food

The Eatery: A Photo App That Aims to Change the Way You Eat

The Eatery is a new "photo sharing" app that's focused more on health than photography. Instead of being judged on aesthetics photographs are rated based on whether people think the food is healthy or not. Your "photo habits" are also crunched and turned into useful infographics and statistics about how and when you eat, giving you helpful information that you can use to change your eating habits.

Polaroid Land Camera 1000 Cake

Spanish blog Duduá organized a fantasy cake contest in Barcelona at the end of April, and found amongst the many creative cakes was this sweet (pun intended) Polaroid Land Camera 1000 cake with an instant photo popping out the bottom.

Mini Fondant Camera Cake Decorations

Jenny from I Love Muffins created these awesome mini fondant lomo cameras for decorating cakes with. If you enjoy making cakes, this could be a fun project when making them for photography-enthusiast friends.

Happy Meal Photographed Weekly Shows No Change After Half Year

New York City photographer Sally Davies purchased a McDonalds Happy Meal on April 10th of this year and left it out uncovered on her coffee table to prove wrong a friend who said it would rot after only a few days. After about two weeks of photographing the food, Davies realized that absolutely nothing was happening, so she began taking pictures once a week. After 180 days Davies shot the 27th photograph, with the meal looking almost identical to when she first bought it. The 1st and 27th photograph taken half a year apart are shown above.

Surreal Landscapes Created with Food

Foodscapes is a series by photographer Carl Warner in which he creates beautiful surreal landscapes using various foods. Warner starts by visualizing and sketching his ideas, which are then built on a large table in his studio with the help of his team. Large blocks of polystyrene are carved and covered with ingredients in order to make the hills seen in his photos, while shallow tanks are used to create lakes, rivers, and seas. Photographs for three different layers (foreground, middle ground, and background) are captured separately and then combined in post.

Beautiful IKEA Baking Recipe Ingredient Photos by Carl Kleiner

IKEA recently created a baking cookbook titled "Hembakat är Bäst" (Homemade is Best) and hired photographer Carl Kleiner to provide images for the recipes. Kleiner shot beautiful photographs of the recipes' ingredients, neatly arranged in geometric patterns by Evelina Bratell.

Faux Food Photos by David Sykes

At first glance (or from far away), these might look like ordinary food photographs. Look a little closer, and you'll see the creativity of photographer David Sykes at work.

Behind the Scenes of a Domino’s Pizza Photo Shoot

It's pretty amazing how much work goes in to commercial food photography, even if it's a delivery pizza. Domino's Pizza has a short video showing the behind-the-scenes action during a pizza photo shoot, complete with food stylists, a pizza screwed to the table, and a hand model. But Domino's new ad movement is all about ditching the food embellishments and promising "natural" photos from now on -- photos of pizzas made by employees and untouched by food artists during the photo shoot. (Though we noticed they didn't promise to go easy on post-processing!)