10 Tips to Improve Your Food Photography
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10 Tips to Improve your Food Photography - a presentation I gave at TBEX North America in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Thursday, October 29, 2015. Julie Deily of TheLittleKitchen.net & JulieDeily.com
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10 Tips to Improve Your Food Photography
- 1. juliedeily.com@TheLittleKitchn 10 Tips to Improve your Food Photography TBEX NA Fort Lauderdale, Florida Thursday, October 29, 2015 Julie Deily // TheLittleKitchen.net
- 2. juliedeily.com@TheLittleKitchn In Memory of Joan Hayes chocolatechocolateandmore.com #chocolateforJoan
- 3. juliedeily.com@TheLittleKitchn Quick Intro • Started my food blog called The Little Kitchen in Dec. 2009 • Have spoken at BlogHer Food and other conferences; organized several food blog conferences & the great food blogger cookie swap • Food photography has appeared in print, recognized as a foodie instagrammer to follow by Orlando Weekly and one of 30 bloggers to follow in 2015 by Southern Living
- 4. juliedeily.com@TheLittleKitchn 1. Practice Practice Practice I know…so annoying
- 7. juliedeily.com@TheLittleKitchn 2. Lighting • Natural light (again so annoying) • Get a table near a window • Lunch! • Pay attention to lighting when being seated
- 8. juliedeily.com@TheLittleKitchn 3. Shoot Different Things • Shoot the menu at the restaurant • Capture the ambience of the restaurant • Take a photo of the restaurant sign
- 10. juliedeily.com@TheLittleKitchn 4. Use the tools you have • Use other people’s hands • Use napkins to reflect • Use strobe or flashlight from someone else’s phone • Stand up, stand on chairs
- 13. juliedeily.com@TheLittleKitchn 5. Focus • Make sure the food is recognizable • Don’t need to be so close to the subject
- 15. juliedeily.com@TheLittleKitchn 6. It’s all about the details • Move things around, wipe the plate • But don’t move around so much that it’s not the same plate you were served • Move your glasses, get rid of clutter • Pay attention to what’s around the dish or on the table
- 20. juliedeily.com@TheLittleKitchn 8. Use Apps • For the desktop, I love Adobe LightRoom • Apps for the phone (all allow you to copy & paste edits and apply to other photos) Snapseed - great editing tool, transform feature VSCO - filters PicTapGo - filters, allow you to combine
- 23. juliedeily.com@TheLittleKitchn 9. Dos & Don’ts • Don’t use unnatural angles (overhead or 45 degree angles) • Please don’t use flash on people or food
- 25. juliedeily.com@TheLittleKitchn 10. Consider equipment • smartphones • dSLR • lightweight mirrorless cameras (the one I love is a Panasonic Lumix — reviewed here.)