I’ve been photographing food and drink for as long as I can remember. It started shortly after college when I helped to run a local food blog, highlighting restaurants in my area. Then I moved on to a beer blog, and now I regularly photograph food and drinks for a
A significant portion of an effective food photography goes into styling. Not all of the stuff that you see in a commercial photos are actual food items. Some of them are props and fake stuff that help make the food more mouth-watering. Others are substitutes for items that melt, dry
In shooting still life from above, I often decide to not show the entire subject, instead focusing on one particular element. In this photograph, there are several drinks shown, but the only one that’s shown fully. By cutting off the other drinks from the frame, you help direct the viewer into
