More Food Styling for Photographers & Stylists: A guide to creating your own appetizing art

by Linda Bellingham, Jean Ann Bybee

Overview

Thanks to the exploding popularity of food-based television shows (entire networks, even), websites, books, and magazines, food stylists and food photographers are in more demand today than ever before. While there are many amazing opportunities for creative professionals to showcase their work in ads, cookbooks, blogs, and food packaging, there is also more competition for these jobs. Whether you are a food stylist who works alongside photographers or a food photographer yourself, you'll find everything you need to know to give your portfolio that little extra push in this expert guide by three professionals with decades of experience in each field. More Food Styling for Photographers covers topics that Linda, Jean Ann, and Brad's fans have been asking for, such as shooting food on location, working with packaged foods, building the perfect breakfast shot, and more. Clients and foodies eat with their eyes first, so don't be afraid to play with your food - make sure it's YOUR image that whets their appetite!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138381230
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/18/2018
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Food stylist Linda Bellingham's flair for all things artistic and her passion for the culinary arts help her transform food for photography in clever and tantalizing ways. Linda has an extensive list of clients and her work has been featured in print and television advertising as well as food packaging. Linda resides in Oregon where she styles for select clients, conducts seminars on food styling, and is working on another book. She can be found at her website www.foodstyling.us.
Photographer Jean Ann Bybee has been creating gorgeous images for more than 20 years. As a Dallas-based commercial photographer she has shot all over the world, everything from fashion for Neiman Marcus to Mexican wrestlers for Miller Lite, making every image a masterpiece in it's own way. In this book, she shows us why her approach of shooting an inanimate object like its a "beautiful woman" is wonderful when the subject is food. Her expertise in mixing natural light and strobe is amazing. She can be reached at www.bybeephoto.com.
Art Director, producer, stylist, digital technician and yes, small animal veterinarian, Brad G. Rogers has been wearing different hats for the past twenty years. He has designed numerous covers for national catalogs and art directed/styled projects that included products as varied as baseball uniforms, fruitcakes to fine jewelry. Brad has had the pleasure of working with both Linda and Jean Ann on several campaigns. He can be reached through www.bybeephoto.com.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Building Your Portfolio suggestions for stylists and photographers who want to begin their portfolio or beef up an already existing portfolio.
• Chapter 2: Beer and Cocktails
• Chapter 3: Working with Packaged Foods: Pizza and Peas Tips and techniques for turning an off-the-shelf pizza into photo-worthy works of art featuring whole pizza styling and a "cheese pull" pizza slice; working with "Serving Suggestion" styling frozen veggies.
• Chapter 4: Soups
• Chapter 5: Tacos
• Chapter 6: Hot Dogs
• Chapter 7: What's for Breakfast? Working with Pancakes, Cereal, and Smoothies
• Chapter 8: Montage Shots: Working with a Client's Product Line features building an "Entertaining" montage image for our grocery sponsor, Central Market
• Chapter 9: Styling a First Course Dish: Playing with Focus, Camera Angle, Set Composition, and Crop Presented with a series of shots showing progress of styling a hero first course dish. The project will undergo focus, angle, and set composition changes to emphasize the importance of these elements in hero shots.
• Chapter 10: A Few Tricks of the Trade: Smoke, Drips, and Pours.
• Chapter 11: Shooting Food on Location: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• Appendix: by Brad G Rogers; will include information about working shots on the computer, how and why food shots are handled differently than other types of shots.