I hope you enjoy the photos on my site. Food photography is a 2nd passion of mine, along with cooking food, eating food, and writing about food (pretty much every part of this blog). I don’t claim to be a professional, but I do strive to take great photos, and absorb as much information as I can to learn techniques and better my photography skills. I am FASCINATED by photography and specifically, photographing food. I’d like to think that as I’ve progressed in my blogging that my picture taking skills have improved immensely (just check out some of my earlier posts like this one to see what I mean), and most of that is due to some awesome tutorials and sites that I have come across along the way, since I have never had any formal instruction. I also have a photography blog if you are curious in my photographing adventures as I try to develop my skills, though it is mostly nature/scenery rather than food. But many principles are the same, except that one doesn’t have as much control over things like lighting.
However, sometimes one happens to be in exactly the right place at the right time, realizes they actually have their camera with them, and manages to capture a sight like this:
But this page is about photographing food, not old rustic barns glistening in the last dying rays of sunlight before a coming storm. Below is a list of the resources that have been the most help to me, and may be useful to those of you who are also in love with taking pictures of food, and want to get better:
Food Photography Tips and Tutorials
These sites offer great tips and tutorials on food photography:
101 Cookbooks has a few tips
Chocolate and Zucchini’s tips
Constable’s Larder has a number of tips
Crumbly Cookie’s food photography page
David Lebovitz posts about the equipment he uses
Mattbites has some notes as well
Matt Wright’s post about food photography
Nikas Culinara has a number of tutorials in Food Photo 101
Smitten Kitchen’s post on approach to food photos
Vegan Yum Yum’s food photography post
What’s Cooking’s photography tag has lots of useful tips
White on Rice Couple has a series of posts dedicated towards great photography concepts and tips
Food Photography Blogs
Culinary Snapshot – users submit before and after photos and talk about what they did to make a great photo
Digital Photography School – this site has useful info about all types of photography, not just food.
Donna Ruhlman – great “behind the scenes” descriptions of all things food photography
Food Bloggers Unite – Lots of great photography and blogging tips
Food Photography Portfolio – lots of cool posts about rather specific topics in food photography
Learn Food Photography – A blog dedicated to looking at food photography and styling
Still Life With – food styling and food photography, both of which are equally important I am learning
Inspiration - What better way to learn how to create a shot than to model them after the pros?
Foodgawker
Foodphotoblog
Photograzing
Refrigerator Soup
Tastespotting
And of course, if you want to learn why some photos don’t get accepted by these illustrious food photography sites, check out Tastestopping, the place for all the rejects! It’s definitely educational though to see why certain photos were rejected. I’ve even submitted a few myself!
Well those are just a few links, hope this is useful for those of you like me always looking to learn more about taking pictures of their food!
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