When he said "dark food photography is really popular right now" it sounded like dogfood photography to me xD I just thought: what?! Dogfood photography, really? Trends these days... *:-D
Really love your videos Sean. I stumbled on them a few days ago (Editing Color was the first one) and it really changed the way i'm looking at the pictures I'm trying to take. I also realised I had already seen some of your videos about Product Photography a few years back and I remember taking so many tips from it back then, while I was working on 3d lighting product shots. Thanks so much for being such an inspirational photographer and genuine human being.
I liked the way you brought out that camera range thing yet again. 5D, 550D or your iphone, you did the job great. Also, it was good to learn how simply we can set up our own budget studio without fancy stuff. Keep going mate, you are amazing!
Another brilliant video with great tips. This is the first video of yours I’ve actively put off watching. I was a chef for 20 years but it ended quite bad and I had to give it up due to having a condition colloquially know as the chef's illness (alcoholism). I’ve purposely avoided almost everything to do with food photography since, even though I’ve been sober for 22 years. Watching this has started me thinking, I know food very well and I’m slowly learning how to press a shutter.
Thanks for sharing- I have a similar story to you (Chef /Owner) Although I don't have the 22 years and it is day to day for me- I have picked up the camera too. (-; Good luck
Dang Sean, I have watched a bunch of food photography videos and then find yours and realize that I could have easily just skipped all the other ones and saved time. Big fan, as you can see, and as a middle-aged introvert, I don't say that lightly. The dark moody photo of the cake is really amazing.
I just stumbled on your site, at the suggestion of my photographer husband, and it is WONDERFUL! I love how practical your tips are, even for a fairly new photographer. Very easy to understand and super inspiring! I love that you emphasize you don't always need super fancy equipment to capture beautiful photos. Amazing content; THANK YOU!
This is EXACTLY why I love your videos. So in-depth yet so simple to follow and understand! Thank you as always. Also loved the comparison of pics with different cameras. Would have loved to learn more about styling.
Really great video tutorial. It's really pleasant to get some learning resources like these from professional: that goes farther than "hey use this amazing lightroom preset"...
Excellent video Sean thank you very much for sharing this. Food photography has been an interest of mine for a while so this really resonates with me. You and your friend make a great team. Great job on putting all this content together.
Love this! Coincides with me messing about with my Nikon D3300, 50mm/1.8 lens and some chocolate brownies I made. I'll go back now and try out some of your tips. Awesome work Sean.
I know this is not a recent video, but it looks like a fun collaboration. I also have to agree with you on the apsc sensor canon body and the nifty fifty. It's a fantastic combanation that gives you a versital 80 mm or so focal length. I am currently in this configuration. Best of all when I go full frame I have a 50mm f1.8. Another great vid!
Best tutorials I have found on the internet so far. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this! Would love to see content on video. Just saw your color grading video, it was fantastic. Definitely subscribed!
Sean...you are one of the most insprational (non-pretentious) photographers that I have seen on RUclips. You are a pleasure to watch. The tips you provide really do help me to improve my photography (which I have been doing for over 20 years). Every day is a school day!
I enjoyed this video Sean! Thank you! You and your friend are great teachers. I take pictures of my own foods but I am always thinking what if I had this, or that... but you had great tips to create amazing pictures. Oh the food, looks yummy.
I feel like having a tripod helps alot in this scenario because you can use a longer shutter speed which results in better control of your exposure. Thanks for this video Sean!
You have to be the clear and straight forward photography guru i have ever heard. You say everything that we need to hear, nothing, ambiguous or assuming that we know already. well done you! onwards........
That's spooky Sean. As you know I follow your blogs, videos, photography etc with great interest and have been thinking recently that I'd like to shoot food. And low and behold you are there once again to offer your insight. Thank you. The food you shot looks delicious and mouthwatering and the photographs were amazing. Tony.
