Food Photography Styling 101
Food Photography Styling 101 Food photography is a popular genre of photography - just look at most of your friend’s Instagram feeds! But in order to provide quality food photography images to clients, there are several food photography techniques that will help us capture the best images, including how to style photos of food. In addition to food photography styling tips, this tutorial will highlight some best practices and techniques that you can use to create the best images of food. You may also want to check out our primer Getting Started in Food Photography: Beginner’s Gear Guide for an idea of where to start with equipment. Small Product Techniques As a first step in food photography styling, let’s get out of the mindset of simply displaying meals as a social media post. Good food photography styling has more in common with small product photography than with documenting dinner. Starting out in food photography, it’s helpful to look at the food as a small product, usi...