Focus On Food Photography for Bloggers (Focus On Series)

Introduction

I began blogging at the end of 2005 as a way to share my experiences of a career in food. At that time I was an art and advertising director in the food industry and found that many of the things I was doing didn’t quite fit into the day job. What better way to share them than by starting a food blog? That’s how www.mattbites.com was born. It also became an incubator for my burgeoning interest in food photography. At that point I wasn’t a photographer, although I had spent years on photo sets, art directing and producing shoots and working with some amazing photographers. I felt as if all the pieces were there for me to jump into food photography. I just had to do it.

Fast forward to 2012. I’ve left the corporate world and entered ...