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9 Comments to "Secrets of Food Stylists."
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bart
June 11th, 2007 at
4:44 am
Tobacco smoke doesn’t make the greatest impression of a food steam. It’s better to use a tampon soaked in boiling water
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Dougall
June 11th, 2007 at
6:57 am
Years ago a friend and I started a graphics company and one of our commissions was to shoot food for a drive in movie intermission slide show - it had to look good enough to get people into the concession. We found out that the only food which didn’t need work was popcorn! Everything else was tweaked and touched up. Hamburger buns - spray varnish = nice and shiny. Pile of fries - held together with toothpicks. It was 4 AM when were done. We were starving, and the only thing we had which was edible was popcorn!
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Xeno
June 11th, 2007 at
7:12 am
I always thought that comparing fast food pix to what the customer gets would make a great web site. Unfortunately some have tried, and they were sued by the bastards who feed this crap to the public.
Here’s a brave soul who has done it to some degree:
http://www.thewvsr.com/adsvsreality.htm -
Alex
June 11th, 2007 at
11:34 am
Why, that was the post that inspired me to research this one, Xeno.
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artbot
June 11th, 2007 at
11:56 am
I thought that after the 70s they instituted rules for food photography where the food still had to be edible. It didn’t have to be the actual ingredients, just edible. Could be wrong.
There’s also a big difference between showing food in a movie or tv scene and its representaion in advertising, where there has to be some connection to the actual product.
I was originally a film major in college and the film dept. head was world famous for his ice cream commercials. I believe he had the Knudsen contract for, like, 20 years. We watched a 2 hour making-of doc on how to photograph ice cream. Not as sweet as it sounds, but still interesting.
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Cobwebs
June 11th, 2007 at
2:16 pm
As I understand it, only the food which is being advertised has to be real. So, if you’re advertising cereal, the “milk” can be white glue, but the cereal has to be the real product.
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Jaim
June 12th, 2007 at
1:48 am
A lot of photo’s of fruit..like strawberries are actually from carved wax!!!
Pretty neat
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The Slapster
June 12th, 2007 at
4:04 pm
There’s a company in Baltimore who’s entire purpose is to manufacture food, all molded plastic essentially. It’s realistic enough to standup in those buffet cases or Chinese food joints.
And yeah, my wife used to go on food shoots for ad work too. The stuff they did/do to make it look appealing is pretty cool, and entire science & art industry for faking it.
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PotatoCouch
March 28th, 2008 at
12:06 pm
I read an article a long time ago about this. For fried chicken commercials, they inject mashed potatoes into the drumsticks to make them look uniform and larger.
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