For a food blog, having a perfect recipe is paramount, but getting people to actually look at that recipe may very well hinge on having the perfect picture to go along with it.  This is not necessarily as easy as it sounds.  You would think that snapping a picture of whatever is on the table would be simple, but that is very rarely ever the case.

Snapping a great food photo isn’t easy.  Food is dynamic, it has subtle textures and color hues.  Too much light and it’s completely washed out.  Too little and it all just looks like roadkill, regardless of how perfectly it was presented. I’ll lay bets that for every perfectly gorgeous piece of food porn you see on most food blogs that there is a slushpile of photos that didn’t make the cut.

Some of those will be slightly out of focus. Others will have been too harshly lit or under-lit.  some will have been over or under exposed.  It’s very rare that the first shot we take is the shot that you’ll be looking at when you are drooling over some gorgeous piece of edible art on your favorite blog. As a matter of fact, sometimes what you’re looking at, at lest in the case of this blog, is no longer even edible.

There are tricks to food photography. They include everything from adding frozen veggies to the top of a cold soup so that everything in the shot looks completely fresh, to grabbing leftovers off the counter because those noodles will help to pad what you thought you had left.  Just leave them underneath the edible stuff and nobody will ever see them.  It’s all about looks in photography.

In the nearly two years I’ve been taking photos of food for this blog, I’ve learned a lot. I figure it’s time I go through some of my best pictures and show you how I did it.  If you’re interested, that is.

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