Your videos are always so artful. Thank you for sharing. I don't usually take pictures of my food but I do share a lot about my life on my videos & my Instagram so if I manage to make them look beautiful with your tips, it would be a great thing to add. Thanks for your videos! They inspire me every time. 🙌🏼
Liked and subbed. I found the opening rather boring but I'm so glad I stuck with it. The content and results are amazing and my only wish is that your friend, Vla, included more of his stylistic inspirations in his descriptions to help out photographers who don't have their own stylists. Gotta check out his blog now so thanks for posting a link to it.
Thank you so much. This just appeared in my feed as I'm looking to learn better food photography skills for my China Instagram. What I love is that it's a genuine video raw and not overproduced. Humble with useful information that I can see. You also make it accessible and relatable to me. I'm starting with my phone cameras. Once I hit an Insta milestone I will upgrade to a decent old Cannon as you have shown. And I love the comparison of the phone to the cameras and how to do light and dark photography. So I felt so warm and moved by this lovely video that I joined.
Helpful and inspiring as ever, Sean. Particularly love how you utilize available light, improvised light modifiers, and less than fancy gear. Very encouraging, makes me want to experiment with the genre myself.
What is The tripod you are usin? Brand and model. Love your content thankyou so much. Do you have any tips on shooting videos for food like The way done in this video?, thanks
For you who are looking for cheap to go, in 2020 I would recommend Canon 200D (Rebel SL2) + Canon EF 50mm 1.8. One greate thing you will also get is spinnable screen :)
I really love it that Sean uses older and used gear that's more affordable to photography-beginners than a 5Div or a 1Dx. Oh. I wrote this comment before I read the title of the video.
Hi Sean, Your work is amazing. Recently upgraded my camera o a full frame mirrorless camera. Canon EOS R I have a kit lens with it , a 24-105 mm focal length is F4. Would I be able to do for starters food photography with this lens?
Thanks. have been reading a lot too but will surely shoot some pics on food and can I send the shots over to you for some positive or negative critics? can I have an email address? Thanks once again.
Hi! What tripod were you using? I love your approach in a world where people are always talking gear and making things seem more complex than ever. Thanks
what do you call the tripod that was used for the last shot of the barbecue? I've always wanted one with a center column where you can make your camera look directly below. Am I making sense? haha would be grateful who can point me in the right direction. Sean provided a link for a different tripod.
I've been following you for a while now Sean - love the pace of your pieces, the way you explain stuff in an educational but not patronising way... and most of all the personable and measured way in which you do it. More power to you. This as ever is a super film, and despite the fact I've been photographing for a while, there were still some great tips here for me to devour (excuse the food pun). I have a question about the background you were using though? Love it... it's a mottled ark one... where did you get it? Would like to use it for some street portrait experiments.Happy New Year Sean!
Great video. I have an inexpensive setup and a plastic fantastic. What I do like is your comparisons with the different cameras. The other thing is using cards and other everyday things as reflectors and diffusers to get the look you want. I’ve seen other channels where they have lights, speedlites and huge soft boxes that are worth a fortune just to get a photo. Subscribed!
Very interesting video. I've hardly ever done food photography before, but this is very helpful, Especially the light set up. I used to use a Canon 40D (when it first came out) and when it went "tits up" during the Manx Grand Prix, i had to go back to my 400D...............and it was awesome!!!! Never write off a cheaper entry level camera. I have the plastic fantastic too. Great little lens. Great vid again, Sean, very helpful
Great video Sean. It's not an area I've ever really spent any time with, but it's inspiring when you watch someone who really knows what they're doing. Super recipes from Vla too!
I just take occasional photos of my food for instagram and a little cookbook, and my best investments were: - a reflector - an overhead tripod (the one where you can flip the middle pole) I need no artificial light whatsoever, and I don't use any fake tricks, I just place the tripod and everything before I shoot and then I act fast. My only problem is when I cook in the evening. Then I have to use crappy light... But I still would not buy any kind of light source. It's just that I don't use it often enough. For it to be usable for me it would have to be very small (in packing it up) and very affordable. And I simply don't see that. I don't like softboxes, I don't like ring lights. They all use up too much space. So for not, it's daylight. tungsten or no photo.
