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Incorporating Trends into Your Food Photography While Staying True to Your Style
In the ever-evolving world of food photography, staying current with trends while maintaining your unique style is essential for captivating audiences and finding clients. As a food photographer,...
How Are Composition Overlays Used in Food Photography?
Composition overlays are used extensively in the world of commercial food photography. If you’ve ever shot a magazine cover, or worked on a product packaging shoot, you’ve likely worked with an overlay provided to you by the client or an art director. If you haven’t, you may be wondering what is a composition overlay? Keep reading to find out…
How Texture Elevates Your Food Photography
By consciously considering texture when composing our food photos, we allow the viewer to experience our photos more directly. Texture can trigger the perception of cutting into a flaky apple pie or licking a creamy, drippy ice cream cone. Keep reading to find out more about this key principle of composition.
Combining Multiple Lights in Food Photography
One of the biggest challenges in learning artificial light for food photography is using multiple lights in a scene. Shooting food with multiple lights is kind of the last frontier of learning flash. Keep reading for the basics you need to know to get started.
How to Get Creative with Your Food Photography Lighting
The best thing about working with artificial light—especially with flash—is how much control it gives you. You can work at any time of day or night and achieve consistent light from frame to frame. You can craft whatever light you want to tell the story of your food. Find out How >>
Essentials for a Home Food Photography Studio
You don’t need a lot of gear—or even expensive gear—to produce great food photography. The reality is your skill in using the equipment you have is what’s important. Keep reading to find out what will hold you back…
How to Do Bright + Airy Food Photography (with Artificial Light)
When it comes to food photography styles, bright and airy shots are universally popular. However, this style can be difficult to pull off with artificial light, especially with scenes that have a lot of white in terms of props and backgrounds. Keep reading to find out more!
Tips for Printing Your Food Photos
With the rise of digital photography so few people see their images in print anymore. This is true even for photographers. There is a huge demand for website and social media imagery, yet there is a...
What Type of Photographer Are You?
In this digital age, there is more than one type of food photographer. If you were a food photographer in the days of film, you shot advertising and editorial assignments and were considered a...
10 Tips for Switching to Capture One Pro
A while back, I wrote this post about switching from Lightroom to Capture One. Making this move is not right for everyone. Your choice of RAW editor can depend on a lot of things, such as your...
Should You Go to Photography School?
One of the questions that I often get asked is should I go to photography school?The answer to this can be complicated and individual for everyone. It depends on several factors such as financial...
Setting Up a Home Food Photography Studio: Props and Backgrounds
This is the first post in a series about setting up a home food photography studio. I'll be talking about gear and lighting for your home studio in upcoming posts.During this time of the Covid-19...
How to Back Up Your Photos When Shooting Tethered
Whether you’re working with clients or shooting for your blog, you need to back up your computer. When it comes to hard drives, it’s not a matter of if they will fail, but when they will fail....