How to make food look good?

~xLilyOfTheValley Jun 20, 2012 Student General Artist

Hey all! I posted it in this part of the forum since culinary art is also art! ;D Please tell me if I posted it in the wrong part of the forum.

Anyway, back to what I actually wanted to ask..
I've been writing recipes for a blog for a short while now (about three months), and I take pictures of how the food turns out to be. I like the pictures, they aren't as professional as some of you can take them, but they're fine.
They just are a little too normal..
Does anyone have a good tutorial or just some tips on how to make your food look good and some tips on food photography? I didn't really seem to find anything useful at tutorials. I might've been looking wrong.

I mean this with good looking food by the way:
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~AngieMyst Jun 22, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Seems like you have some really good suggestions and tips from the other people who commented, but I'd say that one really important thing is a program like Photoshop. If you read Photoshop tutorials, you can find really great ways to improve the looks of your images. There are things like filters and image adjustments that can make a really great photo.

~xLilyOfTheValley Jun 25, 2012 Student General Artist

I know how to make the pictures itself look good, but the food must look delicious too!

Photoshop can make a beautiful picture of cereal look good but how do you know how to take a nice picture of cereal for example? :3
Thanks though. :3

`phoenixleo Jun 20, 2012

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~xLilyOfTheValley Jun 22, 2012 Student General Artist

Thanks alot!

`phoenixleo Jun 22, 2012

Welcome.

~Glori305 Jun 20, 2012

1) for photos of food like you are looking at, you would need a lightbox at the least. I know if you google it there are a few options for creating a cheap lightbox out there. And a bunch of portable lights, or real sunlight.

2) Professional photography of real food, rarely photographs the actual food. I took a class in this, and for the first shot you linked, instead of icecream, you would use butter, since it would not melt as fast. In the second shot, the strawberries might be fake, or waxed, to keep them shinny.

Food changes it's appearance the longer it sits out, so quick pictures of your food are going to be vital. Also the first shot there is playing with focus, which is pretty hard to do with the general point and shoot camera that most of us have.

~xLilyOfTheValley Jun 22, 2012 Student General Artist

Eww! So all that delicious food might as well not be real! So evil xD
Thanks for taking the time to reply!

~Glori305 Jun 22, 2012

Your welcome, now I know there are some great food artist here, with good photo skills who are photographing real food and it still looks delicious, but since your links were off DA, they are more likely "doctored" food. You might want to go into the culinary arts gallery, and send a note to a few of the people with great photo's.

The guy I took the class from had a selection of very real looking fruits, vegetables, and sliced fruits and veggies that he had collected over the years. Some of them did not look very real in person, but looked more real than the real thing, side by side in a photo. Was one of the most interesting classes I ever took.

~xLilyOfTheValley Jun 25, 2012 Student General Artist

Ah yeah! I didn't think of that yet! Thanks!

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