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Food photographers work to create and capture these  beautiful  and enticing images of food for magazines, cookbooks, restaurant promotional materials, and Web sites. They work with food stylists to make the food look as appetizing and aesthetically  beautiful  as possible. Food photography  is an artistic technique employed to exaggerate or enhance tothe appearance of food, often for advertising purposes. It is akin to fashion photography in that techniques such as lighting, backgrounds, focus, depth of view, filters are adjusted in ways to glamorize or idealize its often mundane subject. Other tricks of the trade include painting or coloring the photographed objects in order to make them look more appetizing; paintin uncooked chicken or fowl a deep, glistening brown, for instance, is a standard technique. In popular culture, the exaggerated perfection of the photographs, as well as the mouth-watering images of the food itself, is oc...