Reddit rules index · read 2026-09-26
Can you promote on r/foodphotography?
Self-promotion restricted Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed.
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Welcome to r/foodphotography - a place to share exceptional images of your own food photography including the process involved. Discuss and show examples of the techniques, equipment, props and everything involved along with examples of workflow. This should be a place of learning, not just showing nice pictures. Information on the shot is required. Provide lighting information, equipment and camera settings. Please refrain from posting social media OTG style images. Remember to read the rules
What its rules say about promotion
No Crowdfunding, commercial ad's, petitions, begging or surveys
This is not the place to fund your business or lifestyle. Don't ask others to do your work or provide a service you should be paying for. Some exceptions maybe considered. Links/posts that are not approved will be deleted and the account may be banned.
All 10 rules of r/foodphotography
- All OC image submissions must include shot details and lighting set up details.
All OC image contribution must have shot and lighting details. Users that repeatedly fail to follow the rule risk getting banned. - Constructive criticism should be helpful. Respect the person.
If someone ask for CC then be constructive and helpful. If you don't like an image then suggest how it might be improved or share tips on how you get your best shots, don't just say you don't like it. Respect the person and the effort they have taken to produce and share their work. Joke comments or off topic comments will be removed. - No low effort images. No Spam. No AI content.
Spam includes A.I. images, low effort posts, and snap shots. - Robust discussion is welcome and encouraged but keep it civil.
You may agree or disagree but once a discussion becomes an argument or insults and obscenities are used the thread will be locked or deleted and users risk being banned. - Links to blogs and websites
Links are welcome as long as the website/blog/YouTube/social media is predominantly about food photography and the processes involved. - No harassment, abuse, hate speech, or bigotry.
Any posts that attacks, threatens, or insults a person or group on the basis of national origin, ethnicity and/or colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability and so on may be removed at a mod's discretion and the user banned - Doxing will get you banned
If a user wants people to know who they are outside of Reddit they will divulge that information. If you divulge that information about someone then you will be banned. - No novelty accounts
Accounts made for a specific purpose that do not contribute in other ways will be banned. - No Crowdfunding, commercial ad's, petitions, begging or surveys
This is not the place to fund your business or lifestyle. Don't ask others to do your work or provide a service you should be paying for. Some exceptions maybe considered. Links/posts that are not approved will be deleted and the account may be banned. - Clearly mark posts that are not your own work with the original source.
Don't pass off others work as your own.
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The verdict is our reading of r/foodphotography's rule text on 2026-09-26. Rules change and moderators decide: read the current rules before you post. Not affiliated with Reddit or r/foodphotography.