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Food Styling for Photographers: A Guide to Creating Your Own Appetizing Art [Paperback]

Linda Bellingham , Jean Ann Bybee
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April 9, 2008 0240810066 978-0240810065 1

"You eat with your eyes first," and no one turns a photograph of food into a culinary masterpiece like a food stylist. Food Styling for Photographers is the next best thing to having renowned food stylist Linda Bellingham by your side. Linda has worked with clients Baskin Robbins Ice Cream, McDonald's, Tyson Foods, FritoLay, and many, many more. Professional photographer Jean Ann Bybee has worked with Harry & David, Dominos, Sara Lee, Seven-Up Company, and more. Jean Ann provides a seasoned photographer's point of view with helpful tips throughout.

If you are hungry for unique photo assignments and want to expand your portfolio, this guide provides the well-kept secrets of food styling techniques that can make your photos good enough to eat.

Each chapter covers step-by-step instructions with mouth-watering photographs illustrating techniques for the creation of hero products that photographers at any level can whip up.

Bon Appétit!

Check out a new podcast interview with the authors about the upcoming second volume in this series, More Food Styling for Photographers!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nik-radio/id365360524


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"You eat with your eyes first,” and no one turns a photograph of food into a culinary masterpiece like a food stylist. Food Styling for Photographers is the next best thing to having renowned food stylist Linda Bellingham by your side. Linda has worked with clients Baskin Robbins Ice Cream, McDonald's, Tyson Foods, FritoLay, and many, many more. Professional photographer Jean Ann Bybee has worked with Harry & David, Dominos, Sara Lee, Seven-Up Company, and more. Jean Ann provides a seasoned photographer's point of view with helpful tips throughout.

If you are hungry for unique photo assignments and want to expand your portfolio, this guide provides the well-kept secrets of food styling techniques that can make your photos good enough to eat. Tips include:

* Supply lists
* Step-by-step photo illustrations
* Discussions about the rationale for using real versus fake foods
* Settings and props
* Handling and care of the hero before it goes on set
* On-set techniques for preserving the hero
* Lighting discussions of the hero shots

Each chapter covers step-by-step instructions with mouth-watering photographs illustrating techniques for the creation of hero products that photographers at any level can whip up.

Bon Appétit!

Food stylist Linda Bellingham's flair for all things artistic and her passion for the culinary arts help her transform food for photography in clever and tantalizing ways. Linda has an extensive list of clients and her work has been featured in print and television advertising as well as food packaging. Linda resides in Oregon where she styles for select clients, conducts seminars on food styling, and is working on another book. She can be found at her website www.foodstyling.us.

Photographer Jean Ann Bybee has been creating gorgeous images for more than 20 years. As a Dallas-based commercial photographer, she has shot all over the world-everything from high fashion for Neiman Marcus to Mexican wrestlers to cheesecakes-making every shot a masterpiece in its own way. In this book, she shows us why her approach of shooting every inanimate object like it is "a beautiful woman” is especially wonderful when the subject matter is food.

About the Author

Food stylist Linda Bellingham's flair for all things artistic and her passion for the culinary arts help her transform food for photography in clever and tantalizing ways. Linda has an extensive list of clients and her work has been featured in print and television advertising as well as food packaging. Linda resides in Oregon where she styles for select clients, conducts seminars on food styling, and is working on another book. She can be found at her website www.foodstyling.us.
Photographer Jean Ann Bybee has been creating gorgeous images for more than 20 years. As a Dallas-based commercial photographer she has shot all over the world, everything from fashion for Neiman Marcus to Mexican wrestlers for Miller Lite, making every image a masterpiece in it's own way. In this book, she shows us why her approach of shooting an inanimate object like its a "beautiful woman” is wonderful when the subject is food. Her expertise in mixing natural light and strobe is amazing. She can be reached at www.bybeephoto.com.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Focal Press; 1 edition (April 9, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0240810066
  • ISBN-13: 978-0240810065
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.6 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #265,876 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.5 out of 5 stars
This was a very easy read. Trudy Williams  |  9 reviewers made a similar statement
Finally, there is a Food Styling book for Photographers. Sabrina Huang  |  4 reviewers made a similar statement
It's a perfect book for beginners. Brenda  |  4 reviewers made a similar statement
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars If you are interested in food photography May 19, 2008
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Finally, there is a Food Styling book for Photographers. I took 2 food styling classes in LA before - the purpose was to understand how food was prepared for the camera and also to see how food photographers setup their lights. I love food photography and read many popular food blogs with their work. So when I know this Food Styling for Photographers came out, I can't wait to order a copy and I was very happy after flipping through the book.

