In the past decade, food photography has exploded more than any other discipline. Camera phones have improved rapidly, and now scrolling through a Facebook feed feels like reading Martha Stewart’s personal blog.
Nowadays, any Sunday farmer’s market is ripe with stunning photographic opportunities, featuring colourful produce and crumbly bakery treats pre-arranged in their ideal setting. Loftus displays in the video just how easy it is to get a delectable image, whether it be with a DSLR or a camera phone. This video focuses mostly on creating the perfect on-the-go background. There are a few ways to change the background. You can move something (or someone) behind the object, as Loftus does, but you can also change your own perspective – get higher or lower, or come at the thing from the complete opposite direction.
Food is the sustenance of life, so having a human element in the image reminds us that the food doesn’t just look pretty, it’s enjoyable and satisfying to the stomach, too.
Since we become more fascinated with food photography, its the simple term that comes to mind. 'We eat with our eyes." So being able to photograph what we find delicious and to also share that with Instagram...you need a few basic tips to make sure that chocolate chip cookie looks just as good in a photo, as it does in real life.