Digital Photographer

Shooting Scrumptious Shots

Difficulty level: Intermediate

Time taken: 3 hours

What you’ll need

Camera with interchangeable lens (ideally a 50mm or 85mm lens, but you can use any lens)

Black background (this could be material, paper or card)

Food props (cakes and baking utensils)

Flashlights x 2

Diffuser or softbox

Tripod

Image editing program (we used Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop)

Claire Gillo shares her top tips and tricks for capturing delicious images that look yummy enough to eat

Shooting delicious-looking images is not only a therapeutic and fun thing to do, but you also get to eat the scrumptious goods at the end of the shoot…

Firstly, we must confess that the cakes in our image are

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