Still life food. what is food photography

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What is food photography

Food photography is a still life specialization of commercial photography to produce attractive photographs of food for a variety of uses including magazines, cook books, menus, advertisements and packaging. food photographs tends to be composed in a manner where people sit and look and eat the food, laid out on a table setting and shot from an overhead perspective. Tight close up shots on selective focus on object is the trend right now. Moving in close to the food and focusing on the most important elements while everything else goes slightly out of focus helps to draw viewers eyes to the element you most want them to be impressed by. Usually high angles pointing down towards the food work well or at an eaters point of view or you want to show off more of the surrounding decor and props.

Telephoto lenses are used to zoom in tight and background out of focus. A telephoto lens is designed for taking photographs of subjects as moderate to far distances, they are a long focus lens. They are commonly used when photographing sports events, wildlife and in any other circumstances to get close to the subject.

Short Telephoto Lenses 85mm- 135mm- Ideal for shooting portraits and candid shots, quite close to the subjects or objects but don't want to intrude too much


Medium Telephoto Lenses 135mm- 300mm-  popular with sports and action as can get quite close such as standing on the sidelines and used for fast moving subjects

Super Telephoto Lenses 300mm- used for professional wildlife and nature as well as sports.

A short focal length lens like 50mm to shoot in a crisp images look even in low light. Lenses with focal lengths less than 50mm are referred to as wide angles because have a wider angle of view. Lenses with focal lengths greater than 50mm are known as telephotos.