@@seantuck Thank you Sir, I appreciate it, will do. I'm trying to watch all your videos, I learn something from each of them, like that video where you say why you don't make a person or persons the main focus of your street photography because "it doesn't feel right".. I had been feeling the same way, but I always thought I had to include people and that I had to get those shots somehow without them noticing, but after hearing you say that you won't do it because it didn't feel right, I felt identified because I'm an introvert and I don't like this photography thing to feel awkward or unpleasant, so I will be doing the same thing, I will do street photography but I won't be taken pics right in front of people's faces, I will now focus on other things like murals, architectures, shadows, light, etc.. so thank you for sharing your thoughts.. and keep doing a great job.
Amazing video Sean! I love your style and the way that you show everything. Thank you very much for sharing all these amazing knowledge with us!! Cheers
When he said "dark food photography is really popular right now" it sounded like dogfood photography to me xD I just thought: what?! Dogfood photography, really? Trends these days... *:-D
😂
Really love your videos Sean. I stumbled on them a few days ago (Editing Color was the first one) and it really changed the way i'm looking at the pictures I'm trying to take. I also realised I had already seen some of your videos about Product Photography a few years back and I remember taking so many tips from it back then, while I was working on 3d lighting product shots. Thanks so much for being such an inspirational photographer and genuine human being.
I liked the way you brought out that camera range thing yet again. 5D, 550D or your iphone, you did the job great. Also, it was good to learn how simply we can set up our own budget studio without fancy stuff. Keep going mate, you are amazing!
Another brilliant video with great tips. This is the first video of yours I’ve actively put off watching. I was a chef for 20 years but it ended quite bad and I had to give it up due to having a condition colloquially know as the chef's illness (alcoholism). I’ve purposely avoided almost everything to do with food photography since, even though I’ve been sober for 22 years. Watching this has started me thinking, I know food very well and I’m slowly learning how to press a shutter.
+Mark Harris thanks for sharing that Mark. Maybe it’s time to jump back in on your own terms.
Go for it man. All the best.
Good on you Mark - it can be a tough gig. Go for it though...
You should be very proud of how you've overcome that. Do what your heart desires!
Thanks for sharing- I have a similar story to you (Chef /Owner) Although I don't have the 22 years and it is day to day for me- I have picked up the camera too. (-; Good luck
Dang Sean, I have watched a bunch of food photography videos and then find yours and realize that I could have easily just skipped all the other ones and saved time. Big fan, as you can see, and as a middle-aged introvert, I don't say that lightly. The dark moody photo of the cake is really amazing.
Can't decide if I came to the video for the tips on food photography or for the recipes now haha
The great thing is you don't have to choose:)
@@seantuck Did the link to the recipes get removed? I can't find it anywhere - the cake looks delicious!
Amazing tutorial, thank you!
I just stumbled on your site, at the suggestion of my photographer husband, and it is WONDERFUL! I love how practical your tips are, even for a fairly new photographer. Very easy to understand and super inspiring! I love that you emphasize you don't always need super fancy equipment to capture beautiful photos. Amazing content; THANK YOU!
This is EXACTLY why I love your videos. So in-depth yet so simple to follow and understand! Thank you as always. Also loved the comparison of pics with different cameras. Would have loved to learn more about styling.
Very helpful video! For me personally, using natural light is the best and easiest way to improve any food photo
thanks a lot for the informative tips! Those dark food photos were incredible😱😍
Really great video tutorial. It's really pleasant to get some learning resources like these from professional: that goes farther than "hey use this amazing lightroom preset"...
Excellent video Sean thank you very much for sharing this. Food photography has been an interest of mine for a while so this really resonates with me. You and your friend make a great team. Great job on putting all this content together.
