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Want to learn how to style great food photos? Here's what you need to know. [Photographs: Vicky Wasik]. We talked about everything from creating optimal lighting and composition to choosing the right props, equipment, and camera settings for your needs. With a little practice, these tips can take you from a discolored, distorted smartphone photo to something like this:
So what does that process actually look like? You asked us for tips to improve your own food photography, so we sat down with professional food stylist, whose clients include Martha Stewart, Bon Appétit, and the Food Network, to find out. To take us through his philosophy, Schreiber made us a simple puff pastry plum galette and showed us how to style it one step at a time. Here are his top suggestions for home cooks looking to step up their game. .
And once you have those ingredients in-hand, think about how you'll be prepping them. When it comes to photos, Schreiber notes, flavor can come at the expense appearance: for instance, he looked for slightly unripened plums for our photoshoot, since they're better able to retain their shape after baking.
We love a little mess in a food photo. It communicates movement, dynamism, and the unbridled pleasure of eating. But there's a difference between mess we want to eat—like a melting scoop of ice cream or a stray crumb—and a big ol' grease stain that reminds you of the clean-up you'll need to do later. If you're going to embrace the mess, just be sure that it makes you hungry.The job of a food stylist isn't just to make the food look delicious, it's to bring it to life.
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