{"id":6813,"date":"2013-05-23T23:03:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T21:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/?p=6813"},"modified":"2020-10-21T08:43:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T06:43:13","slug":"photographing-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/expat-life\/photographing-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing food – a few tips learned at Food Photo Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently participated in a one-day food photography workshop with FoodPhotoLab<\/a>, a Florence-based organization in partnership with Belluno-based photographer Alberto Bogo, whose photos have been published by Cond\u00e9 Nast and a number of prestigious magazines. While the class was aimed at food bloggers, I knew it would be useful to pick up a few tricks that I could use while photographing any still lives, portraits, food at restaurants, products for MakeTank<\/a>, and whatever else. I learned a number of tricks that, if anything, have made me now able to recognize how a lot of the shots that I see in food blogs are done, and with a 100 euro investment in lighting, I should be able to replicate some of them.<\/p>\n

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In a day-long, 8 hour workshop (plus lunch break), I got four good photographs. We experimented with simple backlit still lives of small pastries, using natural light, before moving on to some vegetables, and finishing with studio lighting and more complex arrangements after a brief on props and set creation. I found that my style is unsurprisingly minimal and I tend to like deconstructed recipes laid out and shot from above. I did attempt to do this – here is the result.<\/p>\n

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If I had to break down what I learned in this one day course it would be this:<\/p>\n