Lighting For Food And Drink Photography
Digital food photography styling by helene dujardin and food styling.
Lighting for food and drink photography. A non negotiable for indoor food photography a light. Preferably you ll have one with 500 watts. Lately i ve been reading up on food photography checking out a bunch of the food porn sites for trends and then putting that knowledge into practice. Hi i m bill robbins and welcome to food and drink photography.
Food drink photography for beginners. You could also give this one a try that s a little more budget friendly. A strobe light is more powerful than most constant lights. Most monoheads come with a modelling lamp built into the strobe head.
This book is highly recommended for anyone planning to get into food photography along with plate to pixel. With well laid out plans lighting setup and detailed explanation it really makes understanding so much easier the complex art of food and drinks photography. For a food blog or editorial style photography you will need a light with at least 300 watts of power. Most of my food photography is lit with only one light source and after a few years of taking a special interest in shooting food and drink i know exactly where i want the light to be and why.
Drink photography is one of the most fun and rewarding kinds of food photography out there. However photographing drinks comes with a few challenges so i ve put together my seven top tips to help make it a little bit easier and get you creating magazine style drink photos in. There are a few tips and tricks to getting somewhat decent photos that will get you featured. In this course we ll discuss techniques for shooting and lighting small scale subjects and staging food to look crisp hot cold or fresh from the oven.
We have the neewer lighting kit. I ll start by exploring two core types of food photographs and the compositional concepts you should have in mind before planning a shoot. The art of preparing food for the camera by delores. Intensely bright non overhead light that is made for a job like this.