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| Tomato and Olympus camera. Photo: Emily Farris. |
Camera companies are catching on to the trend and trying to make a buck, with digital point and shoot models that are manufactured with food photography settings, like this Olympus which has a "cuisine" option, and this Sony, with its "gourmet food" mode. Chances are good that if you purchased a camera recently, it has some kind of food photography option and you don't even know it. If your food photographs are less than porntastic (like the tomato shot here), it might be worth your while to consult your camera's manual or look online to find out.
If you don't have a food setting, don't rush right out to buy a new camera that does.
One pro shutterbug's opinion, after the jump.
Owen Morris, who until recently was the food photographer for Kansas City's alternative weekly's Food Blog Fat City, says that if you and your point-and-shoot haven't mastered the art of food-tography, "It's more a worthwhile investment to borrow a copy of Photoshop and get comfortable playing around with its settings -- there are hundreds of good tutorials online -- then just be sure the pictures you take are with a high-quality setting on the camera."
Finally, as everyone who has ever photographed food (and/or naked people) told us: always use natural light.
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