Free PDF: Do’s and Dont"s of Food Styling

Want to improve your food styling skills? Learn the essential do's and don'ts of food styling in this comprehensive guide.

Wait, don't eat it yet! No, I don't want your ugly fingers in the frame or your open mouth ready to take a bite... Not quite the aesthetic I'm looking for!

Yes, the food will get cold but my instagram will be on fire. It's a good trade!

Meet Kimberly Espinel

Hi, my name is Kimberly...! Oh, sorry I got confused for a moment, there! Hi, her name is Kimberly (much better):

Kimberly Espinel (@kespinel) is providing us with this PDF guide and all the photographs in this article are hers. So, suffice it to say: she is a food photographer, food stylist, food photography teacher, the author of the Amazon best-selling book, Creative food photographer (didn't I mention this already?) as well as the host of the Eat Capture Share podcast... I think you should rethink the order of your podcast's name, Kimberly!

Our teacher lives in cosmopolitan London with my husband and son (sorry, I got confused again...!). Kimberly eats a mainly plant-based diet, which influences her work so much (no wonder... I don't think other people would like to wait for Kimberly to take the perfect shot of their food...). She celebrates colors and is known for her food styling of 'tricky 'foods like stews and curries.

Kimberly's Course

Are you hungry for the food styling PDF? You will have to wait... Treat reading this section as training for the times you will have to suppress your appetite when taking pictures of your food... It's getting colder, by the minute (or hour)!

Learn to design, photograph and retouch delicious photos for social networks directly from your smartphone with Kimberly Espinel's online Course on Food Styling and Instagram Photography

Food photography takes advantage of the colors already present in nature... And a bit of post saturation too, for when nature starts to decay...!

In this course, Kimberly will guide you through the process of designing, photographing, and editing delicious food photos for Instagram. You will discover your personal style and capture the beauty of your favorite dishes.

Get ready to make appetizing images that you will share with the whole world... Except your family who won't have a taste of it...!

Free Download

PDFs don't go bad so don't worry, reading the last section was worth it... Because you read it whole right?

I will share with you just one tip from the download: "Shoot a tomato salad"... Okey, that sounds a bit aggressive...! I'll let you explore it for yourselves. Kimberly also explains in detail each of the "Dos and Don'ts" and gives us recommendations for food that is popular in social media right now. Famous tomatoes over here!

It's time to eat, now! Hopefully, you are a fast and talented photographer so your food is still edible by now...

If you'd like to learn more, Domestika always has your back, you can count on us, for real...! Well, we can't help you with your mortgage payments... But if you get into the following links your Instagram will look exquisite!

Don't share your financial situation online and no one will be able to know all the debt you are submerged in:

- What's Food Styling? An article by Lauren du Plessis
- Course on Food Styling and Photography for Instagram
- Food styling and photography books An article by Alessandra Cesarato