How to Take Pictures of Food

Video Transcript

"My name is Anthony Maddaloni and I'm going to talk about how to shoot food. Now one important part of food photography is that you're really, you're a photographer, in a sense you are a stylist. That means that you are setting up food in a way to make it look amazing. Now one of the first times I saw food photography, I was stunned by how much not food they were using to make the food look good. You might use certain glosses and certain ways that you never eat that food after it, to make the food look good. There's also certain lighting techniques that you need to use. And a certain amount of patience. Food photography is almost like, I can compare it to actually collage. Where as you are setting up items to make them look extremely visually pleasing. So if you're the type of person that can really look at something and, it's almost a sense of color as well, and put these things together you'll probably be an excellent person to get into food photography. And that is basically how you would start to become a food photographer."