Have you ever noticed the mouth-watering pictures on food packaging? Or in a TV commercial? The foods you buy in stores and restaurants are never as delicious as they look in their advertising photos. In fact, there's a good chance you'll never enjoy the food shown in those images.
The reason is, professional food photographers use all sorts of inedible products to make food look appealing in front of a lens. Below you can watch a 9-minute video that describes the 10 best tricks used to take these mouth-watering photos. And of course, there are others.
You will be surprised by the techniques, but also by the types of materials that replace edible products. For example:
1. Cotton balls are wetted and heated to produce continuous steam.
2. Mashed potatoes are used as an ice cream substitute
. 3. Glue is used as a milk substitute.
4. Steak painted with shoe polish to look like it was cooked on the grill
. 5. Shaving cream for whipped cream
. 6. Fruit sprayed with deodorant for an extra shiny appearance.
7. Colored wax to improve the appearance and consistency of sauces.
8. Cardboard used as a cake separator and as a binder in hamburgers.
9. Fresh chickens stuffed with absorbent paper and dyed to achieve a delicious brown skin.
10. Pancakes sprayed with fabric protector and motor oil as a syrup.
Watch the video below and never believe what you're seeing!!
