Focus On Food Photography for Bloggers (Focus On Series)

Chapter 14:Difficult Foods to Photograph and What You Can Do About It

I recently put up a survey on my blog and through Twitter asking people to share with me the foods they found the most difficult to photograph. Out of the several hundreds of comments and emails I received, the same foods kept appearing over and over again, creating a list of things that even I don’t relish photographing. And what were those things?

Soups. Bland foods. Rice. Casseroles. Stews. Wet things. Soupy, gloopy, sloppy things. Brown things.

First, I feel your pain. Although some foods like a gorgeous bowl of bright Satsuma tangerines are beautiful as is, certain ...