22 tantalizing food photography tips for World Food Day

Three food photography images, cakes, a bowl of soup and cheese and bread
N-Photo readers captured incredible Super Shots, like these, with the help of four seasoned professional food photographers (Image credit: Mick Thurman / Hannah Daniel)

To celebrate World Food Day, I've collected a selection of tips and tricks from professional food photographers whose job it is to capture truly scrumptious captures.

Food photography is a subject that everyone can attempt in the comfort of their own kitchens. And while the best camera for food photography and the best lenses for food photography certainly help, a kit lens or 'nifty fifty' and a sturdy tripod are really the only essentials needed to capture stunning 'foodie' images.

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Mike Harris
How To Editor

Mike is Digital Camera World's How To Editor. He has over a decade of experience, writing for some of the biggest specialist publications including Digital Camera, Digital Photographer and PhotoPlus: The Canon Magazine. Prior to DCW, Mike was Deputy Editor of N-Photo: The Nikon Magazine and Production Editor at Wex Photo Video, where he sharpened his skills in both the stills and videography spheres. While he's an avid motorsport photographer, his skills extend to every genre of photography – making him one of Digital Camera World's top tutors for techniques on cameras, lenses, tripods, filters and other imaging equipment – as well as sharing his expertise on shooting everything from portraits and landscapes to abstracts and architecture to wildlife and, yes, fast things going around race tracks...

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