Shooting Food Photography- Tutorial

• Use natural light
• Make sure the area where you are shooting is not too dark (there is light) 
• Avoid hot spots (white spots of glare) by- using tarnished silver, moving shiny things out of direct light
• The food doesn't need to be photographed the same way you would eat it- it just needs to look good 
• Use props to suggest ways you might eat the food (ie: whipped cream with pie or whipped cream sprinkled with cocoa powder on  top of a mug of hot chocolate) 
• Casually hide imperfections in your food by covering them up (ie: if your banana bread has fallen in the middle, wrap part of it in a cloth or paper) 
• Use bright splashes of color to make the food look enticing 
• Meat is hard to photograph- you will need to have something with it or on top of it to make it look interesting
• Have an interesting background (but not so interesting that it takes away from the food) 
• Using crumpled linen underneath a cooling rack full of cookies 
• Using a patterned piece of cloth 
• If you are shooting above the food (bird's eye view), make sure that you are directly above it and not slightly to the side. 
• If it is editorial food photography- think about where you could put text  (maybe leave some space to one side where you could put a title or some text)