Food Photography & Lighting: A Commercial Photographer’s Guide to Creating Irresistible Images

Pizza, Stromboli, and Pizza Pulls

I used a hand-held flash and a Lastolite TriGrip diffuser to capture this image.ISO 100, 1/60 sec, f/9, 60mm lens on Canon DSLRFood Stylist: Jimmy Gibson

Assignment Four: In the Brick Oven

If a client wants us to change the tomato on a sandwich, it’s fairly easy to do—but if that tomato is on a pizza, well that’s a different story. Replacing something that has been baked in is not easy. The cheese is probably melted into it, and the sauce is oozing around it, and what about the tomato we are using to replace it? Will it look baked enough? Who knows, it might be easier to make a whole new pizza.

For the food stylist, ...