Print Magazine's Food Photography Feature

In addition to my involvement with EPIC this fall, I was asked to join a class called Food and Prop Styling 101 with Beth Reiners.

Print Magazine's Food Photography Feature

For over 18 years, Beth Reiners has been doing what she loves most: propping and styling beautiful tabletop food sets. Her wonderfully creative job is to find, rent, purchase, and execute the tabletop props that surround the products featured in print advertisements.

I got my latest issues of print magazine, cleverly titled, The Rare & Well Done, which features trends in food photograph. Fate I tell you? Yes!

One of my favorite trends is the move from studio perfect photography to a photo journalist approach. Photographers and food stylist are looking at the way meals are eaten and shared, creating an event around food, rather than using tweezers, gloves and brushes to create the perfect brisket. Cliff Kuang, the author, says that Magazines are more likely to shoot a backyard BBQ, rich in color, emotion and of course food, than a “morsel of foie gras in a cloud of radish foam.”

More gorgeous photography and how-to tips on food styling and propping to come over the next few weeks.

Images courtesy of Print Magazine