Food Styling for Photographers

BREAKFAST FOR THE CAMERA

for baking. Th ese look beautiful and work very well for

the camera, unless you prefer to fi nd a recipe and mix

them yourself.

Scrambled Eggs

Let’s look now at some of the techniques I use to make

scrambled eggs for photography. Note that scrambled

eggs will not remain hero quality for very long after

cooking, so I usually scramble them immediately before

building the hero plate.

Here are a few tips to use when cracking eggs to avoid

shell shards and spots in cooked eggs. Place a paper towel

on a clean fl at surface. Holding one egg fi rmly, sharply

strike the egg on the paper towel area to crack the shell.

Open the egg over a small bowl. If there are no shell