The Complete Guide to Food Photography from Rocky Nook is a visually stunning, eminently useful, and comprehensive resource for creating great food photographs. In this book, professional food photographer Lauren Short teaches you her entire image-making process as she covers lighting, composition, styling, storytelling, editing, and processing great food photographs.

Additionally, Lauren explains the why behind her creative decisions. By understanding her decision-making process and walking through her problem-solving techniques, you'll become better equipped to make informed creative decisions so you can excel at food photography, no matter what scenarios you encounter.

In the second part of the book, Lauren walks you through multiple case studies of complete, start-to-finish shoots so that you can see every aspect of her image-making process and understand how it all comes together. Each case study also includes a link to a full video for each shoot so you can easily follow along.

Table of Contents

Part 1: The Core Concepts

• Chapter 1: Lighting

• Chapter 2: Composition

• Chapter 3: Styling

• Chapter 4: Building a Story

• Chapter 5: Editing and Processing

Part 2: Bringing It All Together

• Chapter 6: 10 Image Case Studies

• Chapter 7: Finding Your Style