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A site for food photography and food styling enthusiasts who like to learn more about photography and styling.

Taking great photographs of food is a hard-earned skill—after all, that's why some people are lucky enough to get paid for it. But it's also a lot easier to hone these days, no matter who you are; even a smartphone can yield gorgeous, high-quality images.

BBC Good Food recipe photographer Stuart Ovenden, shares his top tips for photographing food.

If you’ve ever needed to take some food photographs or think this is something you might want to try, here’s a few quick tips for you to get started.

Shooting food probably comes the closest to being a full-blown DIY project. There’s a lot going on– from lighting and composing to styling and shooting, food photography is almost always a production. But regardless of whether you are shooting food for a big publishing client or for a small cookbook of your old family recipes, the process of capturing food at its most flattering remains the same.