Food photography blogs can help you plan a shoot, study a composition or learn how to light a dish. Some publish photography lessons; others share recipes with pictures you can use as inspiration.
This guide keeps the original selection of 20 recipe and visual blogs plus five teaching resources. It explains what each provides and flags older entries whose current blog could not be verified. For practical lessons, go to the teaching section below.
How to Use Food Photography Blogs
Food photography blogs serve two different purposes. Recipe blogs show finished pictures you can study for colour, backgrounds and composition. Photography teaching blogs explain the lighting, camera settings or editing behind a shot.
If you want lessons, start with the teaching section below. Two Loves Studio covers composition and editing; Food Photography Blog explains equipment and lighting; The Bite Shot offers practical tutorials; and Gastrostoria focuses on food and beverage photography.
For inspiration, pick one photograph and study one decision. Where is the light coming from? How much space surrounds the plate? Which props support the dish? Then practise that decision with your own subject. Our food photography guide can help you turn those observations into a shoot.
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Gastrostoria by Darina Kopcok
Blogs Featuring Food Photography
These recipe blogs and visual journals offer examples to study. The original order is retained and does not rank the photographers. Some older entries are marked unavailable because their current destinations could not be verified. The images below are the original examples from this article.
20. La Tartine Gourmande
Béatrice Peltre is the food writer, food photographer and stylist behind La Tartine Gourmande. Her site brings together French-inspired recipes, baking and categories for food photography and food styling.
Browse the recipes for ideas about presenting ingredients and finished dishes. Pay attention to what the food stylist includes around the plate, then try a simpler arrangement of your own. This is a recipe and visual archive; not every post is a photography lesson.
La Tartine Gourmande
19. Healthy Laura
Current destination: Instagram. The link for Healthy Laura opens a social profile, rather than an open recipe or photography blog. We could not inspect its posts or confirm that it still provides the lessons described in the original article.
The original example below remains, but use the verified teaching blogs later in this guide if you need a lesson you can read without relying on Instagram access.
18. Use Your Noodles
Anja Burgar runs Use Your Noodles. The linked recipe archive includes seasonal dishes and food photographs, while the wider site also has food-photography education.
Use the recipes as subjects for practice and study how ingredients and natural props work together in a frame. Look for the photography resources on Anja’s site when you want explanations of technique; the recipe index itself is mainly for cooking inspiration.
17. Imagelicious
Julia is the cook behind Imagelicious, a blog focused on simple recipes, baking and cooking in the oven. Her About page also explains her interest in food and lifestyle photography.
The recipe archive gives you everyday subjects to photograph without elaborate preparation. Compare how the pictures present a finished dish and make its ingredients easy to recognise. Treat it as a recipe archive and a source of examples, rather than a sequence of camera lessons.
Imagelicious
16. Drizzle and Dip
Sam Linsell is the chef, food stylist, photographer and recipe developer behind Drizzle and Dip. She creates the recipes, photography and writing for the site.
Her archive ranges from pastries and desserts to everyday meals. Use it to compare how different food textures are shown: a baked crust, a sauce or a soft filling each gives you a different subject to practise on. The main emphasis is recipes and their finished images.
15. Bea’s Cookbook
Bea’s Cookbook combines seasonal recipes with a journal about photography. Bea’s About page describes her background in Poland and her move to England.
The journal includes posts on food styling and backlighting. That makes it a place to look for an explanation as well as a finished image. Study how color and texture draw attention to the food. Some prominently listed posts date from 2018, so use the archive for its ideas without assuming a current workshop schedule.
Bea’s Cookbook by Bea Lubas
14. The Little Plantation
Kimberly Espinel is the food photographer, stylist and teacher behind The Little Plantation. Her site combines plant-based food with photography resources and courses.
It is a crossover between recipe inspiration and food-photography education. Her About page describes an approach built around rich colours, texture and storytelling. Browse the blog for examples, then follow the photography resources if you want to develop those choices in your own images. Course listings do not mean every blog post is a free lesson.
