Advanced Lighting for Food Photography

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Food photographer Joe Glyda is back in the kitchen. In his second course, Joe is teaching some advanced lighting setups and working with his food stylist to create melted cheeses, grilled meats, crisp vegetables, and colorful fruit salad. Joe talks about the relationship between photographer and food stylist and the importance of using dummy food before shooting the final product.

Introduction (01:10) Joe and food stylist David Kennedy talk about what will be covered in this course
Equipment and Settings (03:34) Joe goes over his camera and lighting equipment and other tools that he uses during his shoots
Ham Sandwich (12:10) Joe and David build a sandwich and talk about how ingredients are styled and combined
Pepperoni Pizza, Part 1 (15:58) Joe talks about the importance of a pre-production meeting and David begins assembling the ingredients for the pepperoni pizza
A Tip From Joe (00:38) A trick for making sure the plate or pizza board does not move during the shoot
Pepperoni Pizza, Part 2 (07:04) Joe begins shooting the pizza and talks about the final preparations for the pull shot
Nachos (15:21) This lesson covers how to build a plate of nachos and includes a tip for giving your clients options when it comes to food garnish
Carrot Cake (09:26) After sharing some tips on cutting a piece of cake, Joe begins experimenting with lower angle and longer lens for this shot
Steak (12:24) Simulate a hot grill cooking meat with fake coals and fake grill marks and creative lighting
Fruit Salad (04:36) Create daylight in the studio using a single strobe and fill cards
Tip 2 (00:29) Put your tripod away! Always start fresh for each shoot
Seltzer (03:52) An easy shot for beginners to try and home
Shrimp (05:27) The final shot of the day is a shrimp dish. After getting the safe shot with the tripod, Joe experiments with some different handheld angles

Course Time: 01 Hours 32 Minutes

S. Young

Jan 15 2013

I found this fascinating and useful. I have my first proper food shoot coming up and I am so thankful I have this expert advice. More from Joe would be brilliant!
D. Filatov

Apr 9 2012

Thank's!!! It's easy and perfect. I think, the knowledge in this course have be my shoot better than before it.

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Joe Glyda

Food Photographer

Joe Glyda is a Commercial photographer based out of Tulsa, OK. He has been in the photography business his entire life and retired from Kraft Foods as the Digital Imaging manager in 2009. But don’t...VIEW FULL BIO»

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