Food Styling for Photographers

CHAPTER FOUR

Build salad greens between the two bowls to further
conceal the inverted bowl. Using this method doesn’t
totally prevent cave-ins, but it helps. Th e longer a salad
waits on set for fi nal capture, the higher the chances are
the salad will settle and the perky fresh appearance will be
lost. Another method for creating support within a photo
salad is to use STYROFOAM cut into an appropriate
shape for the hero bowl. Spray the craft foam with spray
paint in a color close to lettuce green and use salad greens
to hide the support from the camera’s view.

TRICKS OF THE TRADE Lightly mist all salad greens with cool

water before building them into the salad. This trick will help the

greens stay fresh and crisp longer.

How to Dress a Salad for Photography

An oil-based salad dressing causes salad greens to col-

lapse and will make everything in the salad slippery and

diffi cult to style. For this reason, you don’t want to toss

dressing into a salad for photography the same way you

would at home. If you choose to show that a dressing

has been applied to a salad, there are some tricks to

consider. Th e most interesting aspect of a salad dressing

for photography is the small bits of herbs and spice

fl akes. Th ese can be added to the salad by fi rst misting