When it comes to food photography, I think food bloggers have heaps more challenges than the food stylists that set up the shots for magazines, cookbooks and the like. For one, the pictures you see here (and most other food blogs/web sites) are of edible food. It goes from that plate to our mouths. The ones you see in print ads, commercial, magazines et al largely are not. They rely on many tricks of the trade to make the food look mouth watering, but also rendering it inedible. They also don’t have a hungry family or dinner guests waiting for you to “just get one more shot” before they can dig in. It’s a completely different perspective and process for food bloggers, for sure, but we all develop our own method of doing it along the way.
Today my tip for you is to change your angles and your set-up to make sure you get your m-o-n-e-y shot.
Stand on a chair and take an overhead shot.
Take your picture from the left and then the right, giving your plate different lighting each time.
Turn the plate around and take pictures along the circumference.
Change the background.
And the lighting.
And, of course, do this all before your family gets mad that their dinner is getting cold….