Food photography tips for bloggers
Food PR and food photography have recently gained popularity.
A few of my blogging buddies were having a discussion about how far we’ve come as photographers since we started blogging. We have had a good time laughing at ourselves, looking back into the archives to see how far we’ve come. We have also made some pretty amazing images over the years. I even started a pinterest board so that we can all pin some of our more proudly photography's moment.
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USE NATURAL LIGHT:-
The easiest way to improve your photographs is to use natural light. All of my photos, with the exception of a small few, were taken with daylight diffused through a thin white piece of cloth. This includes all but one shot in my Cookbooks.
'Over the years while I was a food stylist, more often than not the photographer used strobe photography. I have never learned how to use them myself, or invested in the equipment to do so. Frankly, I just don’t have that much space to set it all up since I am shoot in my home office. Honestly, this has been an issue when I have done full day shoots, and the light needs to be consistent, but for the most part, food blogging can be done without artificial lights. Please leave me a comment below if you are currently using strobe for your food blog.
USE MANUAL FOCUS:-
Taking your camera out of “idiot mode” also means manually focusing on your subject. Depending on your camera, this may be a setting on your lens. Or it could be on the camera body. The reason you would want to do this is that the camera automatically wants to focus on the center of the viewfinder, unless you tell it otherwise. And often the main subject isn’t in the center of the photograph for composition reasons. Therefore it is better to take matters into your own hands and focus the camera on what you think is the most important part of the frame.



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