Two Biggest Food Photography Lighting Mistakes I swear I must see a million food photos a day. I see them on Pinterest, on Facebook, and on Tumblr and I see the same lighting mistakes over and over again. When you’re shooting food photography, there are hundred little decisions that go into making a successful image….
6 Steps To Great Food Photography Lighting To me, lighting is probably THE most important aspect of food photography. I used to have a stylist that once told me that I “could make a turd on a paper plate, look great”. Thank God we never had to test his theory, but it was quite a…
Food Photography Critique Video #1 – Apple Cider I thought I’d try something new here. I’ve put together this food photography image critique, via a screen capture program, thinking that I could use the cursor to point out exactly what it was that I was talking about. I think it worked. The reason that I…
Mixing Light Sources in Food Photography – Q&A When using more than one light how do you deal with the colour differences.? Do you use a colour temperature meter to check the colour temperature of each light or gel by eye ( guess and by God ) ? Or since they are less powerful than…
Good and Bad Reflections in Food Photography Studio photographers spend large portions of their careers finding ways to eliminate sheen, glare, and reflections from the subjects. I agree that it’s true that there is such a thing as “bad” glare, but studio photographers do themselves a disservice by eliminating too much glare. As a matter…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In professional food photography, it’s the little things that make the difference… I can’t tell you how many times novice photographers have asked me the question “ What’s the best way to light food?”, and I always reply, it depends… And it does. It depends on what way the food faces in the photo, what…
