{"id":13888,"date":"2019-07-22T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=13888"},"modified":"2019-07-15T15:43:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T19:43:32","slug":"vegan-food-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/22\/vegan-food-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"VEGAN FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Emily Carter, VRG Intern<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are anything like me, you probably follow\na lot of vegan food news on Instagram, Facebook, and in magazines, and you see\nphotos of beautiful vegan food on the daily. Also, if you are like me, you have\nno idea how to make food look like that yourself. Last week, two VRG interns,\nAmy Dell and myself, went with Vegetarian\nJournal<\/em> Senior Editor Rissa Miller and her partner Nathanial Corn (together\nthey own Balance Photography) to assist in photographing all of the\ndelicious foods the vegan Greener Kitchen restaurant and wholesaler in\nBaltimore offers. It turns out there is a lot more that goes into making those\nmouth-watering photos than I had previously thought!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preparation is important for ensuring smooth transition between photographing different dishes. Prior to the session, Brenda from the Greener Kitchen put together a shot list to give order to the photo shoot. Organization and timeliness are necessary for food photography because food starts to get droopy and unphotogenic fairly quickly. For instance, when photographing their Philly cheesesteak sandwich, we had to act quickly so that the cheese sauce did not ooze too much (the cheese sauce was incredible if you are wondering). You have to photograph the dishes just like how you want to eat them–right away!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clean plates, fresh food, food placement, and\nlighting are the key ingredients to creating appetizing photos. Great photos\nare necessary for advertisement and appealing menus, so booking a food\nphotographer is a good investment (unless you are already a master photographer\nof course). Rissa and Nathaniel did the bulk of the photography, while Amy and\nI held reflectors and moved food between several photo stations to change up\nthe lighting. Oh, and we also helped eat all the food! Photographing food makes\nyou very hungry, and then very full…like uncomfortably full. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took two photos of their seitan sausages, one\nof which showed Rissa moving a plate away from the shot (rearrangement is her\nspecialty). I took a black and white film photography class in college, and I\nwas never very good, so it was no surprise to me that I did not take the best\nphotos. I learned that it takes a lot of experience to capture food and all of\nits glory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Located in Pigtown, Baltimore, The Greener Kitchen is all vegan. They have indoor seating, a deli with house-made vegan cheeses and meats, delectable desserts, and homemade vegan condiments that you can purchase and take home! The Greener Kitchen is fighting for food justice by providing healthy and affordable plant-based food to the local community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

See: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenerkitchenco\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.thegreenerkitchen.com\/<\/a>

To see information about other restaurants in the USA and Canada, see: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/restaurant\/index.php<\/a>

For information about interning at The Vegetarian Resource Group, visit: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Emily Carter, VRG Intern If you are anything like me, you probably follow a lot of vegan food news on Instagram, Facebook, and in magazines, and you see photos of beautiful vegan food on the daily. Also, if you are like me, you have no idea how to make food look like that yourself. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13890,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13888\/revisions\/13890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}