Looking at pictures of the first two dishes made me realize how important lighti...

stingraycharles · on March 9, 2010

Yep. I recently saw the lighting setup of one of my favorite cooking websites, FXcuisine.com:

http://fxcuisine.com/zoom-image.asp?image=http://images.fxcu...

It's amazing how professional it looks, but then again, the pictures always look delicious.

weaksauce · on March 10, 2010

White balance is super important as well as a shadows to give you good depth and texture to the dish. Leaving those out is like leaving the chicken out of chicken noodle soup.