How to enter a food photography contest: Complete guide
Capture Culinary Brilliance: Your Complete Guide to the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Contest The Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year competition is a prestigious platform for food photographers worldwide. Whether you’re a seasoned professional photographer or a passionate amateur, showcasing your work alongside talented peers can be an enriching and career-defining […]
How to photograph a cookbook: tips and tricks
Welcome to Valeria Food Photography, where we turn culinary visions into visual masterpieces! If you’re a cookbook author, food blogger or publisher in Australia seeking the perfect lens to showcase your culinary creations, you’ve come to the right place. In this blog post, we’ll share my best tips on photographing a cookbook, ensuring your recipes […]
Citrus waffles
About the Project The client wanted to photograph their butter, so we created a waffle recipe very butter decadent and used the citrus topping to emulate their brand colours. We wanted to make PEOPLE’S MOUTHS water as soon as we POURED the honey to FINISH the FLAVOUR profile with all the grapefruit, oranges and mandarines. […]
Grapefruit Drink
About the Project I love working with drink photography, this time, we made a Grapefruit and rosemary drink. We took a sequence of photos pouring the final soda to make a immersive gif. This image was shot in my Studio in Adelaide, and we did the food styling. The image was TAKEN with […]
Raw T-bone photoshoot
About the Project When I was commissioned to take a picture of raw meat, I must admit I was confused hot wo approach the subject to make it really appealing to the client eye. But you have to find the correct light and mastering the editing you can approach that exact colour of raw and […]
Orange and Rosemary Drink Photoshoot
About the Project drink photography is one of the hardest thing, because you have to achieve the right light to avoid any harsh highlight or reflect on the glassware. another key element in drink photography is to nail the garnishes to make the drink pop and tell a little about the story of the drink, […]
Sigma Macro Lens (Nikon) for food photography review
I recently bought a Sigma Macro Lens for my full-frame camera. I bought the Sigma 105 mm macro lens because I wanted that cropped and more accurate eye look. With macro lenses, you say goodbye to distorted images, which is helpful when taking drink and food photos. You have an image 1:1 magnification ratio. For […]
Incorporating a human touch to a produce shoot
About the Project I love how a human touch could elevate a produce photoshoot. You can see how beautiful the macro image of the grapes is, you can see the texture and water drops in it But you can see more context and add some interest by adding a human hand or the whole body, […]