Food may seem like one of the easiest objects to photograph, but it’s not necessarily that simple. You’ll need to practice as much as you can to get the right angle, emphasise the right parts and create interest in a potentially rather plain image. If you get good at it though, there are a number of functions it could serve for you. Here are some ideas for generating business for yourself:

1. Take photographs for restaurants. There are often close-up images of the food they serve displayed on their walls and in their menus, and they’ll need a good photographer to produce these for them.
2. Work for hotels. They’ll often want photographs of their breakfast food and events catering for their website and printed literature.
3. Get into advertising. Many different food-related brands will want to advertise their products and they’ll need them to look as appetising as possible. You’ll also need to know how to work with angles to make the dishes look as generous as possible.
4. Produce food packaging. Almost everything edible which is sold in a supermarket will have images of the finished product somewhere on its packaging. It’s a big industry to get into.
5. Speak to individual shops. Smaller retailers will often rely on the quality of their food to allow them to charge more for it, so they’ll need high quality images which show it off to its best potential.