A great food photo can do many things! A great food photograph can do a lot!
Knowing how to photograph food in order to achieve great results is essential for amateur and professional food photographers. If you want to get the same results as those in glossy magazines or books, you’ll need to know a few tips and tricks for food photography.
Prepare Food For Look, Not Taste – A Short Guide To Food Styling
There are whole books and careers dedicated to how to style food (not for photography but for STYLING it for a camera). Food industry is huge, and they know the importance of good photography to sell their products.
If you want to get great photos (and not just eat the food afterwards), you should prepare your food so that it looks its best.
How do you do it?
Note You don’t need an expensive camera like a DSLR or mirrorless camera. You can use any camera that has an inexpensive lens.
Are You Shooting Full-Bodied Food?
Food looks better in photographs when it has a full body , as opposed to being “big”. When you remove something from the oven, the body usually shrinks a little in the air. There are a few photography tricks that can help you with this problem, but simple ones work best.
