I'm sharing the 5 best places to get cheap food photo props today! If you've been food blogging for a while, you've probably bought a few new dishes here and there to try to help your photos stand out. If you are a prop fanatic hoarder enthusiast like me, you may have a crazy growing stock of plates, bowls, silverware, ramekins, glasses, holiday accessories, paper straws (oh how I ...
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Food Photography Friday: 5 Tips for Creating Better Square Images for Instagram and Foodgawker
These 5 tips are my secrets for taking and editing high-quality square images for Instagram and Foodgawker. I was chatting with a fellow blogger, Jenna over at A Savory Feast, a few days ago about a workshop she'd taken for creating great images and other tips for growing your Instagram. She casually commented that I might not need the tips because "your pictures are always great!" ...
Food Photography Friday: Why White Balance Is So Important For Food Photos (and How to Adjust It)
Step-by-step tutorial for how and why to adjust white balance in your food photos with free Pic Monkey photo editor. I'm sure you've all heard that we eat first with our eyes. That makes food photography super important. You can have a super amazing recipe, but if your image is a blurry brown blob, you probably won't have people jumping up and down and drooling. I don't want to call any ...
Food Photography Friday: Build A DIY (Lowel Ego) Tabletop Softbox for Under $30!
Build A DIY (Lowel Ego) Tabletop Softbox for under $30! I am super duper excited to share this tutorial with you today! For the longest time I have been forced to make my meals according to when the best natural light was available to photograph it. This meant either not photographing the foods we eat for dinner, making dinner at 2 pm so I could photograph it before reheating dinner at dinner ...
Food Photography Friday: My $2 Secret for Better Lighting in Your Blog Photos
Want better lighting in your blog photos? Check out my $2 secret! What's the secret you ask? Well, if you saw inside my camera bag last week, you may remember that I listed a white piece of foam board as one of my essentials. That's the big little secret! I wanted to share a few comparison photos with you in this post to show you what a difference using a reflector for "fill" light can make in ...
Food Photography Friday: What’s In My Camera Bag
Whats in My Camera Bag? It's not as fancy as you might think when looking at my photos. I get a lot of questions and comments about my photos, so I thought it was about time to start a food photography series. I want to kick it off with a quick run down of the gear and software I use. Although my photos might look like I have a lot of fancy gear, I really don't. In fact, you could ...