This book gives you many tricks of the trade and notes from photographers with lots of setup photos, both food setup and camera/lighting setup. The printing quality and the page layout are very good - the font size is easy to read, the color pictures are clear, clean and colorful. They gives you details on how to buy the food, how to prepare the food, how to assemble the food, how to plate the food, how to decorate the food, etc. They gives you before, during and final photos.

I also own Digital Food Photography by Lou Manna and Working with Plate by Christopher Styler and David Lazarus. In my opinion, if you are interested in food photography, buy Food Styling for Photographyers and Digital Food Photography and you are good to go. Highly recommend these two books.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent place to start May 14, 2008
Format:Paperback
This book is an excellent way to get started in food photography. It has chapters dedicated to meats, drinks, ice cream, garnishings, and more.

Each with a shopping list of what was used for the featured photo (or photos) for that particular chapter and tips for shopping for food photography in general which I found very interesting.

It does leave out something which would be nice to have, such as how to prepare beer for photograpy but, they mention this would require a full book dedicated to it which I think is fair, I wouldn't expect someone to write a book on every item of food out there.

Bottom line: A very buy. Well worth the price.
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars food styling book 411 May 1, 2008
Format:Paperback
My status as a photographer is almost professional, since for the moment i work part-time however I LOVE food photography wich is why I decided to buy this book. I just got it 2 days ago and for what I've read its a must have book. (Also very much recomended: Digital Food Photography by Lou Manna) Just to give u an idea. These r the chapter titles: 1)Intro to Food Styling. This includes simple game rules, shopping tips, planing ahead, list of supplies often used and a how to versions on how to assemble your own food styling kit. 2)Sets and Settings. This includes tips for choosing sets and surfaces for food photography, table setting tips, working fabriks on set, and tips on how to make your image POP. 3)Chilling fact on cold beverages. This includes beverage choises, frosted glass techniques, making a frozen margarita, making and placing bubbles, and more. 4)Making a Salad for the camera. This includes salad ingredient selection shopping and handling tecniques, supporting techniques, fruit salads, how to dress a salad for photography, and more.5) Pasta and Sauces. This includes perfect pasta for camera, sauces and vegetables for camera, building your pasta food additions to pasta...6) Burgers, Sandwiches, and BEYOOOOOOND. This includes prepping tips for burgers sandwiches and patties, shopping tips building tips, on the set tips, bulding a half or cut sandwich for photography.7) Meeting meat..8)veggie perfect 9) ice cream for hot light (very interesting) 10) Desserts. 11) Breakfast for the camera 12) Garnishing basics. Like i said this is to give u an idea of what u will be purchasing. Happy buying and break leg!!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
This book is so well written. I am a food photographer and I wanted a book that could offer me a perspective as well as some basic 'know-hows' about food styling. Read more
Published 1 month ago by photo_tina
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful
It's a perfect book for beginners. It guide you step by step and explain the basics you should know to have great pictures.
Published 2 months ago by Brenda
5.0 out of 5 stars I learned a lot from this book
I have spent a lot of time reading and putting some of the ideas included in this book into practice. The end photographs in the book are beautiful. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Richard F. Daley
4.0 out of 5 stars Very technical food styling
I really enjoyed this book. The author knows her stuff and could not have been any more detail in the information presented. Read more
Published 13 months ago by JEG
2.0 out of 5 stars For wannabe stylists, not photographers
This is just any other book on how to be a food stylist. It's not the tips, shortcuts, workarounds, etc. specifically for photographers that the title misrepresents.
Published 16 months ago by Michael Burke
5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE this Book
A wonderful book, full of techniques, ideas, but most of all the principles behind making better food photographs. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Shaun of the Dead
5.0 out of 5 stars Best book ever bought
This book is very well made. Simple, clear, direct to the point and accompany with photos and photographer tricks. Read more
Published 22 months ago by martinszabodotcom
5.0 out of 5 stars very good book
Very good book with details and technical how to, highly recomment it.

The only down side would be that many items are not edible, something that currently is not very... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Piotr Kozikowski
4.0 out of 5 stars Useful Start for Photographers
This book is titled aptly! It is food styling information for a photographer, as opposed for food styling for food stylists. Read more
Published on April 16, 2011 by PT
2.0 out of 5 stars Not about styling food
If you want to understand why McDonald's menus look so (comparatively) good, this is a great book for you. If you plan to photograph *actual* food, it's a waste of money. Read more
Published on January 24, 2011 by S. Coulter
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