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With a new year comes the optimism of a fresh start, and maybe for you, a new food blog! Whether you’re into any aspect of food photography, including food blogging, owning a food business, or just having fun on Instagram, we’ve rounded up five of our best (and actionable!) food photography tips from five of our current Baked members – Heidi Richter, Kris Osborne, Kelly Neil, Alexandra Daum, and Kelly Brisson.
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Photo: Kelly Neil
As the weather heats up, we’re loathe to turn the oven on. Enter, frozen treats: ice cream, popsicles, bombe cakes, frozen bars — we can’t get enough of them. But if you’re in the food photography (or styling) business, frozen foods can be really tricky to capture, as they have a tendency to melt away faster than the snap of a shutter.
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We’re in the process of devouring Mardi Michels‘ new cookbook In The French Kitchen With Kids, and, as we’re happily baking French baguettes, lemon and thyme roast chickens, and raspberry financiers, we have many crumbs, spills, and general messes to clean up when we’re doing food styling and food photography. Here are 10 Essential Items for Food Styling we can’t live without!
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There’s no shortage of food photography online, and a quick scroll through Pinterest reveals an endless stream of food photos. Newbie, budding, and aspiring food photographers and bloggers are often told to “buy a piece of white foam core and place it next to your food to fill in the shadows“.
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