Specialization in Food Photography and Styling

Course summary

• U1: Inspiration

  • Introduction

  • Influences | Ernesto López (Alkimia)

  • Influences | Marcela Lovegrove

  • Influences | Jimena Agois Sánchez

  • Influences | Dácil Fernández

  • Influences | Karla Acosta

  • It's not how creative you are, but how well you keep your references | Espacio Crudo

• U2: Food Photography Basic Techniques

  • Introduction to photographic production

  • Photo brief

  • Camera and lenses

  • Artificial lighting: studio flash

  • Lighting angles and modifiers

  • Scenarios

  • Our set

  • Light measurement

  • Light quality

  • Shooting

  • Style Change

  • System settings

  • Revealed

  • Retouch

  • File output

• U3: Food Styling for Beginners: Visually Enhance Flavors

  • What is Food Styling?

  • Basic work kit

  • Project needs

  • Tips for photographing food

  • Show off food on camera

  • Assembling of the photos

  • Budgets

  • Preproduction

  • Mood Board

  • Pasta with natural light 1

  • Pasta with natural light 2

  • Fash pasta

  • Cookies with natural light

  • Flash cookies

  • Final photos

• U4: Food Photography: Find Your Artistic Taste

  • Basic equipment

  • Natural light

  • Simple artificial light

  • The double artificial light

  • The composition

  • The angles

  • Food styling

  • Mood board and shots

  • Plate assembly, food styling and first photo

  • Plate assembly, food styling and second photo

  • Plate assembly, food styling and third photo

  • Edit and export photos

• U5: Dark Mood Photography for Culinary Projects

  • What is Dark Mood photography

  • Natural light: understand it to master it

  • Color in food photography

  • Frame orientation, camera angles, and composition

  • The creative process

  • Storytelling: let's tell a story

  • How to visualize your ideas

  • Photo props, props and backgrounds

  • Organization on set

  • Composing our photo: frontal plane 1

  • Composing our photo: frontal shot 2

  • Composing our photo: zenith plane

  • The Dark Mood style in Lightroom editing

  • Editing apps on your mobile phone

  • A homogeneous and impressive feed on Instagram

• U6: Introduction to Commercial Food Photography

  • Types of Photography: Specialization

  • Types of Photographers: Soloists and with Orchestra

  • Telling a Story

  • The Laws of Gestalt

  • Funds

  • The Props

  • The Properties of Light

  • Studio Lights

  • Camera and Optics

  • Other Accessories

  • First Photo: Overhead Shot 1

  • First Photo: Overhead Shot 2

  • Second Photo: 45º

  • Developed with Lightroom 1

  • Developed with Lightroom 2

  • Revealed with Capture One 1

  • Revealed with Capture One 2

• U7: Creating Culinary Photo Series

  • Mom, where do the ideas come from?

  • How do we count it?

  • Moodboard

  • Paint them!

  • What do you need for the photos?

  • 1 to 3. Base lighting scheme

  • Make it real. Art direction

  • The important thing is the outside

  • 6:00 am. Photo 1

  • 8:00 am. Photo 2

  • 10:00 am Photo 3

  • Lettering and painting

  • 500 copies required

• Final project

  • Specialization in Gastronomic Photography and Food Styling