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Tasty Food Photography & Design (Vol.2)

22. Tasty Table Food Photo Calendar

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Food Photography : Techniques

You have chosen your location, considered the lighting, set up your camera on your tripod (don't try this in hand-held mode), arranged your fresh food on a pretty plate, and garnished it. Everything is ready except you don't know how to translate all that prettiness into a professional-looking photograph. There are really only two things you have to consider: get close and work fast.

Get close: If possible, fill the entire frame of the image with your subject. I took most of the shots in this article with a 75-300mm lens at f-stops of 4 or 5.6. The resulting shallow depth-of-field will throw everything but a few inches of your plate out of focus, blurring the background and highlighting the texture of your food item. So position your camera and tripod on a low angle to your plate, zoom in (using the depth-of-field preview button on the 10D helps too), set your exposure in manual mode at something like f 5.6 and 1/8 second (ISO 200), and fire away.

Work fast: As previously mentioned, food only looks really appealing for a short period of time. Ice cream melts--especially in a sweltering kitchen setting. Champagne goes flat. Veggies droop. And lettuce wilts. So you need to work fast. Even with the best-case scenario, you won't have more than 15 to 20 minutes from the moment the food exits the pan or fridge to get your shot. Being well prepared really helps, and having a helper or the chef there to plate and dress is invaluable. But don't be afraid to experiment with different angles, settings, and garnishes nonetheless. Remember: practice makes perfect.