How Do Professional Food Photographers Find Clients? It used to be, in the old days, that a professional food photographer would call up a potential client and make an appointment to stop in and show the prospect his printed portfolio. Now-a-days, things are different, and photographers must find new ways of meeting and maintaining clients….
Remarkable Food Photography Article I’ve written an article on how to improve your food photography by making each element of your photo more “remarkable”. In the 2000 word article, I analyze the above photo and talk about its strengths and weaknesses. My theory is that a photo can be thought of in terms of its…
Food Photographer’s Style If you examine food photography as closely as I tend to, you immediately become aware that different photographers had distinct styles of shooting food. I’ve often wondered just how styles become apparent in those food photos. What is it specifically that make a photographer’s images look similar to constitute a “style”. Here’s…
A Unique Way to Market Your Food Photography Services I’ve been really busy this week. I was out of town on a multi-day shoot and then when I got back, I had two solid days of shooting after than. And then, yesterday (Saturday), I started to finalize the details on a redesign of a Directory…
Advanced, One-On-One, Food Photography Workshop Are you interested in making the leap into Professional Food Photography? Are you a professional commercial or wedding photographer now, and want to expand into food photography, but don’t feel confident enough to make the jump? Maybe you just need to understand food photography lighting a little better or maybe…
Email Marketing For Food Photographers – My Feb. 2015 Emailer Since so much of marketing for a food photographer is trial and error, I thought it might be useful to you if you could learn from my mistakes. My idea is to show you my latest emailer and to discuss what I did, why I…
8 Reasons EVERY food photographer needs to test shoot. If you think portfolio development is something only new food photographers go through, you’re totally wrong. It’s a never-ending process, and to tell you the truth, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I love testing. Yes, it’s a bitch to find the time, but once…
Break Into Food Photography as a Social Media Photographer So you want to break into the food photography industry and you’re not quite sure how to go about it. I have an idea. It’s an untested idea, mind you, but I bet it will work. Read what I have to say and please tell me…
Food Photography Pricing Checklist The most important thing to do when estimating a food photography job, is to feel out the client’s expectations before you start to come up with any numbers. This is best done over the phone and not by email. Questions may occur to you as the conversation develops. You want to…
How much should I charge for my food photography? Sorry, but there are just way too many variables to answer a question about pricing food photography, for a simple answer here. It all depends on how good you are, how long you’ve been doing this, your location, the competition, how much you have invested in…
