Food Photography Basic Techniques

You will meet Ernesto and his beginnings in photography. You will see in depth his professional career, how he began to make gastronomic photography and how he has evolved in creative techniques and processes. He will also tell you about the artists who have influenced him in his work and remain his main references today.

You will see what it is and what a photo shoot implies from conceptualization to final delivery. You will start with the planning of the project by preparing a photographic brief from a template, to determine its tone and needs.

You will immediately know the necessary equipment to make your food photo session a reality. Ernesto will explain in depth everything about the camera and the ideal lenses, the advantages of using studio flash, the operation of the lighting angles and the possibilities that light modifiers give us. Then, you will see the different elements that you can use to build your set or stage.

Before starting the session, you will learn the basics of lighting and its characteristics to create a specific style. You will see the best way to measure the quality and quantity of light ideal for your photographs and the teacher will show you the two most common types of lighting with flash in food photography: window light and chiaroscuro.

Now yes, get to work! From Ernesto's hand, you will assemble your photographic set from scratch: you will place props , photographic equipment and apply the window light and chiaroscuro.

To finish the course, you'll see how to create a digital postproduction workflow to maintain the same profiles and color quality in both Lightroom and Photoshop; you will create the final look of your images and, finally, you will output your files.