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In this course, award-winning food and advertising photographer Bill Robbins demonstrates the art and science behind shooting food and drink photographs. The course explores how to enhance a food's color, shape, and texture and how to convey a sense of mood, environment, and story. The course also addresses essential gear, effective prop placement, and lighting techniques, and includes tips for styling various dishes, staging and photographing drinks, shooting on location at a restaurant, and editing the final photos.
Topics include:

    Understanding what makes a food photo appetizing
    Comparing emotional and graphic compositional styles
    Choosing the right camera
    Evaluating lens options
    Choosing light reflectors
    Finding creative backgrounds
    Creating specular and diffuse lighting setups
    Creating different looks for each dish
    Creating a chill effect for drinks
    Shooting on location at a restaurant
    Editing photos