Lindsay and Bjork from Pinch of Yum created an ebook called Tasty Food Photography.
It’s been such a hit that they expanded it and have recently relaunched it.
For anyone who needs help, guidance, advice, tutorials, practical, and real-life suggestions for improving your food photography, it’s such a great resource.
That’s pretty much everyone, right? Myself included.
I have a Photography page on my site, which includes what camera and lenses I use, my general approach to food photography, as well as links to resources, books, recommendations, and so forth.
Inside Tasty Food Photography, here’s what you’ll find:
There’s Technical Tips, like understanding your camera and what all those dials do, and what happens when you turn a dial a certain direction.
Suggestions about Composition
Real life Editing examples that help illustrate that white balance and brightness are not the same thing. Nor are exposure and brightness.
When I was first learning about photography, it all blurred together, and I wish I would have had an ebook like this to reference.
Aside from the book, Lindsay recently posted, Ten Household Items That Can Improve Your Food Photography, and it’s one of my favorite posts she’s ever written.
It’s extremely informative, practical, nothing hard to find or expensive. I love that she and Bjork are sensitive to those things.
If you want to buy Tasty Food Photography, Lindsay and Bjork have extended a coupon for 25% off the normal price of $19. So the ebook will be less that $15 bucks. What a deal.
Enter code ac25 at checkout. Coupon expires 8/2/13.
Using Rafflecopter, enter to win a copy of the ebook by completing the first three tasks and any optional ways you’d like to enter.
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P.S. For the Peanut Butter fans, check out my cookbook, Peanut Butter Comfort
I would like to learn more about food photography, just for fun for now.
I struggle with getting the perfect lighting.
My interest in Photography has heightened because of Instagram (@beamblossom). One of the struggles I have is capturing photos at night. Hopefully this book will help me with that!
Lighting is my biggest challenge, I’d love to improve that so most of my photos of food will no longer have the nasty dark shadow on them. and I’d like to win this book because there’s a nice section on exposure and lighting. Thank you for the giveaway!
this would be great for my daughter who is a photographer.
This would be great to have. I actually have a question: have you posted anywhere on your blog how to substitute honey for sugar in baked goods? Thanks!
You can’t generally substitute a liquid sweetener for a dry one; and if you can, it’s not universal. No hard and fast rules and would need to be case by case.
And the thing I need to work on most is actually all of my photographic skills.
I am still a beginner when it comes to photography, so even the tidbits you shared above were great and very informative, I’d be happy to learn more! Thank you!
I have a problem with lighting and white balance
I would love to learn more about aperture, shutter speed,etc. Once I take my camera off ‘auto’, I’m pretty much lost!
I struggling the most with what type of camera to use and the settings, Grrr!
Having extra help with edited would be so helpful for me too!
Winning this book could answer and help me with a lot of frustrating moments when it’s just me, my camera and a plated slice of Red raspberry pie! I find that I struggle with red too! Please help!
All of our pix of food look the same. Take them in the same bowls on the same table. Boring!
I don’t know much about photography at all, but I really want to start a blog of my own so this would be so helpful!
I am new at food photography, so I struggle with knowing how to set everything up and what elements (i.e. lighting) offer the best photo capturing. I would like to learn how to really capture the food, such as the juices and delicate textures that make your mouth water.
I think lighting is my biggest problem and understanding how to properly adjust the settings. Now , I just wing it and take my chances.
I JUST got a camera and plan to expand my blog to include recipes so I need help in every area!
Thanks for a chance at the giveaway!
I need help with lighting and angels.