If photography is your passion and food your obsession, then you have the perfect combination to make a good Food Photographer. Food Photography is one of the most widely practiced branches of photography. Food makes for a nice photographic subject because of the vibrant colors, natural appeal and fresh feel. Everyone likes to see delicious food pictures and eat those mouth-watering delicacies too. But while eating food is a relatively simple affair, photographing it can be much trickier. You will require a lot of experience and patience to do food photography.

To begin with, the first thing one needs to keep in mind is that your food should look absolutely fresh and appetizing. Unless it looks tempting in reality, you cannot make it look delicious in your photograph. Secondly it’s necessary that you use the right kind of props, cutlery and background with your food. That will convey the mood of your photograph and add texture, colour and style to it. Thirdly it is necessary to have apt lighting on your food as food photography is always done indoors and you need sufficient light sources so that your picture does not look under-exposed or dull. Light should be thrown at the food in a very tactful way as ultimately it’s the lighting that will highlight your food. Lighting creates a particular kind of mood for your food. For example if you are clicking chocolates then you would keep the lighting low to create the sinful tempting effect of chocolate. Moreover, using a good macro lens like the Sony 100mm 2.8 Macro, can help you obtain even closer and more mouth-watering pictures. Lastly it’s important to choose the right angle to click your food as an angular shot will give a 3 dimensional feel to your photo and add texture to it. The best part about food photography is that after clicking your client’s delectable delicacies, you can have them too!