Food Photography

Some interesting links and resources on food photography and food design. I will update this list regularly, however I would love to hear of any other food photography resources you recommend, or might be using. A great and recent resource I found is Nikas Culinaria – Food Photo 101. A pity I don’t seem to find (make?) the time to take part.

For more food and non-food related photos, you can also find me on Flickr.

I currently shoot with a Canon EOS 350D and the standard lens that came with the camera, 18-55mm. And I have a fairly ok tripod. Saving for all the extras. I just received for my birthday a wonderful 90-300mm lens I am dying to learn how to use. The world looks very different at 90+mm.

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16 Responses

  1. Kate, on October 23rd, 2007 at 4:23 pm Said:

    hii this is one hellva list. I’m familiar with Matt , Thorsten , Still life with , Tastespotting , beatrice , heide s , and david loftus …. all of whom i admire immensely . The rest i will have to chk out. Thanks for the links and taking so much trouble of sharing it with us.

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  2. TP, on October 25th, 2007 at 2:55 pm Said:

    Hi

    I just had to come out of lurking at tastespotting.com and say, ‘thanks!’ for this list. Sweet!

    TP

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  3. Skrockodile (Sabra), on December 20th, 2007 at 6:43 am Said:

    thanks so much for this – this is a great list. there are many on here I know of and like but many new ones I’m discovering. I absolutely love looking at other people’s work – it’s so inspiration and there’s no better way to learn (apart from clicking away!) than to look at what such talented people are doing.

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  4. mike, on February 5th, 2008 at 4:34 pm Said:

    food photography is like fashion. to be recogised you need to be ahead of the game. nearly all food in photographs is made to look good by cheats, i have woked with several photographers who specialised in foood and know the sort of things they did. i am talking of a few years ago now-one used ammonia and hydrochloric acid to get a steam effect (for example). for now it is probably best to make good dishes and photograph them as they are. like your website – keep it up.

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  5. mike, on February 14th, 2008 at 9:22 pm Said:

    Even though it might not be fashionable – your lovely canon camera does stop down quite a way. Try doing a bracket of exposures stopping down a stop at a time until you run out of stops then compare them. Sometimes sharp works too.
    Cheers

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  6. Radu, on February 26th, 2008 at 7:01 pm Said:

    nice list … great resources

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  7. tami, on March 4th, 2008 at 6:31 pm Said:

    thanks so much for including me in this list. while i work with Tony Clark quite often, I will have to check out the rest of this list since there are lots of names I dont know!

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  8. mike, on March 11th, 2008 at 6:02 pm Said:

    When I said it might not be fashionable – I did not mean the camera, I meant to say “sharp” not being the thing to do. If it looks good enough to eat it doesn’t really matter how you take the picture – in the long run.

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  9. Mike, on March 30th, 2008 at 2:08 pm Said:

    I dont know if your readers need any tips on food photography – so this may be gratuitous. I found that, when photographing raw carrots, that it is best to leave their preparation until the last minute as they oxidise when scrapped or scrubbed and look nasty. Better still peel them with a sharp knife. I learnt this the hard way when doing food shots for baby-food labels.

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  10. Mike, on March 30th, 2008 at 2:14 pm Said:

    Another gratuitous tip is… If you want to cut an image out from its background it is better to shoot on a coloured background paper – preferably a colour that isnt in the subject that way you can easily change the colour in photoshop. I know a photographer that does this with glamour models and it worked a treat. This technique is similar to the “chromakey” system used in the movies.

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  11. Joan Vicent Cantó, on March 30th, 2008 at 8:01 pm Said:

    Nice to be in your exhautive list.

    You have a very nice blog.

    I observe you too ;)

    (I was thinking that is nice but sad to be more valorated abroad that in your country. Then, thank you very much.

    Joan Vicent Cantó

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  12. Sid Khullar, on April 22nd, 2008 at 6:57 am Said:

    Have you seen food.sidkhullar.com and gallery.sidkhullar.com? The first is my food blog with photos and the second is all the photos without the blog. :)

    I’d love to be on your list!

    Thanks,

    Sid

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  13. Sid Frisjes, on July 9th, 2008 at 4:50 pm Said:

    Coolinary Greetings,

    I recently started a photoblog aswell (besides the main coolinary blog. Feel free to visit and keep those eyes open for the bananaslicer :-)

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  14. Premio Brillante Webloglive! « Michelangelo’s Place, on August 31st, 2008 at 11:44 pm Said:

    [...] il tributo al blog foto-gastronomico (on) glorious food and wine, dove è possibile trovare (qui) questa splendida lista di link a siti fotografici di professionisti e non, appassionati di food [...]

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  15. mike narciso, on May 17th, 2009 at 4:10 am Said:

    I just found your blog. It’s great! Way too much information. I’ll be here for weeks.
    I’m new to food photography. How can I get on your list? My site, http://www.mikenarciso.com. Have a look and let me know what you think. I’d appreciate any comments, suggestions or jobs! Thanks, Mike.

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  16. Victor Boghossian, on June 13th, 2009 at 7:21 pm Said:

    I am a food & wine photographer working in Southern California & would love to be included in your list. I shoot studio & location & also own a hi-res photo print lab in Hollywood.

    I work with Food Fanatics on regular basis, & also teach lighting for food photography.

    Regards, Victor.
    323-466-4796

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