Food Photos & Styling: Creating Fabulous Food Photos with Your Camera or Smartphone

by Eveline Boone

Overview

• Style your dishes and make photos for your social media

• A practical guide for anyone who wants to learn more about food photography with a camera or smartphone

• For everyone who loves cooking and sharing their inspiration

Foodie and food photographer Evelien Boone shows you how to style a dish and make it look tasty, how you can take the most beautiful food photos with your camera or smartphone and the different composition techniques you can apply. With this book she proves that anyone can learn to take mouth-watering photographs as long as you have the right tools at hand.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789401470971
Publisher:	Acc Publishing Group Ltd
Publication date:	05/31/2021
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 8.33(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Eveline Boone of French Beans received her bachelor's degree in photography and specialized in food styling. Her passion for food and drink is reflected both on set and in her daily life. Whether it's testing new restaurants, traveling or collecting beautiful cookbooks.

Table of Contents

Introduction 008

About This Book 9

About Me 10

About Food Photography and Food Styling 12

1 Inspiration 016

Moodboards 18

What is a moodboard? 19

Putting together a mood board 20

2 Photography 026

Technique 28

The Camera 29

Aperture - Shutter Speed - ISO 36

What is a well-exposed photo? 36

Aperture 38

Shutter speed 40

ISO 42

Lenses 42

Composition 54

Perspective 54

Depth 60

Framing 61

The Light 67

White balance - colour temperature 69

Flashlight 74

Continuous light 74

Daylight 76

Manipulating light 78

Contents 88

Learning to look 88

The story 90

3 Analysing Photos 094

Photo Series 94

Making a Selection 98

Editing Your Photos 100

What adjustments do i need to make? 105

Exporting 108

Sense and nonsense of filters and presets 110

Printing Photos 112

Sharing Photos 114

Storing Photos 115

Cheat sheet - The set 116

4 Food Styling 122

What is Food Styling? 123

The Basis of Food Styling 126

Toolkit 127

Preparing dishes 134

Recipes 138

More is better 138

Plating 139

Colour 140

Texture 140

Three is not a crowd 141

A serving or a dish? 142

Overstyling 146

Props 148

Background 148

Exercise - producing your own backgrounds 152

Props 158

Colour 165

Texture 168

Layers 170

Shape 171

Size 172

Where to find it 174

Exercise: treasures in the attic 176

Cheat sheet - The perfect food photo 178

5 Cases 182

By way of conclusion 206

Thank yous 207