One thing I have to do in developing UVFood is provide photographs of… food. Also restaurants, but they’re relatively easy. It’s the food that’s difficult.

You want photographs of food to look appealing. You want them to look like you’d want to eat the food! But a lot of food photography is just plain awful looking. Delicious, luxurious looking dishes and up looking shiny and flat and alien in photos. Proper lighting is a big thing, but some foods just don’t hold up under the heat of the lights - like ice cream, which is sometimes substituted with mashed potatoes.

A lot of effort goes into the staging of good food photography, but once you have the photos, even if they’re not lit or staged well, there are probably still adjustments you can do to improve them.

John Cho-Tabetai has a nice article on doing exactly that; if you have some food photos you want to help out but aren’t sure what to do you might want to check it out. The link is below.

I still have a copy of “Digital Food Photography” on my bookshelf… it’s been there at least a year already. Some day I’ll get to it… I haven’t really had the time to take many food photos, anyway.

[From Cho-Tabetai » Histograms and color balancing: How to get the most out of your food photography.]

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