Saturday, April 18, 2015

5 Best Tips for Stunning Food Photography

Food photography is a still life specialization of commercial photography, aimed at producing attractive photographs of food for a variety of uses including in advertisements, magazines, packaging, menus or cookbooks. Professional food photography is a collaborative effort, usually involving an art director, a photographer, a food stylist, a prop stylist and their assistants. 



Food Photography Tips

In addition to choosing, preparing and composing plated food, food stylists use numerous techniques to make appear the food as attractive as possible.              
                                   

1. Lighting

One of the best places to photograph food is by a window where there is plenty of natural light – perhaps supported with flash bounced off a ceiling or wall to give more balanced lighting that cuts out the shadows. This daylight helps to keep the food looking much more natural. 

2. Props

Pay attention not only to the arrangement of the food itself but to the context that you put it in including the plate or bowl and any table settings around it. 

3. Be Quick

Food doesn’t keep its appetizing look for long time. So as a photographer you’ll need to be well prepared and able to shoot quickly after it’s been cooked before it melts, collapses, wilts or changes color. 

4. Style it

The way food is set out on the plate is as important as the way you photograph it. Pay attention to the balance of food in a shot and leave a way into the shot. One of the best ways to learn is to get some cook books to see how the pros do it. 

5. Steam

Having steam rising off your food can give it a ‘just cooked’ feel which some food Best Photographers like. Of course this can be difficult to achieve naturally.

 Since, food photography aimed to appealing the customers with your photos so it should high  terrific to look as well. So, try to capture awesome food pictures.

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