Food Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots (2nd Edition)
Do you need help making your food look as delicious as it tastes? Are you a “foodie” hungry for more tantalizing photos of your culinary creations? Do you have a food blog that you’d like to take to the next level, with better images and a stronger business strategy? Then this book is for you!
Do you need help making your food look as delicious as it tastes? Are you a “foodie” hungry for more tantalizing photos of your culinary creations? Do you have a food blog that you’d like to take to the next level, with better images and a stronger business strategy? Then this book is for you!
In Food Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, Second Edition, photographer Nicole Young returns to dish up the basics on everything you need to know to make great food images, from getting the right camera equipment to mastering the key photographic principles of aperture, ISO, and shutter speed. She offers tips on styling food using props, fabrics, and tabletops; and she explains how to improve your photos through editing after the shoot.
This new edition features many brand-new images and examples, accompanied by up-to-date discussions on achieving good lighting and composition. In addition Nicole covers developments in the industry that have emerged since the publication of the first edition, such as the entry of mirrorless cameras on the scene, and more. She also provides a brand new post-processing section focusing on Photoshop Lightroom, showing how to improve your photos through sharpening, color enhancement, and other editing techniques.
Beautifully illustrated with large, vibrant photos, this book offers the practical advice and expert shooting tips you need to get the food images you want every time you pick up your camera.
Material Quality of Book no where near the purchase price of $29 Seems to have good information and presents some good ideas. Unfortunately the book itself leaves a very impression. The absolute cheapness of the book construction and printing is worse than a coffee soaked napkin press. The page weight is practically tracing paper with the cover being less than card stock weight. The color saturation of the images are washed out because the page thickness simply cannot hold any ink.My copy arrived with wrinkles throughout the entire book. I…
Beautiful, great tips, and perfect for a minimalist photographer that wants great results. I absolutely loved this book. As an architectural photographer, I needed to transition my skills into food photography. This book was perfect. It emphasizes it’s instruction on the 20% of effort that gets 80% of the results. There’s not too much emphasis on photography basics that are not necessary for most photographers. It helps people that don’t need to spend money on equipment that gives them diminishing returns on the final result in the quality of the photo. There are a lot of good…
Great starter book For a new food photographer this book was excellent. Really informative and easy reading. I love all the tips and example photos. I read the whole thing in about an hour- then I found out it’s the textbook for my Food Photography class next semester! 😀