More food styling for photographers and stylists a guide to creating your own appetizing art
Thanks to the exploding popularity of food-based television shows (entire networks, even), websites, books, and magazines, food stylists and food photographers are in more demand today than ever before. While there are many amazing opportunities for creative professionals to showcase their work in a...
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Waltham, MA
Focal Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Building your portfolio
- Beer and cocktails
- Styling packaged foods
- Soups
- Tacos
- Hot dogs
- What's for breakfast?
- Styling montage shots
- Styling a first course for the camera
- Tricks of the trade
- Shooting food on location
- Chapter 1: Building Your Portfolio suggestions for stylists and photographers who want to begin their portfolio or beef up an already existing portfolio. Chapter 2: Beer and Cocktails Chapter 3: Working with Packaged Foods: Pizza and Peas Tips and techniques for turning an off-the-shelf pizza into photo-worthy works of art featuring whole pizza styling and a "cheese pull" pizza slice; working with "Serving Suggestion" styling frozen veggies. Chapter 4: Soups Chapter 5: Tacos Chapter 6: Hot Dogs Chapter 7: What's for Breakfast? Working with Pancakes, Cereal, and Smoothies Chapter 8: Montage Shots: Working with a Client's Product Line features building an "Entertaining" montage image for our grocery sponsor, Central Market Chapter 9: Styling a First Course Dish: Playing with Focus, Camera Angle, Set Composition, and Crop Presented with a series of shots showing progress of styling a hero first course dish. The project will undergo focus, angle, and set composition changes to emphasize the importance of these elements in hero shots. Chapter 10: A Few Tricks of the Trade: Smoke, Drips, and Pours. Chapter 11: Shooting Food on Location: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Appendix: by Brad G Rogers; will include information about working shots on the computer, how and why food shots are handled differently than other types of shots