’t seem to matter how good a job the vendor did, it just matters that they not complain too…
Understanding Food Photography Exposure
Understanding Food Photography Exposure There are a few forums out there where novice food photographers post their shot and ask for other people critique their efforts. On those pages, the number one mistake I see is photographers making bad exposures. Even though the subject of exposure pertains to all types of photography, I want…
Food Photography Critique – Ice Cream
Food Photography Critique- Ice Cream Shot I’m finding it really tough to keep up with my commitment to make a food photography blog post every Monday, especially since I worked a seventeen-hour day yesterday, the day I normally set aside for food photography blogging. I thought today I’d take an image from my portfolio and…
Lighting for Food Photography – Texture
Lighting for Food Photography – Creating Texture A food photographer’s job Like I mentioned in my earlier post “Lighting for Food Photography – Shape”, a food photographer’s job is to take a three-dimensional reality (the actual food in front of the camera) and translate that into a two-dimensional representation (food photo) and retain as much…