How can we make mouth-watering food works? Let's take a look at the following.
First, find the best light source.
Lighting is a big problem when shooting food indoors. Many indoor restaurants have dim lights and yellow colors, which will make the whole photo too noisy, underexposed or grayish white, and the food taken is not as attractive as it looks to the naked eye.
Shadow is also the enemy of shooting food indoors. When the camera or mobile phone approaches, my shadow is also reflected on the food. Professional photographers can use reflectors or artificial light sources to solve this problem. When we shoot everyday, the best way is to adjust a variety of shooting angles.
Tip:
1. Sit as close to natural light or bright as possible.
2. Adjust the white balance setting of the camera. You can use white paper as a calibration tool to adjust the color of the paper in the viewfinder to the closest white.
3. If you are in the sun, you can shoot by the window; If there is no sunshine, you need to turn on all the lights in the room when shooting.
Second, the shooting angle.
? Frontal shooting
The most traditional way to shoot food and the whole picture or rich scene is to shoot parallel to the plane where the food is placed.
? Shoot directly on it.
Cute dishes, if shot from directly above, can be shot like paintings, full of artistic sense.
? Side shot
Side shots are especially suitable for hamburgers, sandwiches, cakes and other foods with more vertical levels. Where the light is poor, you often choose to shoot from the side, so it is not easy to leave a shadow in the picture.
? Slant shooting
The oblique side shot can not only capture the whole picture of food, but also avoid annoying shadows. Of course, if you want to highlight the theme and avoid confusion, you can use the shallow depth of field effect.
? Shoot from an oblique top.
As long as you shoot from an oblique top, you can show the three-dimensional sense of the object. In addition, you can also take photos with a sense of distance.
Third, composition skills
In composition skills, the most important thing to shoot food is to highlight the theme and avoid clutter. In daily shooting, you can consider the following composition methods:
? Central layout
The most commonly used layout. The circle mentioned here is not a complete circle, but a layout with the center of the picture as the center and scattered around, or? Symmetrical layout? . Generally speaking, it is to put the subject in the center of the picture. This composition is also suitable for square photos taken with iPhone photo apps such as Instagram and Hipstamatic.
? Irregular layout
There are many subjects in the picture, which can be composed by the golden section method of photography, or the subjects can be placed at will without following the routine. But the main thing is not to make the whole picture unbalanced.
? Leave the picture blank
Noodles, salads, glasses, bread, etc. When there are several items on the table, try to make the picture appear blank and the picture will appear more calm.
Four, close, close again.
A famous photographer once said: If you don't shoot well enough, you are not standing close enough. ? This standard also applies to food photography.
Give up the whole food and focus on the details, that is, enlarge the part that can be seen by the naked eye, so the photos taken are often more creative, vivid and interesting. This kind of photography is not only realistic, but also subjective. If you want to upload different food photos on social networks, you can try to be close to the subject and show the details.
Using the large aperture of SLR camera can highlight the main details. Now the card machine has a good macro function and can also shoot at close range.
As long as you zoom in on the dish, you can present a delicious feeling. Thick sauce and gravy are suitable for close-up photography.
Five, solid color background or shallow depth of field highlights the theme
No matter what food you shoot, you can find a solid background, and it won't be too bad. But many times the dining scene is messy and there is no relatively clean background. You can use shallow depth of field to highlight the theme and blur the messy background.
Techniques for shooting shallow depth of field:
1. If it is a SLR camera, we can adjust the aperture (such as f/2.8) or increase the focal length (such as 200mm);
2. If it is a small DC or card machine, you can set the macro function and take a close shot as much as possible. The same method can also be used on mobile phones such as iPhone/Android.
3.iPhone/Android can choose Instagram, Snapseed and other apps that can simulate tilt and shift to take photos and blur them artificially.
Six, the use of props
A delicious rice ball with Japanese atmosphere. Create a unique world with tablecloths and wooden plates as the background. After making a perfect dish, you should carefully organize the objects that appear in the picture.
1, tableware together into the mirror.
Tableware helps to add atmosphere to the dining table. If it is wooden tableware, it can make the picture softer.
2. Considering the balance with tableware.
Choose a tableware that won't be covered by orange noodles and green vegetable salad. If brightly colored tableware is used at this time, it will interfere with the existence of the cuisine itself.
3. The effect of using tablecloths and placemats
Because tablecloths and tableware are white and ivory, put a striped placemat between tablecloths and tableware to make the theme more prominent.
4. After arrangement
This is an example of careful arrangement. After changing the background to plain striped tablecloth, you can take photos of natural flavor as a whole.
5. A lonely painting
The white plate is lonely. Porphyra, pickled products and other ingredients on the rice ball become the visual focus.
Tips:
1, illuminated from behind the counter.
When shooting dishes, put the dishes on the dining table near the window and let the light shine from the back of the dishes, so that you can take a seemingly delicious photo. In other words, a little backlight is the basic shooting method. In particular, to make sauces and shiny dishes brighter can enhance the sense of delicacy.
2, but also into the atmosphere of the store.
For example, when dining in cafes and restaurants, you can shoot chairs and drinks by the way, and you can shoot a great atmosphere and become a wonderful picture.
3. The cooking process should also be filmed.
Fresh colors and shapes of vegetables, interesting cutting shapes, etc. Before and during cooking, just pause and pick up the camera to shoot. In this way, you can take impressive photos.