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Lighting For Food Photography – Shape
Intro To Lighting for Food Photography Lighting for food photography is a subject near and dear to my heart. To me, it is THE most important thing about commercial / advertising food photography. When you’re shooting ads or anything where’s there’s a team involved, you end up making compromises. This is also the case with…
Food Photography Tip – Photographing Food Using Real Fire
Food Photography Tip – Shooting Fire Okay… The food photo shown above isn’t the one we did in the video, but it was done using the same technique. A apologize in advance for the poor video production quality. Basically, I just set up a go-pro, turned it on and then edited in a few…
Food Photography Shoot – Behind The Scenes With Darcy
Food Photography Shoot – Behind The Scenes With Darcy Here are a few photos from today’s food photography shoot with a great bunch of people including food stylist AnneMarie and Art Director Darcy. Darcy let me play a little today… :o)
Food Photography Props
Food Photography Props If you are someone who appreciates good food photography, you’ll soon come to the conclusion that a big part of the success of a particular photo is the food photography props in the shot. Food photography props do several things for the photo. Their main jobs are to set the mood and…
Ian’s Food Photography Shoot – Behind the scenes
Ian’s Food Photography Shoot – Behind the scenes Here are some photos from a recent food photography shoot we did for Ian’s. We ended up shooting pork chops, stuffing, crab cakes, and salads! A fun time was had by all… :o) Food stylist Cathy Walsh take a bite out of crime. Freelance photo…
Food Photography Lighting – High Key
Food Photography Lighting – High Key — What is high-key lighting for food photography If you ask ten different food photographers, you’ll get probably get tend different answers about what it is exactly, that makes for high-key lighting. It’s very subjective, but here is my definition and it’s not all about lighting. For example,…
Food Photography for Catering Company
Food Photography for Catering Company Here’s a recent food photo I did for a local catering company. The headline to the ad has something to do with “Uncommon” food, so I needed to produce something a little out of the ordinary. The Chef did a great job in coming up with some unusual food dishes,…
Food Photography Tip – Crumb Strategy for Casual Looking Food Photos
Food Photography Tip – Crumb Strategy for Casual Looking Food Photos How to make your food photography look more Casual There are times when a professional food photographer will want to have everything in his photo to be absolutely perfect, and then there will be other times when he will want things to look a…
Pittsburgh Food Photographer Portfolio Slide Show
Food Photography Portfolio I’m working on a video slide show of my food photography portfolio. This is a work-in-progress, and I’ll probably be adding either a voice over or maybe some music, and there’s a couple of changes that I already want to make, so don’t be too critical… :o) Tell me what you think……