You’d be surprised how important it is to observe and analyze images.
When I saw a food photo that struck me as beautiful, I asked myself – why do I like this image so much? What kinds or props (plates, utensils, bowls, napkins) are they using? What are the main colors in the image? What kind of backgrounds work especially well? I read countless blog posts (like this one!), watched YouTube videos covering food styling, props setting, and editing, flipped through those handy recipe magazines you can pick up from your local groceries shop, and dug through any old cookbook I could find.
