Indoor Session: Practicing Food Photography

Nowadays, due to hot weather with unpredictable monsoon rains, it's quite inconvenient to go out and practice to improve our photo-shooting skills. But, it's good to know that there are lots of photography expertise that someone like me may practice even indoors and while in the comfort of our home. Some may practice studio modelling photography, high-speed photography, product photography or food photography. Among the four mentioned photography practices, the least or "cheapest" equipment used to practice, for me, is the Food Photography.

As I researched to get guides and tips in doing food photography, the most common tip I get is, look for a very good source of light. The suggested light source are natural daylight that passes through windows or doors or  use studio strobes with soft-box to mimic daylight although this means you need these equipment that are quite costly. Well, if I will have to choose between free and cheap, I would certainly pick the free... anyway, we can always work-around the free option, but good thing in food photography, picking the free light source option, the daylight, is the best. Basically, since daylight is the best light source, as long as you can mimic the light intensity and white balance setting for daylight using other artificial light and applying some reflectors, these will work fine.

By the way, Food photography works perfectly with food styling. Food styling is like "make-up enhancement" done to make the food looks very appetizing. 

Here are the photos resulting from different light sources. Some photo shoot were prepared while some are just spontaneous.

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And finally, the best thing on food photography session is the AFTER photoshoot... EATING TIME!!!