Styling
My Tips for Stunning Flatlays
Thanks to Instagram, overhead shots of food have become incredibly popular. This graphic style is great for flattening depth and getting more elements into a frame. Smartphones have very wide...
Tips for Shooting Beverages
As a food photographer, you may often get asked to shoot drinks. But photographing beverages requires a bit of a different skill set from photographing food. Some shooters specialize in this, and...
Five Food Photography Tips You Should Know About Improving Your Food Photography
Food photography has a steep learning curve. Not only do you have to learn the artistic elements of composition, you also need to get down the technical side--the science of light and all the...
My Favourite DIY Food Photography Backgrounds
We all know that your choice of food photography backgrounds can have a BIG impact on your photos. Maybe you've purchased expensive professional backgrounds online for this very reason. Whether...
How I Shoot Cocktails
As a food photographer, you will be asked to shoot a fair number of beverages. I avoided drink photography for a long time because it’s one of the toughest types of shoots to pull off, as it usually...
Your Food Styling Workflow
When you first start out as a food photographer, you need to learn to style food out of necessity to build your portfolio, which will in turn help you start getting work. Once you are a pro and...
Why You Need to Style to the Camera
This is a common mistake I see bloggers and new photographers make: you compose the dish that you’re shooting, along with your props and the other elements that make up your scene. You then pick up...
How to Find Your Unique Style
The other day I was talking to my business coach about my unique selling proposition (yes I have a business coach—in fact more than one--and believe that anyone who is serious about growing their...
How to Take Dramatic Food Photos
How to create dark and dramatic food images in what is often referred to as the chiaroscuro style. Over the last several years a trend towards dark, shadowy images has emerged among the various...
Visual Storytelling: What Story Are You Trying to Tell?
In my own photographic journey, I have found that my style keeps evolving. There is a saying that the last picture you take will not be so different from your first. I believe this is true in that...