101 Best Food Photographers – (upgraded from The 100 Best Food Photographers) This Blog post has been made into a “page” entitled “100 best food photographers” and all updates will be made there. The following is a list of the 101 best food photographers in the entire universe, according to me and only me. Yes,…
Food Photography Tip – Crumb Strategy for the food photographer 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 little…
101 Advanced Food Photography Tips Okay, maybe it’s not 101 food photography tips quite yet, but I’m working on it! Quite a few years ago, I started writing articles, as Food Photography Tips, trying to share what I’ve learned over all these years photographing food. I’m not really sure why I started doing this, I…
Napkinology – The Art of Napkin Usage in Food Photography I may not be the supreme expert on the art of napkin folding for food photography purposes, but I have been exposed to the subject for quite a few years now, so I thought I’d take the time to share some of the things I’ve…
Food Photography Tips – How to Capture Steam This post is actually one I wrote a long time ago, but the trick still works, so I thought I’d recycle it and see if there is any interest… Michael Ray gives how professional food photographers capture steam in their photos. I was recently on a food…
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…
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 – 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…
