Ice Cream Food Photography Tricks
The tricks of the trade.
Ice cream food photography tricks. In fact there are food stylists who refuse to work with this cold dessert. Before the ice cream shoot. Namely to only have part of the food appearing sharp and then the rest blurs off gently. Working with ice cream in food styling and food photography can be quite a challenge.
Improving your speed with ice cream images ice cream. If you re not a professional food photographer and want to skip the prep work and go straight to the technique part of this article then you ll want to scroll down to the photographing ice cream section of the article but to be honest for ice cream preparation is half the battle. I never gave food photography much thought before joining the industry. Ice cream often photographed using mashed potatoes was created using lard powdered sugar and food coloring.
Note that the current fashion in food photography 2010 is to use minimum focus. The advice here also applies to any similar frozen treat like sorbets frozen yogurts and gelato. Use simple tricks to improve your ice cream. Out of all the foods to shoot ice cream can be the most difficult.
We all scream because this is fake ice cream. You won t want to miss these things your. In real life tacos are a delicious mess. For some professional shoots ice cream is replaced by mashed.
These food photography tricks prove your life is a lie steamy tampons mashed potatoes and motor oil. Food styling by kim krejca. It scoops perfectly and stays camera ready for hours. There are a couple schools of thought regarding food photography.
Purists only use real food and others of a more um practical bent resort to using imitation food at every opportunity. A food stylist might also fake ice cream by combining canned frosting with confectioners sugar. If your ice cream has a lot of special features such as chocolate chips sprinkles or glistening crystals using macro will ensure that these details are brought out clearly. These photos show the secret tricks of food photography.
I was squatting in my pyjamas photographing an ice cream sundae. Working quickly with these desserts is key and some photographers choose to use substitutes instead.