dubai food photography

[Jane Maria]

I was handed the chance with a client of mine to make use of a photographer who specialize in photographing food. Initially I believed the couple of days we had planned together would suffer for excitement. I was wrong when I found myself fascinated by how hard it's to make food look adequate to want a customer to buy it and how much difference an excellent photograph can name in providing mouth watering spectacle dubai food photography.

My visit was to Cooke Studio, managed by commercial photographer Colin Cooke, who specializes in food photography. Interested parties will get a series of commercial, editorial, and still life portfolios on the site for an over-all sample of the studio's work. It really takes talent to become a commercial photographer, but a lot more to make food photography look so good. Cooke Studio has had such high profile clients like Häagen-Daas, Dove, Healthy Choice, Ecco Domani, Dannon, and Renaissance.

As a professional photographer, Colin Cooke has had to utilize the typical tools of the trade - lighting, angles, real and digital enhancements that each commercial photographer needs to know. Food photography is significantly like shooting a still life, except a professional photographer has two goals: the very first is to make each final product a work of art. The second is to sell the item. For food photography, which means that a professional photographer must make the food look as edible and mouth-watering as possible. Obviously, in this instance, food photography is distinctive from other types of commercial photography because its subjects often go bad. Consequently, a professional food photographer must either have a great picture quickly or have many of the commercial items on hand. Or perhaps a professional food photographer can delve into his bag of tricks.

One of many tricks within food photography, besides the usual photography tools, includes using a brush to spread vegetable oil or glycerin on the commercial item to create shine. Some commercial photographers in the food photography industry make steam come off meals that are allowed to be hot - one of the methods would be to warm wet cotton balls in the microwave and put the steaming cotton balls behind the bowl or plate. Sometimes photographed ice cream is not ice cream at all, but colored mashed potatoes to give it that just-scooped look that won't melt. Rather than whipped cream, shaving cream is used. For any sort of liquid shot, like pouring liquid into ripples, some commercial photographers will use a thicker substance that pours more slowly so that it can be photographed more easily. Meat in food photos are generally partially cooked to be able to prevent them from becoming dry and shrinking - instead, they stay plump. PVA often replaces milk in a go of cereal because soggy cereal does not look appetizing. The ice you see in food advertising are generally plastic with a bit of water sprayed on for that sheen. Even fruit gets the star treatment - some food photographers enhance a strawberry's color with lipstick.

All very interesting approaches to avoid the pitfalls of food photography or even to boost the photography experience. In the end, the subterfuge yields tasty results.

Colin Cooke at Cooke Studio is prepared for almost any food photography challenge, whether it's M&Ms or shrimp or forks rolled in a ball, chocolate literally dripping from a chocolate bar, glistening fruits and vegetables, a glass of wine or two, or freshly scooped ice cream.

Chuck R Stewart recently spent time with a professional photography expert whose section of expertise is that of a food photographer dubai food photography.