In this course, award-winning food and advertising photographer Bill Robbins demonstrates the art and science behind shooting food and drink photographs. The course explores how to enhance a food's color, shape, and texture and how to convey a sense of mood, environment, and story. The course also addresses essential gear, effective prop placement, and lighting techniques, and includes tips for styling various dishes, staging and photographing drinks, shooting on location at a restaurant, and editing the final photos.
Topics include:
- Understanding what makes a food photo appetizing
- Comparing emotional and graphic compositional styles
- Choosing the right camera
- Evaluating lens options
- Choosing light reflectors
- Finding creative backgrounds
- Creating specular and diffuse lighting setups
- Creating different looks for each dish
- Creating a chill effect for drinks
- Shooting on location at a restaurant
- Editing photos
- author
- Bill Robbins
- subject
- Photography, Cameras + Gear, Lighting, Photo Assignments, Home Computing, Photography
- level
- Intermediate
- duration
- 1h 58m
- released
- Dec 01, 2011
- DVD
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