Guide to Food Photography Gear
The author of the excellent food photography blog Still Life With … has just posted her updated gear list for food photography. Remember it isn’t necessary to have the best gear to take nice photos; but it certainly doesn’t hurt.
Make your food photos palatable
November 11th, 2007
Deb over at Smitten Kitchen wrote an excellent piece on food photography yesterday, complete with heaps of food porn. It’s a good read with helpful suggestions, a list of the gear she uses and and a reasonably comprehensive set of links to other sources for advice on food photography. I think she sums up the requirements for good photos with the following:
… the only thing that will ever make a difference in the consistent quality of your photos is practice. You can’t learn it from a blog post, a book, a manual, it doesn’t come embedded in pricy [sic] prosumer technology — you simply need to take pictures of every single thing that you see.
The same is, of course, true for cooking, writing, programming, etc.
I also recommend checking out the smitten kitchen flickr stream for a constant dose of mouth-watering pictures.