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Photographers are always chasing light. Sometimes it’s the light that’s in the scene we’re chasing — sunrises and sunsets. Other times, it’s the light we bring to it. My journey as a food photographer has taught me much about light. Photographing food, especially in restaurants, has taught me the most about what light means to an image. In the same way the golden hour matters to us as landscape or even portrait photographers, the right light makes all the difference to the subject of food. 

I liken food photography to landscape photography. What I mean is that both are highly accessible; after all, we eat every day. And, permission isn’t needed to at...

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