Food Photography

Equipment Requirements

Photography of food if each time you bring a camera, it is not very realistic to shoot good-looking food actually need to pay attention to is the composition and shooting angle, cell phone camera universal, grasp these two points, the photo overall enhancement of a lot of camera color and image quality and bokeh than the phone is strong, especially in the low-light environment, the camera's advantage is obvious some

Light Requirements

If the day outdoor light is naturally not a problem, the indoor then find a window location to take advantage of natural light.

Light requirements

If you're outdoors during the day, light is not a problem, but if you're indoors during the day, you'll want to find a spot by the window to take advantage of the natural light, and if you're not in a good position to find a spot, or if you don't have enough light at night, you'll probably need to fill in the light

Shooting Angles

There are three types of food-shooting angles: overhead, sideways, and diagonally. flat shot and angled shot

One from the top of the food overhead

If you want to shoot the whole picture of the food to show the feeling of abundance, you can shoot vertically from the top down, and find some small objects to embellish, let's take the pizza as an example, you can shoot from the top of the pizza picture only half of the pizza, will be the knife, fork and other snacks to reveal the corner of the embellishment, it will seem more

Small tips

This angle if the light in the overhead or behind the food will have a shadow, need to use other light sources to make up the light

Two side of the flat angle shooting

Like cake, ice cream, a class of desserts, are part of the vertical height of the side is also relatively good-looking, you can try to shoot flat shoot shoot must be noted that background selection is not too cluttered, on the other hand, to avoid the shadow of the interference

Three from the food shot diagonally above

Diagonally above the shooting is usually the most commonly used shooting angle, in line with most people's shooting habits, you can shoot the whole picture of the food is also not the shadow of the suffering

Commonly used to learn to take pictures of the angle of the photo is just to master the most basic skills, the composition of the decision is the key to determine whether the photo

We can't live without chopsticks, knives, forks and other cutlery when we're eating, so we need to make good use of these props to put these cutlery next to the food as an embellishment to give it a more graphic feel than just taking a picture of the food alone

Commonly used compositions

Learning to take photos at an angle is just a matter of grasping the basic skills, and it's the composition that determines how the photo will look.

The key to determining whether a photo is full of realism

The reasoning behind only shooting partially but not fully is simple: the reason Venus is beautiful is that her broken arm gives people space to imagine the same thing with food, and deliberately only fearing the best part of the food, the photo will not look dead if you shoot more than one, shoot the whole thing can be cropped through the editing tool that comes with the phone to create an incomplete effect

Backgrounds are as simple as possible

Backgrounds are as simple as possible

Backgrounds are as simple as they can be. Simple

Simple background can avoid visual interference, you can use the white composition method, intentionally leaving a large area of blank space in the picture to achieve a more prominent role of the main body

Square composition

Sometimes the simplest is the most appropriate, the size of the photo 1:1 picture of a four-flat and stable in the middle of the rules, so that people look very comfortable

Square composition

Square line composition

For some long plates of food, you can try diagonal compositions, like the one below, where the subjects are arranged along the diagonal, which is not only more vivid but also guides the eye