Food Photo Tools & Tricks
Lesson 9 from: FAST CLASS: Getting Started in Professional Food PhotographySteve Hansen
Food Photo Tools & Tricks
Lesson 9 from: FAST CLASS: Getting Started in Professional Food PhotographySteve Hansen
Lessons
Class Introduction: Getting Started in Professional Food Photography
05:57 2Tour of a Modern Food Photography Studio
04:37 3Prop Styling with Malina Lopez
06:03 4Food Styling with Steve & Malina
03:28 5Working with a Digital Technician
05:19 6Food Photography Gear
24:29 7Why Use Natural Light?
08:01 8Natural Light Food Shoot Prep
30:23Food Photo Tools & Tricks
02:30 10Capturing Food in Natural Light
06:54 11Natural Light Shoot Final Touches
19:50 12Shooting For a Client
07:24 13LED Lighting Overview
08:51 14Prep for Oven Shoot with LED Lights
10:36 15Food Photography Print Marketing
04:49 16Food Photography Portfolio Tips
09:14 17Pricing and Negotiating for Food Photography
12:13 18Final Food Photo Career Advice
03:01Lesson Info
Food Photo Tools & Tricks
So as far as, I'm gonna get into a little bit of food styling tools. I have a lot of different kinds of spritzers that I use for most, a lot for beverage work. They each provide sort of a different spray, and every photographer has their own secret bottle that you can only buy at Walmart at midnight. (giggling lightly) And you've got these, this is sort of a perfume dispenser, and it creates a very randomized spray, but you have to be careful with how you spray it or sometimes it doesn't really, it doesn't translate you can really create a hard or an overly misty kind of spray. This is actually what I really like is the Preval sprayer. You can buy these on Amazon and it's sort of an, it's a powered mister. So it uses aerosol and then whatever you put in here it can be paint, you can have paint chocolate, you can spray chocolate, out of this thing I believe and not have it clog too readily. You have to add more cocoa butter to it to thin it out. But I think this can handle really, I thi...
nk that's a reason people, a lot of people use as you can put the... I use the 50% glycerin and water mixture for the droplets sometimes. Sometimes I'll just use water, water can look really good. If you spray the 50, 50 glycerin water mix which is a common thing for photographers to do because it dries and doesn't go anywhere and you can have droplets on your glass all day. If you do this on fruit or tomato and you get an up close shot of it. The the color of the fruit actually extends out onto the droplet so it looks like you just sprayed it with orange paint if it's an orange as water will actually have a nice clear translucent look. So it depends how macro you're getting as to whether or not you wanna use glycerin or not. But this is a really good sprayer and then this is also another decent one but I don't use it too often. So I do a mix of, I do a really fine spray to begin with using this or in Evian mister if I'm using water which I think is in here without getting too... Please be in here. This is just an Evian mister people carry this around their purse to spray it on their face for real. And I use it for glassware but it is water and it's a really fine mist. So I start out with a fine mist and I get progressively larger in the droplets. So I'll spray it with either this or this. And then I'll come in with something that I know is gonna be a little bit more archaic and random. In spots where I think it's deserved, not necessarily on the label of a beer bottle or piece... Fruit is pretty forgiving. So I just tend to have this on hand and just go with it.
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