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| Tomato and Olympus camera. Photo: Emily Farris. |
These days,
food porn seems almost to be giving the old-fashioned kind a run for its money. Everyone with a digital camera and an appetite fancies him or herself an amateur food pornographer, which is to say there's a lot of bad food photography out there alongside the good stuff.
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. 
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