The secret of photographing food is the ability of the photographer to show the dishes most appetizing, to choose the right lighting for shooting, texture and cause the desired impression. A photograph of food today has become one of the most specialized and interesting genres of still life.
There is a huge demand for such a photo in various books and magazines, as well as commercial, for example, in advertising. As with photography of jewelry, its purpose is to always be beautiful and catchy: after all, food should look appetizing. Therefore, how well it is possible to do this – the main criterion for success in professional photography of food.
A lot depends not only on the skill of the photographer, but also on his camera. Now the most popular are Nikon, Sony, Samsung, Canon cameras.
In fact, not all dishes on the face of a person are equally appetizing, and here an experienced eye of a specialist in a given complex area of photography will be extremely in demand. I have a food that has its structure and color, as a rule, to photograph it is very easy, but the shapeless, like the vast majority of stewed dishes, is quite difficult, no matter how wonderful they are smell and taste.
In commercial photography, food, all sorts of canned and packed products are one of the most difficult objects, since the work often consists in how to make a “silk pork ear purse”.
Like everything regarding real life, a photograph of food also follows fashion. Fashion usually changes quite slowly, but if you compare a typical culinary book or a magazine article about a year ago with the modern version, then the differences in the presentation of the subject and lighting of objects will be significant.
But the technique has changed a lot over 10 years. Today, almost any person can afford a semi -professional camera. If you go to this site, you can see how much semi -professional cameras cost.
Now people are conservative in choosing what they eat, and a photograph of food today is a tendency to conservative in style. That is, the dishes are served in the photo in the usual and strongly idealized form. But still there is also the concept of originality of photographs.
We will give a small set of food photographs. As you can see, this is an interesting activity, because making a beautiful and pleasant photograph of food is quite difficult, but this is the interest for the photographer.