13. Adventures in Cooking
Eva Kosmas Flores runs Adventures in Cooking. Her site covers seasonal recipes, gardening and travel, and links to her photography education and Lightroom presets.
Study how a recipe fits into a wider story: ingredients, preparation and the setting can all belong in a sequence of images. Use those observations to develop your own signature photography style. Visit the education links for lessons; the recipe archive is primarily a source of cooking and visual inspiration.
12. Pearls of East
Current destination unavailable. The previously linked Pearls of East address returned unrelated gambling content during our October 2026 check. It is no longer linked here.
The original photograph and its credit are retained below. We could not verify a current primary blog for Shibani Mishra, so this entry should not be used as a current food-photography recommendation.
Pearls of East by Shibani Mishra
11. Evergreen Kitchen
Bri Beaudoin and Anguel Dimov are the team behind Evergreen Kitchen. Bri develops the recipes and styles food; Anguel is the photographer and videographer.
The site focuses on vegetarian and vegan recipes. Browse its meals and desserts for examples of presenting vegetables, grains and sauces. The About page explains the division of work, which is a reminder that a finished food photograph can involve both styling and photography. The main blog is a recipe resource.
10. The Bojon Gourmet
Alanna Taylor-Tobin is the pastry chef, recipe developer and photographer behind The Bojon Gourmet. Her site focuses on gluten-free baking with alternative flours.
The recipes offer subjects with distinct textures, from cakes and cookies to tarts. Look at how a slice or broken edge shows what is inside a finished bake. Her gluten-free cookbook The Alternative Baker won the IACP Cookbook Award in the Health and Special Diet category.
9. Our Food Stories
Photographer Laura Muthesius and stylist Nora Eisermann created Our Food Stories. Their About page explains that the blog began as a place to share gluten-free recipes and their visual work.
Alongside the recipes, their “Dinner Stories” series shows food as part of a gathering. Study how table settings, the wider room and small details support the meal. This is a source of food and lifestyle photography inspiration, rather than a beginner camera course.
8. Call Me Cupcake
Linda Lomelino started Call Me Cupcake in 2009. The blog brings together baking, food photography and Swedish recipes, with cakes, tarts and other desserts in the archive.
Use the pictures to study how a whole cake and a served portion need different compositions. The recipe index also includes baking how-tos, such as covering a cake with frosting and making a lattice pie crust. Those are preparation tutorials, so do not expect every how-to to explain camera settings.
7. Olive & Mango
Joanne Rappos runs Olive & Mango, sharing home-cooking recipes influenced by her Greek background and her time in the Caribbean. Her About page says she and her husband returned to Canada, and identifies him as the photographer.
Browse the recipes for ideas about plating everyday food and showing a meal ready to serve. The photography sits alongside the cooking instructions. It can help you choose subjects and arrangements for a shoot, but the main blog teaches recipes.
Olive & Mango example from the original article
6. Half Baked Harvest
Tieghan Gerard is the recipe developer, food photographer and stylist behind Half Baked Harvest. She started the blog in 2012 and creates and photographs recipes in Colorado.
The site is mainly a recipe resource, with food images to study alongside the cooking steps. Look at how toppings, sauces and a served portion make a dish recognisable. Her cookbook Half Baked Harvest is available through booksellers, including Amazon.
5. Little Upside Down Cake
Old blog link unavailable. The address previously linked for Little Upside Down Cake now redirects to an unrelated gambling website. The link has been removed from this entry.
Archived Blogger posts identify Sanda Vuckovic Pagaimo as the author of Little Upside-Down Cake. Her original archive remains readable, but it does not establish a current photography teaching site. The original example below is retained as a historical entry.
4. The Curious Pear
The Curious Pear is the food and travel project associated with writer Meg Abbott and photographer Issy Croker. Time Out’s contributor profile identifies the pair and their work.
