PLEASE SEE MY BEST EQUIPMENT PAGE INSTEAD OF THIS POST. This post became so popular I had to make it a page that is updated often. I get asked two questions all the time. First one: What camera and lens do I need to shoot food? Second one: What camera and equipment do you…
Camera modes – what do they mean? AV, TV, P, etc.
There’s many food bloggers out there who always shoot in one of the “automatic” camera modes. I get told this in class all the time. I’m going to break down each of the modes here so you can understand what the camera is doing in each one. Different cameras might not have all these modes…
Why You Might Need To Adjust Your Camera’s LCD and How
To get the right exposure you have to learn to interpret your camera’s LCD. Your camera’s LCD is not going to look exactly like your monitor when viewing the same image. In fact some camera LCD’s are shockingly different from what your digital file will look like. The image above is of the set of…
A Discussion on Nikon Cameras
To continue our camera discussion we are going to talk about Nikon cameras today. I’ll discuss the ones that I think should be considered for shooting food with two scenarios in mind – a food set up on a table and then possibly shooting an action shot with a chef in the kitchen. This image…
A Discussion on Canon Cameras
So last week I posted on Facebook the question – What would you like to learn about? We had several responses and emails. Several folks wanted to know more about DSLR cameras. So I did some research on some of the hot DSLR cameras out there. I will break this down into two posts, Canon…
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