My theory on food photography is very simple - a few things need to be in play and working together to have a good food or beverage photograph: beautiful food and styling, beautiful light & camera craft, props and set working together in a supporting role and finally appropriate post processing. Piece of cake?
Each of the above fundamental elements takes experience and aesthetics to achieve consistently, day to day. Sure anyone with a camera and a nice looking plate of food can stumble into a great food shot...the stars align and viola!, great shot.
Perfection is not part of the equation when it comes to the food and styling, or better put, perfection is found in the imperfections, the natural quality of food with some crumbs or here in the coffee cup shot where the crema and cup is not perfect. It is beyond easy to remove imperfections these days, with PS it is very easy to make a shot too "cleaned up". Showing the imperfections conveys a reality to the photograph, life is not perfect. Speaking of crumbs, here is Birdbath's Maple + Bacon scone which I used as the subject of my first blog post.. this is what they look like before being reduced to a few crumbs.
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