Food Photography

Food photography is a discipline where styling is as important as light — and where the difference between an appetizing image and a flat one often comes down to small details most viewers never consciously notice. This section covers the craft of food photography from both creative and commercial angles: how to style and light food, work with art directors, build a prop kit, and develop the eye for texture and color that makes food images genuinely enticing.

[Production Trick] How To Create Smoke For Photography Out Of Liquid

Every photographer needs a few things in their bag of tricks. An easy trick is to add some smoke to your images for effect. You can always create photo smoke on a budget if you want to MacGyver it but there is another solution - two solutions in fact.

Breakfast Interrupted: Smashing Food In Super Slow Mo

Bruton Stroube Studios sets up a beautiful breakfast only to throw it into the air and film it in super slow motion. It's obvious that a lot of planning went into such a simple concept but it was worth all of the effort. Check out the BTS first and then the finished product below that.

Fashion Photographer Sets His Eye On Food

If you have ever wanted to frustrate yourself as a photographer, try shooting food and actually make it look appetizing. Edward Gowans, a photographer based out of Portland Oregon, has made a living shooting food for almost 20 years. Edward learned there was a big market in the northwest looking for stylized culinary images.

Kim Krejca Explains The Importance Of Food Styling

Kim Krejca is a professional food and prop stylist. Combining her background in art direction and culinary arts, Kim now works with photographers to create the perfect images you see on menus and in maganzines. Most of what you see in terms of food photography is cleverly engineered and often times flat out fake.

Fstoppers Original: Lee Morris Shoots Oak Steakhouse

When we launched Fstoppers back in February, we were working hard to create our own original video content to help kick off our website. After shooting this video, it got buried in my computer before I had time to edit it because we were also working to complete multiple other videos at the same time. I finally had enough free time to finish up this quick food shoot.

Don't Cut The Cheese, Pull It

Want to know what goes into creating a few seconds of a Domino's Pizza commercial? How often do you screw your pizza into the table? By the way, I think their hand model may be a serial killer when she isn't pulling cheese.

Corey Lack Treats Us To Some Mexican Food

We have been getting a lot of requests for videos that feature behind the scenes footage of specialized fields of photography. One of those fields is food photography which is probably because so many of you are reading our blog before lunch at work or in the late hours of the night when all that is left is that dreaded "4th meal".