Food photography

Cookbooks You Should Buy Just for the Photos

June 1, 2011

I recently recommended Helene Dujardin’s book Plate to Pixel. Not only is it extremely informative, it’s full of gorgeous photos — photos that make you feel like stopping what you’re doing and sitting down to eat. Not in an “I’m starving. What’s for dinner?” kind of way. But in a “It’s summer holidays and I’ve [...]

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C Food – Food Photography taken to the next level

January 5, 2010

A while ago I wrote about some tricks food photographers use to make the final dish more appealing. As you can tell from some of my less than stellar shots, I make the dishes I blog about and try to present it as you’d see it. While this sometimes inadvertently supports my tagline, “Real food. [...]

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The Truth About Food Photography

August 6, 2009

MC from Calgary recently asked, “Why doesn’t anything turn out as in the cookbook picture??” MC, I think at one time or another we’ve all felt your pain. The cake in the magazine photograph towers three miles high while your looks like a flapjack. The cookbook shows a roast chicken resting on the platter in [...]