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In most situations, the same rules apply to fashion photography composition just like any other photographic genre. However, emphasising the subject is one thing. Showcasing what they’re wearing at the same time may require some serious composition skills. Thankfully, we have some useful tips to help you take well-composed magazine-worthy…
Whether you are a food blogger or starting out in professional food photography, you will need to develop your food styling skills. Food styling is inseparable from lighting and composition. All of these components work together equally in the aesthetic of the final photo. If one of them is off, the…
You can have the most beautiful, directional light, and a composition that perfectly follows the golden ratio, but if your burger looks sloppy or the maple syrup has soaked into your pancakes, the end result will be less than appealing. Food photography styling is essential. It’s a food stylist’s job…
Composition is one of the fundamental ideas behind all art, whether photography, painting or graphic design. It is the word to describe how everything in your piece fits together. But it is oven overlooked and dismissed. Photographers of all levels tend to worry first about their cameras, their lenses, the…
Unlike the technical side of food photography, the creative aspects can be a lot harder to define. Composition can make or break your images, yet not every compositional tool works for every image, every time. Good photography results from a series of the right decisions around lighting and composition. In…
“Go play with your food”– Said no mother ever. But guess what? This article is all about having fun with food through food photography. Thanks to food-centric blogs and websites, food photography has become very popular. It is also a good and easy way to enter the micro stock market:…
Creating great food photography relies in part on the application of compositional theory. Although we can refer to these tools as the “rules of composition”, they may be thought of more as guidelines. The word “rules” implies that you can’t break them but this is not true because art is…
Golden hour photography can result in some amazing and almost magical photos. Portrait and landscape photographers favour the golden hour time of day and sometimes build entire sessions around it. Here are 10 reasons why you should shoot during the golden hour: 1. Unwanted Shadows When taking portraits, light direction…
There are many different rules of composition, and it’s hard to know how to use them all correctly. The fact of the matter is that most people never learn how to use most of them, and that leads to some very misused and abused rules. We’re going to look at…
When I was a beginner in self-portrait photography, I often struggled with indoor photography. I found walls and ceilings dull to be quite honest. And this made me hate bad weather and yearn for summer all the time. The outside world, filled with nature, space, and spontaneity, was what truly…