Love this! Coincides with me messing about with my Nikon D3300, 50mm/1.8 lens and some chocolate brownies I made. I'll go back now and try out some of your tips. Awesome work Sean.
One word: Excellent! I love the simplicity, thank you to you both!
Your video remains a favorite refrence to review once in a while to refresh my knowledge on food photography 💕
Great vid ! So so so much helpful this Quarantine!
I know this is not a recent video, but it looks like a fun collaboration. I also have to agree with you on the apsc sensor canon body and the nifty fifty. It's a fantastic combanation that gives you a versital 80 mm or so focal length. I am currently in this configuration. Best of all when I go full frame I have a 50mm f1.8. Another great vid!
Best tutorials I have found on the internet so far. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this! Would love to see content on video. Just saw your color grading video, it was fantastic. Definitely subscribed!
More tutorials on filmmaking coming this year.
@@seantuck Fantastic!! Thank you so much. Notifications on!
Sean...you are one of the most insprational (non-pretentious) photographers that I have seen on RUclips. You are a pleasure to watch. The tips you provide really do help me to improve my photography (which I have been doing for over 20 years). Every day is a school day!
Andrew McAlpine totally agree!! Love this channel.
Woah! This channel has blown up so much as it’s supposed to. I was here around 30k. Great job, Sean!
Great one, great tips, thank you for sharing !
I enjoyed this video Sean! Thank you! You and your friend are great teachers. I take pictures of my own foods but I am always thinking what if I had this, or that... but you had great tips to create amazing pictures. Oh the food, looks yummy.
Amazing video, so helpful, thank you for maiking it approachable and informative!
I feel like having a tripod helps alot in this scenario because you can use a longer shutter speed which results in better control of your exposure. Thanks for this video Sean!
thx Sean for this video, been trying to find some insight on food photography, now i found it !!
Another great video Sean ! Congratulations and keep doing more ;) This particular one comes perfect for me as next shots are food photography :)
Excellent Excellent Excellent ..truly I am grateful for such an informative video
Great Video ! Thank you 🙏🏻
You have to be the clear and straight forward photography guru i have ever heard. You say everything that we need to hear, nothing, ambiguous or assuming that we know already. well done you! onwards........
i've always wondered how i could improve my food photography, now i know.. Thanks Sean :)
That's spooky Sean. As you know I follow your blogs, videos, photography etc with great interest and have been thinking recently that I'd like to shoot food. And low and behold you are there once again to offer your insight. Thank you. The food you shot looks delicious and mouthwatering and the photographs were amazing. Tony.
Your videos are always so artful. Thank you for sharing. I don't usually take pictures of my food but I do share a lot about my life on my videos & my Instagram so if I manage to make them look beautiful with your tips, it would be a great thing to add.
Thanks for your videos! They inspire me every time. 🙌🏼
Thanks mate:)
A very very great and simple tips from you, Mr.Sean, thanks a lot
very good, amazing shots with such simplicity of gear. Bravo
This is a great video.Excellent content but also really well presented. Thank you.
What a great video it inspired me to do food photography!! :)
That's beautiful
Got to learn the arrangement of reflecting blocking the light.
Unpretentious and helpful. Thanks!
Read it as “Food pornography” at first and still thought that made sense
Liked and subbed. I found the opening rather boring but I'm so glad I stuck with it. The content and results are amazing and my only wish is that your friend, Vla, included more of his stylistic inspirations in his descriptions to help out photographers who don't have their own stylists. Gotta check out his blog now so thanks for posting a link to it.
Great job on the video! What backdrop is that for the dramatic cake shot? Looks like a foldable painted background which looks great.
This guy deserves ALOT more subscribers. Subscribed!
Great video as always. But a 50mm on a crop sensor do NOT compress more the planes than on a full frame, it just crops the image.
