Travel Photography Subjects: Food Preparation

Going hand in hand with the previous Travel Photography Subject: Food, is what goes on behind the scenes. Some will consider food and food preparation one and the same and photograph them as such. But I have often found the ceremony, skill, art and heart that goes into creating the meal deserves its own category.

While food photography on the road may be fairly easy (it’s placed right in front of your or you grab it from a cart, after ..read more

7 Tips for Aspiring Food Pornographers

A Guest Post by Heather from eatwell.eatgreen.

Good food photography induces a physical response. A really great food photo makes you hungry, makes you salivate, makes you want some for yourself.

All in all, it’s no surprise that the big food photography sites on the web like Tastespotting and Foodgawker are known as the food porn sites. Whether you are a recipe blogger, trying to write your family cookbook, or just stuck at home on a wet afternoon, there are a few ..read more

FOOD: Weekly Photography Challenge

Your challenge this week is to take a photograph (and share it) on the theme of Food. It should be something we can all do on some level as we all do eat so most days there should be some opportunity to capture that activity!

If you’re looking for some inspiration check out some of our archives on how to do food photography:

Food Photography – an Introduction Getting Started in Food Photography 10 Tips for Mouth Watering Food Photography A Basic Food Photography Kit

Once ..read more

10 Tips for Mouth Watering Food Photography

A Guest Post by Dario Milano of Food Pixels

Food is in front of us every day – 24/7. On our plates, in magazines, on TV and even on computer screens.

If we are not eating it we are talking about what we just ate or about what we are going to eat! We are what we eat; our diet reflects our lifestyle, our choices and our beliefs.

I am a food photographer and I love my job; but I haven’t always been ..read more

Food Photography Techniques and Tips

Today food photographer Jonathan Pollack shares some wonderful food photography tips (and some positively mouth watering photos. Also check out our previous Food Photography Tips..

The food photography techniques in this post are ones that I use in photos I take for both a local food magazine and my wife’s cupcake blog. I’ve broken these techniques down into a few areas that give some ideas and suggestions to help you photograph and showcase your food.

Styling Your Food for Photography

I’ve never had ..read more

13 Hot Photography Tutorials

Last month here at dPS. We had another record month in terms of traffic but more importantly – we saw some great tutorials and tips shared from our writing team. In case you missed what we published in March – here are the top 10 articles to help you catch up.

From: Warning: 10 Deadly Post Processing Sins

Warning: 10 Deadly Post Processing Sins 31 Stunning Black and White Subject Study Photos Portraiture in Motion: How to take Striking Portraits in 15 minutes or ..read more

This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (21-27 Feb ‘10)

Weekly Assignment

We finished another food photography assignment this week, and the subject was Main Dishes. We wanted you to show us how tasty the food that your meal is based around is. Our winners seemed to have a bit of a seafood theme going this week, but there were some great shots of other mains too. Our winner was phillj for the shot of Prawns. The lighting and colour really made this shot stand out to us. This shot was ..read more

Our 13 Most Popular Photography Tips of All Time

Yesterday I was doing a little analysis of the statistics behind dPS as I did a little planning for the coming months on the site and as I looked at them I realised that some of what I was seeing would probably be interesting for you our readership.

I’ll share a few of the stats below – but I thought that of particular interest to newer readers of dPS would be our a list of our most read tutorials and tips. ..read more

This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (14-20 Feb ‘10)

Weekly Assignment

We continued our month of food photography this month with our Fruits and Vegetables Assignment. The goal was to progress on what you learned in the Desserts Assignment and apply it to fruits and vegetables to make them look just as appetizing. Well, you guys really did well. This week’s winner was gomommygo’s Fresh Tomato. We liked how fresh it looked, but also it was well lit, had nice colours, and the water droplets really added a nice texture ..read more

This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (7-13 Feb ‘10)

Weekly Assignment

February marked the start of our month of food photography, and our first assignment was Desserts. We saw all different manners of sweet treats this week. There was some classic food photography, there was some creative food photography, there was funny food photography, and there was a lot in-between. Our winner this week was a prime example of classic food photography. thebubblybeginner’s bright yellow Cupcakes stood out with their bright colours and shallow depth of field that is common ..read more

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