I own a digital camera and I take photos of food for this blog. But, that is where the similarity ends between my photos (that you have seen here) and the photos taken in our photo studios for the recipes that we develop in the test kitchens for our newsstand recipe magazines and cookbooks. Our professional food photographers and food stylists were shooting photos last week, for a magazine that will be at newsstands this summer. I went over to the studios to see how they were doing and decided to bring you along with me via my camera. Here is Nancy (the food stylist) preparing a new recipe. Sometimes a friend will ask me if we put marbles in th...
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Food stylists are pretty amazing. I am consistently awed by their talent during photo shoots for our magazines. You wouldn't believe the transformations that take place. You know those “Before” and “After” shots of makeovers in women’s magazines? Styling food is a little like that. When a recipe is first made up in the kitchen, a Kitchen Technician takes a photo of it. It’...
Tags: magazine process, food styling