The link here opens their Instagram profile. We could confirm the profile’s title but could not inspect its posts or verify a current standalone blog. Treat the original example below as editorial food-and-travel inspiration, not evidence of an active photography tutorial archive.
3. What Should I Eat for Breakfast Today? (blog)
The site has a readable recipe archive, including vanilla cheese with raspberries and travel entries. These recipes give you subjects to photograph and ideas for presenting a dish.
If the main page does not display its content, use that archive. The original example remains below.
2. Krautkopf
Susann Probst and Yannic Schon are the photographers behind Krautkopf. Their current About page describes their move from Berlin to a village in Mecklenburg, where their garden and the seasons shape their cooking and photography.
Browse their culinary stories for examples of connecting food with its ingredients and setting. Their stated approach centres on natural light and keeping a frame simple. The site offers visual inspiration and seasonal cooking; check individual posts for explanations of the photographic process.
1. Create. Cook. Share.
Margaret runs Create. Cook. Share., a blog about gluten-free home cooking with a strong Greek influence. Her About page explains that she later studied photography to learn how to photograph the food she was making.
The current recipe index is organised by course, ingredients and diet. Browse it for everyday dishes to practise photographing, including dessert recipes. The emphasis is cooking and recipe images, rather than a photography course.
Create Cook Share by Margaret Pahos
Blogs to Learn Food Photography From
Start here when you need an explanation of lighting, composition or editing. The accessible resources publish photography education alongside their other work. Check a lesson’s requirements before you begin: a recipe image, a written tutorial and a paid course offer give you different kinds of help.
5. Two Loves Studio
Rachel Korinek is the photographer and educator behind Two Loves Studio. Her blog has sections for lighting, composition and styling, props and backgrounds, and editing.
Start with a topic that matches the problem in your own picture. The site’s editing resources include Lightroom, Capture One and Photoshop, while its composition and lighting sections address decisions made during a shoot. Our Lightroom editing guide can help if you need to learn the basic controls first.
Two Loves Studio by Rachel Korinek
4. Food Photography Blog
Christina Peters created Food Photography Blog to answer questions from food bloggers and aspiring photographers. Its topics include equipment, lighting, food and prop styling, editing and the business of food photography.
Use the topic categories to find an answer to a specific problem, such as choosing equipment or building a lighting setup. Her paid learning platform, The Food Photography Club, is separate from the public blog. Check its current content and enrolment status before you join.
3. The Bite Shot
Joanie Simon is the commercial food photographer, author and educator who founded The Bite Shot.
The blog includes posts on sourcing props, understanding memory cards, choosing camera bags and finding low-effort foods to practise photographing. It also groups lessons under lighting, styling, technical topics, business and editing. Pair a lesson with our photography tips if you need a reminder of the camera basics.
Her YouTube channel offers another format for learning. The paid community is a separate resource; the presence of a blog link does not guarantee free access to every lesson.
2. Gastrostoria
Darina Kopcok is the food and beverage photographer behind Gastrostoria. Her blog includes lessons on shadow control, reflections, mood boards and artificial lighting.
The archive contains examples such as a two-light setup for a Mediterranean mood and ways to reduce unwanted hot spots. Choose a lesson that matches your setup and practise one change at a time. If you are still shooting on auto, read our guide to manual mode first. Courses and other paid resources are listed separately on her site.
1. Brooke Lark
Teaching site unavailable at the old address. The previously linked Brooke Lark website returned a hosting page during this check. We could not verify the crash courses or Facebook-group benefits described in the earlier article.
The original image remains below. Use the verified photography teaching sites above for accessible lessons while this entry’s current destination is unresolved.
Conclusion
Choose a blog for the next thing you want to practise. A recipe archive can help you find a subject and study a composition. A photography tutorial can explain how to build the shot.
Start with one dish and one decision about light or styling. Make your own photograph, compare the result and change one thing before shooting again.
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