Food photography with available Light & Flashes

Language: German

Food photography workshop: food styling, equipment & tips

Everything you need to know about food photography: after this four-hour video workshop, you'll be creating exquisite food photos. Learn from Tobias Gawrisch how to arrange decorations and food in front of and on the background for perfect food styling, how to build simple reflectors and diffusers yourself, how to set up your camera and post-process your shots. There are also tips on equipment and procedures.

Workshop with over 4 hours of video training on professional food photography
Two workflows: from setup to post-processing, under available light and with flash
Equipment tips: What do you need? How do you use it? - The approach and know-how of a professional!
For practical learning and understanding of the content: including raw and Photoshop files
Create food photos with spice, e.g. for restaurants, cafés, hotels, bars, blogs and cookbooks

Food photos at their very best! Here's the recipe: create appetizing scenes under available light or using flashes. Get two professional workflows in one workshop.

Details

Usable with:
content: 4 h Video training
Licence: private and commercial Rights of use
Bonus: including working material

Examples of use

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Take a food photo using flash: follow your trainer's practical tips!

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Fascinating food photos can also be taken without a flash: What to look out for.

Available Light

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Food photography with available light and flashes - 1.1 Introduction

Here you will receive a summary of the topics you will encounter during the training and a brief introduction to accessories. You will also find out what you can do if you don't have a remote shutter release to hand.

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Food photography with available light and flashes - 1.2 Getting inspired: using Pinterest mood boards to find ideas

In this chapter, I will show you how to develop an initial image idea using the Pinterest platform and how to summarize your inspirations in a mood board. Mood boards serve as a collection of ideas for your future picture so that you always have a direction for the look of the finished picture in mind.

Food photography with available light and flashes - 1.3 Preparations: Location, background, background & perspective

In this chapter, I'll show you the basic structure of a simple food photo setup. We'll talk about the right backgrounds and backdrops and decide on a suitable perspective for our picture.

Food photography with available light and flashes - 1.4 Image composition: Building up composition & image elements

In this chapter, we build up our picture completely. We use various decorative elements and ingredients to optimize our composition and create an atmospheric image.

Food photography with available light and flashes - 1.5 Lighting: optimizing light with reflectors & shading

In this chapter, we use small and large reflectors, diffusers and shading devices to optimize the lighting in our picture. I will also show you how you can easily make your own, very effective reflectors.

Food photography with available light and flashes - 1.6 Final setup: Overview of the entire setup

In this chapter, I'll show you an overview of the entire setup. You'll see how little space we need for the image and what influence the different light shapers have on the image.

Food photography with available light and flashes - 1.7 Post-processing: Image editing in Lightroom & Photoshop

In the penultimate chapter of this section, I'll show you how to post-process your image using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop to give it the finishing touches.

Food photography with available light and flashes - 1.8 Final words

Final words on food photography with available light.

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Food photography with available light and flashes - 2.1 Introduction

I'll explain the basic equipment we'll be using to take the pictures in this video training. You'll get an impression of the flashes, light shapers and other equipment used.

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Food photography with available light and flashes - 2.2 Getting inspired: using Pinterest mood boards to find ideas

Food photography with available light and flashes - 2.2 Inspiration: using Pinterest mood boards to find ideas

In this video, I'll show you how you can use Pinterest to develop an initial image idea and summarize your inspirations in a mood board. Mood boards serve as a collection of ideas for your future picture so that you always have a direction for the look of the finished picture in mind.

Food photography with available light and flashes - 2.3 Preparations: Location, background, background & perspective

Food photography with available light and flashes - 2.3 Location, background, background & perspective

In this chapter, I'll show you the basic structure for our food photo and explain the most important basics about backgrounds and typical perspectives in food photography. You'll also learn how I use the live view on the camera to optimize the composition of the image.

Food photography with available light and flashes - 2.4 Light: Setting up and adjusting the light setup

In this chapter, you will learn how to set up your main light and which angle is ideal for food photography. The main light is the first and most important component in your lighting setup and should always be set up first.

Food photography with available light and flashes - 2.5 Reflectors: optimization & more complex lighting

Here I show you how you can optimize the light setup without additional flashes. I use reflectors and shading to direct the light and brighten up the critical shadow areas in the picture. And the best thing is: you can easily make your own reflectors and shading devices from standard craft film and photo cardboard!

Food photography with available light and flashes - 2.6 Table decoration: completing the composition

In this chapter, we return to our actual picture and decorate the table and the main objects according to our picture idea. We pay attention to authenticity and pleasant lines in the picture. Finally comes the main component of our picture. And we have to hurry so that the fresh ingredients don't collapse.

Food photography with available light and flashes - 2.7 Post-processing: Image editing in Lightroom & Photoshop

Food photography with available light and flashes - 2.7 Image editing in Lightroom & Photoshop

In the penultimate chapter of this section, I'll show you how to post-process your image using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop to give it the finishing touches. I will show you various techniques for optimizing the exposure, colors and sharpness of the image.

Food photography with available light and flashes - 2.8 Final words

Final words on food photography with flash.

Details of the content

Food photography: How to take photos with perfect food styling!
In focus: raspberries, yogurt or nuts. The light: one available light and one flash. Your learning experience: two workflows in which you look over the shoulder of professional photographer Tobias Gawrisch, from food styling and arranging the scene to post-processing the images - this is how food photography and product photography can pay off for you too!
Restaurants, cafés, hotels, bars, their websites, blogs, menus, flyers and posters as well as baking and cookery books will thank you - because your pictures will add spice to the stale food photo soup.
Stand out and offer potential or existing customers images that first whet their appetite and then make them hungry for more. In the following introductory video you will get to know your trainer, further down you will discover the photos that you will edit yourself during the course.

From food styling to photo editing - two workflows

The four-hour workshop with 16 lessons is divided into two sections: The first involves taking a photo in daylight, the second using flash . In both cases, Tobias Gawrisch discusses all aspects of food photography, from setting up the scene and setting up the technology, to taking the photo and making the appropriate settings, to post-processing the raw image using Lightroom and Photoshop.

Tips on equipment

You don't need a photo studio for this. Instead, your trainer will explain to you how to achieve your goal of an atmospherically dense still life with the simplest of means, little space and minimal flash equipment. You will receive instructions and explanations on the equipment, all the necessary aids such as remote triggers, tripods and light shapers and can easily recreate the reflectors and diffusers used with craft film and tracing paper. This way, you can actually make more out of less.

A practical workshop for the how, what and why

It is particularly important during the explanations that you learn from the actual practice of the professional. Instead of a simple "do it this way", Tobias Gawrisch explains his approach and gives numerous tips. Background, backdrop, decoration, focus, the right perspective, the right image section ... Each individual step comes with a how, what and, above all, why.

This is what you will learn in the food photography workshop: food styling, equipment & tips

Using specific examples, you will learn how to create convincing food scenes, once with available light, i.e. daylight, and once using flash. You will follow a professional photographer from setup to post-processing. You will be able to follow the process using the work files provided. After the course, you will be able to apply the practical tips and tricks to your own food or advertising photography. Convince your customers with images that stand out from the crowd and open up a wide range of applications for your photography: blogs, menus, cookbooks ...