Food Photography Gear & Tools

Cutting Boards

Cutting Boards

Food Photography Props – Cutting Boards I’ve just added a new feature to the website.  It’s a photo gallery the studio’s collection of Cutting Boards.  In the future, I hope to add additional galleries of food photography props, but for now, this is it!  

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Photographing Food Without a Tripod

Photographing Food Without a Tripod

Shooting Food Without a Tripod Traditionally, I have always used a tripod when photographing food.  I’ve done it this way over the years, for several reasons… 1. Until recently, I’ve use a view camera, with a digital back, to photograph food.  Have you ever tried to hand hold a view camera?  It’s impossible. 2. Most…

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Food Photography of Flat Bread Pizza

Food Photography of Flat Bread Pizza

Food Photography of Flat Bread Pizza I just finished up another successful, fun, food photo shoot with great clients, super stylists, and my second-favorite photo assistant.  We got a lot of great shots done and were very productive.  The funny thing is, that I keep trying to tweak my lighting style a little, and I…

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I found a great new tool to help promote my food photography business

Save Time, Grow Traffic, with CoSchedule I found a great new tool to help promote my food photography business, and it’s called CoSchedule. CoSchedule is a little like Hootsuite, if you know what that is, but much better.  It has a lot of capabilities that I don’t take advantage of,  since I’m a one-man-band, but the…

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How To Choose A Food Photography Lens

How To Choose A Food Photography Lens

What’s the best camera lens for digital food photography? “What is the best lens for food Photography?” was a post that I recently came across in a popular photography forum.  After reading the various replies, I started to realize that most novice photographers are under the impression that there is a “best lens” for photographing…

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Mixing Light Sources In Food Photography – Q&A

Mixing Light Sources In Food Photography – Q&A

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…

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Best Food Photography Camera

Best Food Photography Camera

A food photographer’s opinion about what makes the best food photography camera This isn’t an article about which is better Canon or Nikon, it’s about 35mm DSLR,  medium format, or view camera.  Like most other professional photographers, I have my own biases, but unlike many others, I’ve used all three types of cameras.  So after…

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