Styling Food

Food photography is such big things. One of the most important elements of food photography is the food styling. There’s so many tips and tricks when you are preparing food. Do you know that if you rinse in cold water an avocado immediately after cutting it, it will prevent it from yellowing for at least several hours. Another is the placement of the food itself and the ingredients that follows. There’s a long list, hopefully I’ll learn a good number while I work on my photos.

Brownie is a really good boy, and really wants those quesadillas!

I made some lunch the other day and though that this is possibly photogenic enough to take some pictures. So in this shot I actually went to my backyard. Brownie (my dog immediately got excite when he saw food, but I made him lay down, stay and watch me photographed it. First up, the cutting board I used was too dull and matted so I used some olive oil and wipe down the board to give the wood a nice darker tone. I laid down the board carefully onto the backyard concrete floor, then laid down the quesdillas and shot it overhead. I kept the picture slightly underexposed since I like the texture of the concrete.

Also one of my pictures featured on 500px

There’s also other ways of displaying the food. I tried plating it restaurant style. For this one I also used an old wooden table as the setting. I stacked the pairs of quesadillas and added little cute toothpicks that I bought from World Market.