Yelp is Looking for a Photographer to Take Tasty Snaps for $10,000
After years of people taking the time to meticulously capture their meals before taking a single bite, Yelp is looking to bring on an official food photographer.
This App Can Calculate The Calories in Your Food Photos
A new app claims it can calculate the calories in any meal from a single photo taken with a smartphone.
Eric Wolfinger: The Delicious Art of Food Photography
Eric Wolfinger wanted to be a chef but became a self-trained food photographer. In the last 15 years, he has captured food for 25 cookbooks, editorial and commercial clients, and traveled the world doing food photography.
Pro Food Photographer Debunks Viral ‘Food Styling Hacks’
Those "food styling hacks" videos that go viral online every few months might not be entirely truthful—in fact, they're often entirely misleading. Which is why professional food photographer Scott Choucino put together this video reacting to/debunking some of the most common hacks he's seen online.
10 Sneaky Tricks Used in Food Photos
The foods you buy in the store and at restaurants are never as tasty as they look in advertising photos, but what many people might not know is that you probably wouldn't enjoy eating the foods seen in those pictures. The reason is because commercial food photographers use all kinds of non-edible products to cleverly make food look delicious in front of a lens. Here's a 9-minute video on 10 of those tricks.
This Company Will Donate 11 Meals for Each Instagram Food Photo You Delete
If you've ever taken a photo of your food for Instagram, now's your chance to delete that photo and do some tangible good for humanity all at the same time!
These Photos Show the Secret Tricks of Food Photography
Food photographers have all kinds of tricks they use to make food -- or what appears to be food -- look appealing on camera. Those tricks are revealed in a new photo project titled Faking It.
Chili’s is the Latest Restaurant to Tweak Its Dishes to Look Better on Instagram
A restaurant and winery in Israel made headlines recently after designing special plates specifically for diners to shoot Instagram photos. It seems restaurants in the US are jumping into this trend as well.
While it's not going so far as to fashion new dishware, Chili's is making changes to its dishes in order to improve how they look in Instagram snapshots.
This Restaurant Made Special Plates for Smartphone Food Photos
If you can't help but snap a smartphone photo before eating a meal, there's a restaurant in Israel that has a new concept designed just for you. The Tel Aviv restaurant Catit and Carmel Winery have teamed up for a new project called Foodography. It's a new meal experience that features newly designed plates that help you shoot quality food photos with your smartphone.
These Food Photos Show Junk Food Arranged to Look Like Fine Dining
One of the hottest food photographers on Instagram in the past couple of months is an anonymous user who goes by the name Chef Jacques LaMerde. It's not the quality of the photos that's attracting attention, but rather the subject matter. Each of the shots shows cheap junk food arranged to look like the artistic plates found at high-end restaurants.
Restaurant Finds that Smartphone Photos Have Doubled Table Times Since 2004
Not exactly a reliable scientific study, a recent Craigslist rant by one "Busy NYC Restaurant" that describes itself as "a popular restaurant for both locals and tourists" has gotten a lot of press time for drawing attention to a troubling intersection of food service and photography.
Posted in the rants and raves section of the online classifieds site, the restaurant supposedly compared security footage from 2004 with that from 2014 and found that taking cell phone photos and other smartphone shenanigans have added nearly an hour to the average table time at the restaurant.
Snapping Instagram Photos of Food May Actually Help Things Taste Better
Annoyed at people who have a habit of snapping a quick food photo before every meal? There might be a scientific explanation for why some of them do so: scientists have found that that rituals such as snapping a quick food pic may actually help make eating more pleasurable for the eater.
Random Things You Can Use to Make Food Photos More Appealing
There's a reason that most of the foods you buy never look like the photos used to advertise them. Food photographers and stylists have all kinds of random tricks up their sleeve for making food items look picture perfect. Here's a list of various household products that are commonly used to make dishes look more appealing. A warning, though: you might lose your appetite.