Food$Photography$ · TheBeginnings...
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Food Photography
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The Beginnings Food photography like all s8ll life photography, it has its origins from s8ll life pain8ng. Although as it evolved over 8me in turned into a commercial genre used to adver8ses and sell food products. In recent years the idea of photographing food has been taken on by the consumer side of the market in the blogging world and by those on social media plaDorms such as Pinterest and Instagram. S8ll life pain8ngs of the 17th century draw aHen8on to food as having a natural beauty. The genre of s8ll life pain8ng with food can be traced back to the 16th century but it wasn’t un8l the 17th century that it became well know through out Europe.
Vanessa Rees Vanessa Rees is a food and lifestyle photographer who works out of Brooklyn. Vanessa has work for such as Ralph Lauren, Food and Wine Magazine and Crane & Co. Vanessa’s food photography is mostly loca8on based with a combina8on of over head and side on shots. The over head shots will usually consist the food item along with the ruminants of the making process. Some of these though look as if it could have been photographed in a studio. Many of the side on shots show the food item along with a small part of the background so that it hints at loca8on.
Tim Hill Tim Hill is a commercial and stock food photographer. From going through his online porDolio I have no8ced he prefers to have a loca8on built up around the food item(s). Its hard to say whether his photos have been taken using ar8ficial light or natural light from a window. If the photos where done with natural light then I believe a reflector must have been used since the ligh8ng is coming from more than one direc8on. If its ar8ficial ligh8ng then mul8ply lights can be used to get an all around effect.
Carl Warner Carl Warner crates images from food for commercials and other pieces of work. For much of his work Carl Warner will set a camera up and work from the perspec8ve of the camera to create an image. Of course unlike Vanessa Rees and David Lo\us, Carl work is studio based. Carl Warner has done adver8sing work for Uncle Ben’s and Colman’s. Along with his photographic work Carl has also done TV adverts for Glenfiddich whisky and BeHy Crocker.
David Lo\us David Lo\us is known for his work with TV chef Jamie Oliver. Along with his professional level work, David uses Instagram as plaDorm to present himself on the go. From going though his photo gallery on his main website and his Instagram profile, I have no8ced that he o\en photographs food in the same way whether using a camera or a phone. David Lo\us’s most preferred angle of approach is above the food and with even ligh8ng to show all aspects of the food. For over 20 years David has photographed over 100 books including Jamie Oliver’s interna8onal best sellers. David published his own book called “Around The World in 80 Dishes”.