Great info, thank you for these tips 🙌🏼
I own a canon 50d with the same 50mm lens you mentioned :)
I found the work you have done excellent! Thank you for sharing these tips with us :)
Top info, mister! The value that you present never ceases to amaze me.
This is a really good video for these lockdown days. Vla's link isn't working though.
Great tips, Sean! 👍🏽
Thank you so much. This just appeared in my feed as I'm looking to learn better food photography skills for my China Instagram. What I love is that it's a genuine video raw and not overproduced. Humble with useful information that I can see. You also make it accessible and relatable to me. I'm starting with my phone cameras. Once I hit an Insta milestone I will upgrade to a decent old Cannon as you have shown. And I love the comparison of the phone to the cameras and how to do light and dark photography. So I felt so warm and moved by this lovely video that I joined.
Helpful and inspiring as ever, Sean. Particularly love how you utilize available light, improvised light modifiers, and less than fancy gear. Very encouraging, makes me want to experiment with the genre myself.
excellent video, tips and food! Thanks!
Hey Sean.. Amazing video.. Thank you for these amazing contents..!!
Ommmmggggg I learned so much. Thank you!
Excellent presentation thank you
Beautiful works! I'm a beginner who's trying to get into the food photography. The tips are really mind-blowing to me. It's time find a real camera :)
What is The tripod you are usin? Brand and model. Love your content thankyou so much. Do you have any tips on shooting videos for food like The way done in this video?, thanks
Thank you for this great tutorial, it helps me a lot.
For you who are looking for cheap to go, in 2020 I would recommend Canon 200D (Rebel SL2) + Canon EF 50mm 1.8. One greate thing you will also get is spinnable screen :)
Good tutorial..im here to support and to learn
all in the preparation! thanks for showing your approach.The pointers about controlling light and shade are very helpful.
I really love it that Sean uses older and used gear that's more affordable to photography-beginners than a 5Div or a 1Dx.
Oh. I wrote this comment before I read the title of the video.
Great video really enjoyed the simplicity and clarity of explanation.
love love love
Great vid Sean! I'm tempted to change my path and become a food photographer for the free cake ;)
Hi Sean,
Your work is amazing. Recently upgraded my camera o a full frame mirrorless camera. Canon EOS R I have a kit lens with it , a 24-105 mm focal length is F4. Would I be able to do for starters food photography with this lens?
I’m sure. You probably want to be shooting at 105mm to compress your background and focus on the subject, but it’s a great lens.
Thanks. have been reading a lot too but will surely shoot some pics on food and can I send the shots over to you for some positive or negative critics? can I have an email address? Thanks once again.
I don't have time to do free image reviews for everyone I'm afraid.
THANK YOU
Amazing video. 🖤 Can you link the white and black boards that you used for the backgrounds? Thank you!
Hi! What tripod were you using? I love your approach in a world where people are always talking gear and making things seem more complex than ever. Thanks
Where can I get that nice foldable reflector you use as a backdrop? I like the colours and pattern of it. Thanks for the video
what do you call the tripod that was used for the last shot of the barbecue? I've always wanted one with a center column where you can make your camera look directly below. Am I making sense? haha would be grateful who can point me in the right direction. Sean provided a link for a different tripod.
Lots of great tips here. Glad you showed the shots too.
Wow, great video.. learnt alot... time to put it into practice for my channel
Today I will use a white and black card in a food photo shoot! Thanks!
I've been following you for a while now Sean - love the pace of your pieces, the way you explain stuff in an educational but not patronising way... and most of all the personable and measured way in which you do it. More power to you. This as ever is a super film, and despite the fact I've been photographing for a while, there were still some great tips here for me to devour (excuse the food pun). I have a question about the background you were using though? Love it... it's a mottled ark one... where did you get it? Would like to use it for some street portrait experiments.Happy New Year Sean!
realy nice and helpful video. After lessons like that, become clear that gear realy doesn't metter.
