Taking great food photography generally boils down to the right light, a decent camera ($150 point and shoots on macro mode often will do the trick nicely), keeping it simple as far as the props and creative angles and arrangement.

Several food bloggers and chefs have compiled fabulous resources to help other food bloggers and food producers master the art of food photography.

Food Photography Guides

All of the blogs offering the guides below have fabulous photography examples as well.

Food Photography Tips by Heidi Swanson, who takes drool-worthy photos for her 101 Cookbooks blog, offers useful and easy to follow advice.

Vegan Yum Yum – “Food bloggers wear a lot of hats. We have to be chefs, prep cooks, food stylists, photographers, photo editors, dish washers, and writers every time we post a something new.  I’ve been wanting to do a post on food photography for a while; everyone who has ever emailed me about my photos: this is for you.”

My Food Photography Gear compiles advice from David Lebovitz whose recipes, cooking, food adventures and photography are equally admired.

Cookography has detailed tutorials on a variety of food photography, and general photography, techniques such as depth of field and using a flash.

Steamy Kitchen offers lighting tips based on a series of food photography experiments.

Fabulous Food Photography Examples

In addition to beautiful photography from the guides above you’ll find inspired photography from these sources:


Matt Bites’ photography is admired by photographers and non-photographers alike.

Mick Jones Studio‘s photography will inspire you to take your photography to a new level, either yourself or by hiring Mick!

This guide would be remiss for not mentioning that you can find some great delicious photography examples right here on Foodzie, especially in Foodzie’s chocolate category.

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