Karen evans food stylist tricks

Earlier this year, we brought you our complete guide to food photography. We talked about everything from creating optimal lighting and composition to choosing the right props, equipment, and camera settings for your needs.

Karen evans food stylist tricks

Karen evans food stylist tricks

Food stylist tricks of the trade

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With a little practice, these tips can take you from a discolored, distorted smartphone photo to something like this:

But there's more to food photography than just, well, photography: professional stylists play an integral role in making magazine-quality shots look as viscerally appealing as possible.

That can range from doing the actual cooking and plating to selecting cutlery and arranging an entire table spread. "Stylists," says Serious Eats Visual Editor Vicky Wasik, "prepare the food to make it look its best in real life, and help to set the scene and tell a story.

Then it's up to the photographer to make sure the lighting, composition, and framing is right to capture it."

So what does that process actually