Food photography tips for bloggers


 Food PR and food photography have recently gained popularity. 

 Here are some tips for getting started.

  1. Take photos under natural light. Do not use overhead lights or lamps or your built-in flash. ...
  2. Move around to find the best light source. Don't feel confined to taking photos in your kitchen. ...
  3. Try taking photos from multiple angles. ...
  4. Minimize clutter

  5. Shoot a Food Story Your Viewers Can Relate To

  6. How to Get Your Images On FoodGawker or Tastespotting  

    You don’t have to have the best food photography style in the world to have a successful food blog. But you sure do need to expose your subjects correctly.
    This is especially true if you are trying to get your images onto sharing sites like FoodGawker and Tastespotting. Most food bloggers will try to do this 

  7. Why You Should Invest in a Good Quality Lens, Not Camera

    Most people new to food photography think that in order to take the best images, we need to have the best camera.

  8. Use Recipe Testing to Help Your Food Style

  9. Crumbs and Garnishes Can Strengthen Your Composition

    Cooking is messy! A scattering of crumbs helps us get a sense of preparing the food.

  10. The ones that start your stomach growling and your mouth salivating. The ones that make you want to lick your computer screen. The ones that have you running for the kitchen, fingers crossed that you have everything on hand to make whatever was in that photo.

    You don’t have to be a professional photographer to take a mouthwatering photograph (I’m not!), but it does take a little practice. I’ve made a list of the 10 food photography tips that really helped me improve my food photography the most..

  11. Find a photo online that you absolutely love and try to re-create it. Cook the meal, set the stage and go to work. Paying close attention to the details in other's photography will also help your own. Pay attention to the food styling, the lighting, the angle the photo was taken at and the depth of field. It's much harder than you think! Check out the bottom of the page for a few examples of my attempts.

  12. Buy (or borrow, or rent, or salvage) a copy of the book From Plate to Pixel by Helene Dujardin, and study it.

  13. Take photos from different angles, and take a lot of them. Move around the food, take pictures from up above and down below, up close and further away. Change the set up. Play with your camera’s settings. You can always delete the photos that don’t turn out, so take lots.

  14. If you are submitting to sites like Foodgawker and Tastespotting, you will need to crop your photos into a square. Keep this in mind while you are shooting. At the bottom of the page I’ve shared a few examples of shots I’ve taken specifically for these sites

  15. Always be on the lookout for new (at least to you) props. Some of the more interesting props that I have found are a newspaper, old postcards, and interestingly shaped dishes.

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