Styling

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Food styling

Lesson 7 of 11 in Styling.

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Food photographs badly and fast. Salad wilts, ice melts, sauce skins over, bread goes grey under a light, and everything that looked appetising at nine looks dead at half past. A food stylist's whole craft is managing that.

An ink drawing of a photographer lighting a grey stand-in plate while a food stylist arranges the real noodle dish with tweezers over a tray of ice.
Lighting a stand-in plate while the real dish waits cold at the side.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Somebody who makes food photograph. A specialist craft with its own kit.”

    • Texture mix
    • Silhouette
    • Food stylist
    • Hero piece
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “A dummy plate used to light the shot while the real one waits.”

    • Stand-in
    • Look order
    • Alteration
    • Fit photo
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “The one that goes in front of the camera, assembled at the last moment.”

    • Hero plate
    • Surface
    • Prop
    • Damages

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