Proud Photography Blog

When you start taking professional standard food images, as well as choosing the type of dish you want to snap you need to think about composition and backgrounds.  These are crucial components to make your image stand out from the rest.

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So you have decided that you love food and have what it takes to be a food photographer.  You know how to cook, or you know someone who can and you have studied other peoples work to see what kind of food photography sells.  Here are some ideas on how to progress.

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Food, glorious food – apart from eating it, how can we use it in Photography?  When you think about all the cookery books, magazines and websites out there that are about food, not to mention the type of businesses (such as restaurants) that require images of food, it’s no wonder that the genre is extremely popular.

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Professional photographers say that “If you can shoot food, you can shoot anything.” The main cause for this is the insufficient time you have to actually take your shots. From the time food is kept on the table its look starts deteriorating. Steam stops emerging from it, ice cream begins to melt, shiny food stops shining and so on. At times a photographer has time to take only 5 or 6 pictures before the food stops looking its best. Read the rest of this entry »