Professional Food Photography Technique – Episode #1 A long time ago I made a few tutorial videos about various aspects of food photography and then for some reason, I stopped. If you want to check them out, you can visit my Youtube channel see what you think. The other day, I made another video. What…
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…
Menu Photography Shoot I think the key to good commercial food photography is the ability for the food photographer to make the food look as appetizing as possible. That sounds like a “given”, but most food photographers concentrate more on making a “pretty picture”, than on making the food look as good as possible. The…
Food Photography of Chocolate Chip Cookies and Scones Just completed another successful food photography shoot with a great client and an awesome crew. The shot at the top of the page is one that offered an interesting photographic challenge. My favorite food photography light is one that casts a very crisp shadow, and when shooting…
The Keys To Great Pizza Photography If you dabble as food photographer, sooner or later, someone is going to ask you to photograph pizza. I’ve probably have shot pizza for over ten different clients over the years and from that experience, I’ve developed an understanding of what it takes to make a great pizza photo….
Image From a Food Photography Workshop Last week I gave a three day, one on one, food photography workshop to a wonderful young woman from Mumbai. Yes, Mumbai India.That’s a long way to travel to learn new techniques, but she said it was worth it. We covered a ton of topics, but mostly Food Photography…
Food Photography in RGB vs SRGB I’m not sure if you’re aware of this or not, but the food photos (all photos actually) look better on the web when saved in the SRGB color space. This is all a bit technical for me to explain, and you need to go somewhere else to really understand…
Nine things that make a food photo look natural I’ve studied food photography for a long time now and I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out just what it was that made a food photo look natural or look fake. It seems like I can tell a mile away which photos were…
Sexy Food Photography Lighting Technique There’s something pretty sexy about the lighting of the chocolate on top of that brownie. It’s kind of hard to put your finger on, but there isn’t much denying it. Can you figure it out? It’s the fact that the highlight doesn’t have a hard edge. It just sort of…
