#48 - How to photograph chocolate with Heather Mubarak

My Food Lens

I remember taking out a bar of chocolate from the fridge.

Placing it on a blue backdrop.

Chocolate, ha! It's got so much oomph.

I thought, “how hard could it be to shoot?"

So, I adjusted the light.. And took a shot.

Ahem.. It looked like..like.. a pile of brown.

Ok never mind. I’m not a quitter..

So, I got some chocolate chips, a bit of cocoa, chocolate kisses and added it all to the composition.

I thought more chocolate would bring interest, and make it better.

Alas! I was wrong – still looked like a pile of brown!

That’s the day I realized that out of all brown foods, chocolate is the trickiest.

In this episode, I discuss these and so many other chocolate truths with the “Queen of Chocolate”, Heather Mubarak. Heather is a cookbook author, food blogger, and creates recipes and photographs for prestigious bands like Ghirardelli.

Heather shares how she churns out content after content for social media and the blog, makes money working with clients, handles tricky brown food like chocolate, and the mistakes in baked food photography.

At the end of the day, brown food is not our nemesis and we should not be intimidated by it.

Sometimes, it just takes a better understanding of the food and other times it takes a deeper understanding of photography technique to make brown food our friend.

Out of all the tricky foods in the world, photographing chocolate can actually be the most fun.
Packed with creativity and truly an experience, it mimics what it’s like to take a bite into a delicious bar of chocolate.
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