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.