Food Photography for Beginners

ONLINE COURSE

About the Course

Food photography market is huge. It’s a big niche in the industry with a lot of opportunities. With this course, you can start to earn money with very little investment in the equipment.

Restaurants and cafes always need good quality visual content for ads, menus, banners and so on. You can enter this market really easily with minimal efforts.

Learn to avoid the many mistakes photographers make when running their business – stay busy doing things right.

Highlights of this course:

Following provided strategies, tips, and techniques on this course, you’ll know how to properly deliver an outstanding result for your client.

How to use a minimal equipment to get job done

Only 3 speedlites, a few foam-core boards, few mini-stands, camera and a lens is all you need to start taking great images of your favorite food

Easy to follow realtime photography scenarios

Learn how to work with different types of food to make it juicy and create the most interesting images for each dish you shoot

Learn how to use DIY solutions to stay on a budget and make more profit

We use DIY solutions on every shot in this course

Ask questions, submit your work for the review You can ask questions and receive answers from our instructors, there are forum and Q&A thread under every lesson in this course

COURSE CURRICULUM

Course includes 4 hours of instruction in 16 video lessons

Introduction. Gear Overview

A photographer's ability to achieve his or her goals has always been limited by the gear they use. With this video, you'll discover how to use your gear more effectively and simply.

Setting Up a Scene for a Crab Plate

Using a crab plate as a prop for photography, this video shows you how to set up the scene.

Macro Shot of a Spoon

Macro photography involves taking close-up photographs. Using tuna tartare and caviar, Alex will demonstrate how to take a macro shot of a spoon.

Rolls on a Black Plate

As we go through this video, we will learn how to capture food photography on a black plate, as well as a few tips for improving the quality of our products.

Top Down Shot

The top down shot is a great way to photograph food. Here is Alex showing you how to take one.

Styling Tips & Tricks

In this video, we're going to see some styling tips and tricks from Alex..

45° Angle Degree Shots

In photography, the use of angles defines voice, presence, and visual purpose. Watch Alex show you how to take photos at a 45° angle.

Dessert

In this video, we will show you how to style a photo of dessert and how to make it look the way you want it.

How to Shoot Exotic Plates. Part 1

The purpose of this video is to show you how to capture food photography of exotic plates.

How to Shoot Exotic Plates. Part 2

Continuing from Part 1, we will figure out how to shoot a dish with more texture and layers.

Shooting Pasta on a Black Background

Photographers can play with contrast and detail when photographing against black backgrounds. In this video, Alex will demonstrate how to use a black background to shoot food photography.

Bonus: How to Shoot Cakes. Part 1

Want to learn how to shoot cake photography? In this video, Alex will be teaching you on how to shoot cakes.

Bonus: How to Shoot Cakes. Part 2

Continuation of Part 1. In this video, you will learn how to emphasize the details on your cake.

Post-production. Part 1

Let's have a look at how to retouch a food photography crab plate set in this video.

Post-production. Part 2

Let’s have a look at how to retouch a food photography dessert set in this video.

Post-production. Part 3

Let's have a look at how to retouch a food photography cake set in this video.

IMAGES YOU'LL BE ABLE TO MAKE YOURSELF

Alex will teach you how to take images like this in this course

ABOUT THE COURSE’S

Instructor

Founder of Photigy

Alex Koloskov

He is “one of the most recognized product photographers in the world˝ and the founder of the Photigy school of photography.

Before starting to teach, Alex ran a successful commercial studio photography business for many years. His clients included companies like WalMart, Siemens, Home Depot, Endochoice, and many other well-known brands.

In 2012, Alex with his wife Genia Larionova founded Photigy, the world’s best online school for product photographers. Since then they have helped thousands of photographers to build successful commercial studio photography businesses.

Alex is one of the worlds best commercial advertising photographers, co-founder and teacher at Photigy.com, Instructor at KelbyOne.com and Udemy.com

He is also the man behind Photigy’s most popular courses and tireless idea generator.

Portfolio: www.koloskov.com

TYPE

Online Video Course

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