From the course: Learning Food and Drink Photography
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Staging cereal on a spoon
From the course: Learning Food and Drink Photography
Staging cereal on a spoon
In this chapter, I'm working with Claire Stancer, a food stylist whom I've worked with for many years. Claire is going to show us a few situations over the next few movies where you might want to have a food stylist on set. In this course we've been exploring many ways of styling and shooting for the food photographer, but now let's stop and take a look at what a photographer does when we need the help in producing something beyond our own capabilities. Sometimes there are times that we need a food stylist to help make the food perfect for the camera. You'd find this to be done in advertising, packaging design, cookbooks, and editorial. So our first setup looks simple, a spoon full of cereal. So why do I need a food stylist to help put cereal on the spoon? Let's look at this before and after, and you'll see a big difference between the two. Before we move ahead, I just wanted to take a look at our little set that we put together, and you'll notice the C-stand that has my spoon…
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