Smart Phone Food Photography (Online)
Taught by Sarah Lohman
Sarah Lohman is a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling books Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods and Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of food as a way to access the stories of diverse Americans. Endangered Eating was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon’s Editors, Food & Wine, and Adam Gopnik on the Milk Street podcast. It was a finalist for the Nach Waxman Prize for Food & Drink Scholarship and winner of the Ohioana Library Book Prize for Nonfiction. Lohman’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NPR. Lohman has lectured across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC to The Culinary Historians of Southern California
*Participants will need their smartphone (you can switch back and forth from the Zoom app and the camera, but I recommend watching the Zoom on a separate laptop or desktop). And a simple fruit or veggie to photograph: apple, orange, potato, celery--whatever you've got!*
Whether you want to start a food blog, or blow up your Instagram, this class will help you take better food photographs.
Smartphones have beautiful cameras; but understanding both their advantages and limitations are important. This class will cover how angles, staging and light can make your photos look better; and we'll investigate Instagram editing tools to tweak your image.
Overall, smartphones are a great way to get started taking food photographs without spending money on a professional camera, and this class will teach the tools and techniques to take the best photos possible.
