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Food Photography: Introduction to storytelling in food photography

Name: Food Photography: Introduction to storytelling in food photography
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Rating: 4.0 (117 reviews)

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Tell Visual Stories Through Food

Marte Marie Forsberg's class is a lesson in visual narrative disguised as a food-photography tutorial. She takes you from English countryside to farmer's market to garden, and along the way you learn to think in sequences and emotional arcs. The instruction covers the practical mechanics—planning, styling, lighting—but the real education is in how she curates images together, using color and detail to pull a viewer through a story. She emphasizes overview shots alongside close-ups, and honors the small moments that feel perfect. The class works for anyone: bloggers framing a recipe, photographers pitching magazine ideas, or creators learning to present their work with intention.

About this course

Join Norwegian photographer Marte Marie Forsberg for a short introduction class on telling a visual story, and planning a small shoot.

You'll travel with Marte Marie to her English countryside cottage, pick up a few items at the market, and make your way to a friend's garden allotment to photograph the story of a rustic, everyday feast.

Throughout the lessons, Marte Marie touches on planning a shoot, styling, and photographing — with special consideration to telling a visual story, with emphasis on color, overview images, detail images, and curating a group of images together.

Beautifully shot, full of inspiration, and brimming with insights, this class is perfect for beginning and pro photographers alike. Whether you're shooting a food story for your blog, a magazine pitch, or for a client, you'll leave this class full of inspiration, and with a better understanding fo how to tell visual stories and setting up a small shoot.

It's a welcome reminder of small moments that are truly perfect.

Note: This class is demonstration-based, and the emphasis is on inspiring you to photograph a story of your own. For more technical classes on photography skills, be sure to explore all of Skillshare's photography classes.

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Be sure to join Marte Marie's first class on Skillshare, Lifestyle Photography: Capturing Food, Flavors, Conversation, for more on light, composition, and visual storytelling!