Table of Contents
Introduction: Food Styling as a Career
Today, food styling is a relatively small niche market compared to other jobs in the food industry. But it’s a growing market with strong international appeal.
1 The Lowdown on Food Styling
What a successful food stylist does is help produce a photo that sells a dream, brand, product, sandwich, plate, lifestyle, chef, or restaurant.
2 Starting a Food Styling Business
As creative as food styling can be, it is foremost, a business, taking years to establish a substanial client bases. To accomplish this you need to have a plan and implement it.
3 Building a Styling Kit
Food stylists build their own kits according to their specific work requirements, their personality, and the tools they are most comfortable with.
4 Marketing Your Food Styling Business
In marketing your food styling business, you are marketing yourself. What experiences make you different from other food stylists in your area? What is unique about your background? You’ll find that marketing your business becomes second nature.
5 Money Talk
Always search for new markets for your services. Marketing doesn’t always have to be expensive or difficult.
6 Preparing for Magic Time
The actual job of styling any plate of food is the end result of a lot of preparation. Magic time is a term used when the HD video camera starts rolling or the photographer begins shooting.
7 Tricks of the Trade
Now you are ready to do some actual food styling! We alter techniques to suit the particular job at hand and whatever we have available at that moment. Like an artist, only using food products.
