Food Photography

Food photography is all about eating, meals, cooking, kitchen and recipes captured on camera. It is most certainly true that food photography belongs to the difficult types of photography because, not only we have to deal with light and lighting, but also with texture and arranging food for the viewer. 

Having said that, this page of my site is all about food photography. You will see not only the finished dish but also the way how fresh produce, meat, ingredients and all the trimmings of a good meal are processed. All that is captured on camera to be published here.

Essential equipment for food photography

Food photography essentially aims at watering the observers mouth by producing good shots of meals and ingredients. So what do we essentially need to get the job done? Basically one needs, of course, the ingredients, a good recipe and a functional kitchen. Yes, a good cook is the basis for success. After that we swiftly talk about camera equipment. What sort of technique do we need?

• DSLR or mirrorless camera
• tripod
• tripod head
• cable release
• wide angle lense - EF 24-70mm f2.8
• midrange lense - EF 50mm f1.2, EF 85mm f1.2
• Diffusion panel
• black foam boards
• white foam boards
• Strobe
• Softbox
• lightning stands

Should we shoot raw or in jpeg? If one wants to get more out of the image than always go for raw.

Vegetable Photography

Day in day out there is a lot of food we consume whithout even thinking about it, let alone knowing where it all come from. In times where ready-made meals are all too much in common, or the quick snack bought at the super market it does make sense to look more carefully at what we consume and, even better, considering how to prepare healthy food onself.

In this section I show vegetable prepared for the camera. Hoping you will get some appetite.

Bread Photography

We come across bread in various forms and styles. Bread is the major human diet. We know bread in many forms and styles. Bread comes across as the sandwich that stills the immediate hunger and down to the loaf of bread that someone puts on the table or the cutting board. Find some inspiration on bread photography in the following images.

Plum sponge

Preparation time

• preparation time appr. 20 minutes
• cooking time appr. 60 minutes
• ready in 1 hour 30 minutes

Method

1. Cleanse the 750 g of plum, the cut the plum and remove the stone
2. Cream the butter with a hand mixer in a bowel
3. Then add the sugar and two eggs after beating them to the butter and cream it all together with the hand mixer
4. Add the mixture of flour and baking powder to the creamed dough
5. Spoon the mixture into the buttered baking tin.
6. Apply the halved and stoned plum on top of the sponged mixture. Leave some space between the fruit to allow for the sponge to rise.
7. Bake in the middle of a preheated 175 C oven for about 60 minutes until the sponge is cooked. The fruit should just be releasing its juices.
8. After about 60 minutes open the oven and let the cake cool off a bit for some minutes, then remove the baking tin and place it on the grate to cool down.

Instead of buttering the baking tin baking paper can be used.