Food Photography Tips

The Cook's Illustrated website has a short article on tips for taking pictures of food. A few good points are made for amateurs who may want to begin practicing for next year's LTH Calander.

Food Photo Tips

I came across some food photography tips and videos some might find interesting.

Food Photography Tutorials

If the lighting isn't great, color print film is your best option. It's more forgiving of bad lighting conditions than slide film or digital cameras.
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Most consumer cameras do not focus well when held fewer than 3 feet from the subject. If you want good close-ups, you should have a telephoto lens or a camera that is designed for close-ups.

IMHO a few things need to be corrected...
Digital can be corrected by the user with any # of programs (many free)
Color neg film (unless printed by a very professional lab) will be color corrected by a computer chip no better that what is in most digital P&S cameras.

Just about every digital camera has a macro or "flower" setting and that will work very well (see below)

FWIW, cameras are not designed for close-up, lenses are....

here's a digital P&S with the "macro setting"

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here's a tip:

use a window as a backlight
I hung a white sheet over the kitchen sink window and
shot this rack of Lamb shop on a cutting board
over the sink. Used the macro setting on my P&S