Learn How to Take Amazing Food Photography with These 5 Skillshare Classes

Captured by Adam Goldberg

If you want to learn how you can capture beautiful food photographs, then Skillshare has you covered. Skillshare has a wide array of photography classes, but they also have some amazing classes that focus primarily on food photography. Whether you're trying to capture beautiful food moments for Instagram or composing photographs for a recipe you would like to share, there is a Skillshare class for you.

Here are Skillshare classes you should take to take your food photography skills to a whole new level.

1. Create a Food Story: Cook, Photograph and Share Your Favorite Recipe

Learn how to capture the story behind your favorite recipes and share it with those around you with Doug and Kelsi Klembara.

This course will help you identify the best recipe to cook and photograph as well as how to document your process with dynamic images and moving words in order fully capture your favorite recipe. This class is perfect for both professional chefs and home cooks. 

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2. Lifestyle Photography: Capturing Food, Flavors, Conversation

Join food photographer Marte Marie Forsberg as she shares her approach to lifestyle food photography and how to capture everyday moments in an artistic way. This 20-minute online class touches on inspiration, styling, shooting, and editing. This way, you can successfully capture a setting, its food, and the life surrounding it. Beautifully shot, full of inspiration, and brimming with insights, this class is perfect for photographers of all shapes and sizes (and skills). 

Take small, perfect moments and capture them forever.

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3. Styling Food for Instagram: Creating Collages

This 40-minute class will let you to the farmers market to find the freshest, most colorful ingredients for not only dinner, but also a beautiful food collage. Follow along with Julie Lee as she prepares her ingredients and arranges them into a collaged work of art. 

Julie photographs her work, edits the photo, and shares the final image in a fun step-by-step, on-location class capturing a real experience of food, photography, and art. This class is perfect for any and all foodies, artists, and photo aficionados looking for a unique way to make an image.

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4. Food Photography: Shooting at Restaurants

Learn to make a dish look as great as it tastes. In this 30-minute class, freelance food photographer Daniel Krieger reveals how he styles and shoots food both on the job and when he's out on his own. Each bite-sized video lesson covers his gear, ordering, shooting in daylight, and the images that make his portfolio stand out. Whether you use a DSLR or iPhone camera (or both), you'll love watching Daniel's gorgeous images come to life — and then creating your own.

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5. Food Photography: Capturing a Morning Worth Eating

Photographer Adam Goldberg is known for shooting everyday food with beauty, symmetry, and a clean aesthetic. In this 30-minute class, travel with Adam as he captures his morning routine at two of his favorite Brooklyn cafes: Parlor Coffee Roastery and Sweetleaf. He reveals how to shoot the perfect latte and croissant, edit in Snapseed and VSCO Cam, and transform a humble iPhone shot into a spectacular image. By the end of the class, you’ll have the skills to capture your own morning routine in a way that’s real, inspired, and perfect for Instagram.

Take this class on Skillshare now!

I'll make sure to review each of these classes individually. So keep coming back to check the results of my own food photography projects.

PS: Register a new account from this link to get a free one month premium membership from Skillshare! They also have a promo where you can avail of 3 months premium membership for only 99 cents after you register only until September 9! 

Further reading you might like:

• Learn the Art of Baking from South African Food Personality Sarah Graham
• Let Michael Phillips from Blue Bottle Coffee Teach You How to Brew an Amazing Cup of Coffee
• Eight Brewing Parameters You Should Tweak to Make That Cup of Coffee Even More Delicious

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