Great video. I have an inexpensive setup and a plastic fantastic. What I do like is your comparisons with the different cameras. The other thing is using cards and other everyday things as reflectors and diffusers to get the look you want. I’ve seen other channels where they have lights, speedlites and huge soft boxes that are worth a fortune just to get a photo.
Subscribed!
Thanks Andrew.
Love the overhead shots, but how the heck do you deal with the shadow you get from the camera itself??!
Don't position yourself between the light source and the subject. If the light is directly overhead you will always battle.
Very interesting video. I've hardly ever done food photography before, but this is very helpful, Especially the light set up. I used to use a Canon 40D (when it first came out) and when it went "tits up" during the Manx Grand Prix, i had to go back to my 400D...............and it was awesome!!!! Never write off a cheaper entry level camera. I have the plastic fantastic too. Great little lens. Great vid again, Sean, very helpful
Brilliant thank you 👍🏻👏🏻👊🏻
Thank you so much for sharing with us! I love the way you explain!! Great video and great pictures! Simply fantastic! You have a new subscriber!
Great video Sean. It's not an area I've ever really spent any time with, but it's inspiring when you watch someone who really knows what they're doing. Super recipes from Vla too!
Who would dislike this?
Wonderful food and excellent photography and teaching. Many thanks both.
I just take occasional photos of my food for instagram and a little cookbook, and my best investments were:
- a reflector
- an overhead tripod (the one where you can flip the middle pole)
I need no artificial light whatsoever, and I don't use any fake tricks, I just place the tripod and everything before I shoot and then I act fast. My only problem is when I cook in the evening. Then I have to use crappy light... But I still would not buy any kind of light source. It's just that I don't use it often enough. For it to be usable for me it would have to be very small (in packing it up) and very affordable. And I simply don't see that. I don't like softboxes, I don't like ring lights. They all use up too much space. So for not, it's daylight. tungsten or no photo.
Terrific video - visual treat. You explain things simply and don't waste a word. Inspiring.
Hi Sean, great video. Thanks again for all the videos. Question: was there much post production for these photos? Thnx.
Love love love your videos and your demeanor :)
Awesome video! One question, do you have to use a tripod to take these photos?..
No just make sure your shutter speed is fast enough that you're not getting camera shake.
@@seantuck Thank you Sir, I appreciate it, will do. I'm trying to watch all your videos, I learn something from each of them, like that video where you say why you don't make a person or persons the main focus of your street photography because "it doesn't feel right".. I had been feeling the same way, but I always thought I had to include people and that I had to get those shots somehow without them noticing, but after hearing you say that you won't do it because it didn't feel right, I felt identified because I'm an introvert and I don't like this photography thing to feel awkward or unpleasant, so I will be doing the same thing, I will do street photography but I won't be taken pics right in front of people's faces, I will now focus on other things like murals, architectures, shadows, light, etc.. so thank you for sharing your thoughts.. and keep doing a great job.
Outstanding, as always. Never a dull moment with your videos, Sean. Will be looking forward to your next video. :)
Thank you for sharing. I can totally relate to this - started photographing food just a few month ago, using similar improvised methods. ❤️❤️❤️
I'm working on a personal project and I'm shooting still life. The lighting principles work. Thanks.
Amazing video Sean! I love your style and the way that you show everything. Thank you very much for sharing all these amazing knowledge with us!! Cheers
Thank you so much for sharing! I thought this is an excellent, excellent tutorial. I learned so much and Im so excited to try this out!
amazing photoshooting advices ! thank you very very much!!!
Finaly someone who shares my experience... It's all about styling!
Great info
14.45 to 15.00 did anyone see the light change in the room , went from warm to cold
I am a food/product photographer for more than a decade, and still I have learned a lot from your video. Thanks for sharing!
Another great video Sean and great food by Vla, thank you for sharing and for all the information please keep it coming.
Great video and wonderful ideas to apply without an expensive gear. Thanks a lot Sean!!