Food Photography Tips

Food Photography Tips from Pixar's Sharon Calahan,

Director of Photography on the movie Ratatouille

I found this article written by Sam Breach and I thought it could be of great help to those learning new techniques on how to improve their work.

These top three tips provided by Sharon Calahan, the director of photography on the movie Ratatouille, are very helpful for people who want to create mouth-watering food pictures:

Ask yourself what the photo is about, be specific, and eliminate distractions that compete with your goal.
Use depth of field as one of the tools to help you.
Modulate the light in some way or use the surface characteristics to modulate the light response.

Sharon bottom line is: Find one aspect about the food that you want to showcase and eliminate distractions.

Create a focal point, use size and position. Play with contrasts/similarities in shapes and colors and surfaces. Create accents and interesting negative spaces.

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