This post is more for my benefit – to look back on and laugh – than it is to educate & inspire you all.? We’ve been doing a LOT of learning & shooting on food lately.? I posted the brownies, we shot some shorter shoots (cupcakes too!) and we are doing another on Saturday (learning pasta I guess!).? I just wanted to get a few things out.

1) I bought two food photo books: Digital Food Photography by Lou Manna and Food Styling for Photographers by Linda Bellingham and Jean Ann Bybee.? Both seem really great!? It’s fun to learn some of the craziness that goes into great food photography.? I would like to get Working the Plate by Christoper Styler and David Lazarus as well as a fun, illustrated cookbook.

2) Blogs & sites are very helpful – as well as styling stores.? Some of my faves are:

StillLifeWith

Foodesigns

The Styling Store

3) Food is tempermental.? The brownie dried out, the ice cream melted and the whipped cream fell FAST.

4) Planning a shoot is both more work and less.? More because we have to come up with ALL the ideas – the model won’t move into a flattering position for us by default.? Less because the model always attends the shoot, doesn’t require emails back at any point, doesn’t cancel the day before, and doesn’t require a lot of attention between shoots.

5) There are some AMAZING food photographers.? Competition will be fierce!

These are just some of my initial thoughts on food.? I have spent a few weeks doing almost nothing but learning and looking.? There’s a LOT to learn.