Food is the best material to shoot, but how to make it appetizing requires some digital shooting skills. The following is a comprehensive collection of digital shooting skills I have carefully compiled for you, I hope you like it.

Skills of digital photography of food

1. Light

It is very important to show the texture and texture of food, and the most important factor is that there is just the right light. Generally speaking, the light of food shooting tends to be bright, and with the help of transparent doors and windows, natural light can make food softer and fresher. If the light is asymmetrical, you can use a white reflector or paper towel to fill the light, and put it opposite the light source to reflect the light to the food.

2. Close-up parts

To make food attractive enough, it is best to understand the attraction of ingredients. For example, the essence of a dish is sauce, and the characteristics of b dish are meat quality and cooking methods, so the best way to show its delicacy is to enlarge the part and aim at the essence area. When moving the camera position, also open the aperture, which can eliminate interference elements and make the line of sight more focused. ? Color, fragrance? Also came to my face.

3. Setting the plate

Different foods have their own appearance, and the shape of food has a lot to do with setting the plate, environment and light. And the way to set the plate is equivalent to the first time before shooting? Composition? , belongs to the chef's composition. The shape, color and setting way of food itself are the first impressions that affect appetite.

who should be chosen as the visual center? If there is only one main food, there is no dispute. However, if there are multiple food dishes of almost equal size, you can put the commonly used food photography composition method on the dish, refer to the composition of the food, and imagine that the elements in the dish are independent individuals, connecting lines and planes, keeping balance and symmetry in the picture, which can make the vision more comfortable.

4. There is a dynamic trend

As mentioned earlier, food is different from still photography because? Color, fragrance? It is a trend that can make the elements of the picture flow, stimulate the taste buds and be more attractive. Such as just opened soda, bubbles in the picture will stimulate thirst; Biting off half the food also makes people want to swallow because of the sense of substitution.

5. With the help of ingredients or tableware

Props here refer to ingredients or tableware used for matching, such as ginger, onion, garlic and red green pepper. In addition to seasoning, colorful small ingredients are props decorated with pictures, and the collision of colors greatly increases people's appetite;

In addition, it can be matched with exquisite and detailed tableware such as chopsticks and spoons. Good-looking tableware can instantly enhance photos and food, and make food literary. Chopsticks or spoons play a role in connecting food and mouth. When picking up/scooping food, people want to swallow saliva more than static soup, and they want to eat them.

6. Looking for an angle

Most of the food photos are taken indoors, and the shooting angles are mainly two kinds: head-down shooting and side shooting. Overhead photography is suitable for the time when the table layout is exquisite, interesting and there are many dishes. At this time, avoid the top light source that will cause hard light source; When shooting, the camera is parallel to the dishes. When shooting at a suitable height, you can see all the food on the table, and a good meal can be seen at a glance.

Side shots can focus on the characteristics of food, and focusing on attractive areas can distinguish between primary and secondary. When shooting from this angle, you should pay attention to the background impurities and lower the lens appropriately, so that the food will be more mouth-watering. Turn on the aperture to blur the background, but don't blur it too much, which makes the shot food unclear. Generally, the aperture of F2.8 is better.

7. Camera filter

Camera filter has become an indispensable drawing step for mobile phones to shoot delicious food. Unlike the gourmet camera App, the camera filter can add filters to photos according to the scene later. Generally speaking, the setting of camera filter App represented by INS is universal, which can be used in various occasions such as scenery, portrait and macro, and its applicability is slightly worse than that of special food retouching software.

Butter cameras can not only change suitable filters, but also apply font templates.

Easy-to-use food retouching apps include old-fashioned apps such as Edible Color and Butter Camera. These softwares have built-in filter modes that render the atmosphere, and you can get filters that meet the food atmosphere by simply clicking and selecting. Templates with literary fonts can also be added to butter cameras, which is also very popular. After loading, you can easily send graphic photos with accents to your circle of friends.

8. Food camera

Although the universal camera filter looks good, it will lose a lot of photo details. Except for a few filters, most of them are not suitable for expressing food texture. In order to meet the demand of eating goods and sharing food, a food camera for food, represented by Foodie, came into being.

What makes Foodie outstanding is its filters. More than 2 filters are customized for food. Look at the filter icons carefully, and they all represent a certain food. Like what? FR4 fresh? The representative food is berries. CH X? The representative food is noodles, etc. It is very intuitive to choose the corresponding filter for what food to shoot and what feelings you want to express. After selecting the filter, you can adjust the percentage of the filter according to your specific needs to make the food look more delicious ~

Summary: Attractive food can not only be eaten in a big mouth, but also be photographed in the future, so that you can put on any door and return to the feeling of tasting at that time. Know different foods? Tempting? At the moment, you will grab beautiful light and angles when shooting, and good food photos will make people have an appetite. Trying to enlarge the part, adding warmth and high color saturation to the picture are all tips to make people have an appetite. Skills of shooting food with SLR

1. Finding the best light source

The light problem is a big problem when shooting food indoors. The lights in many indoor restaurants are not bright, and the color is yellow, which will make the whole photo too noisy, underexposed or deviated from the white balance, and the photographed food is not as attractive as the naked eye looks.

Shadow is also the enemy of shooting food indoors. When you put your camera or mobile phone near, your shadow is also reflected on the food. Professional photographers can use reflectors or artificial light sources to solve this problem. In daily shooting, the best way is to adjust a variety of shooting angles.

tips

1) sit as close to natural light or bright places as possible.

2) Adjust the white balance setting of the camera. You can use white paper as an adjustment tool to adjust the color of the paper in the viewfinder to the nearest white.

3) Use various filters of the photo APP to create different effects.

Second, the shooting angle

1. Frontal shooting: The most traditional way to shoot food and panoramic or rich scenes is to shoot parallel to the plane where the food is placed.

2. Side shooting: Side shooting is 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.

3. Oblique side shooting: Oblique side shooting 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 chaos, you can use the shallow depth of field effect.

Third, composition skills

1. Center 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.

2. Irregular layout: There are many subjects in the picture, so you can use the golden section method of photography to compose the picture, or you can randomly place the photographed items without following the routine. But the main thing is not to make the whole picture unbalanced.

Fourth, get closer, and then get closer

A famous photographer once said: If you don't shoot well enough, you're not standing close enough. ? This criterion is equally applicable 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 more subjective. If you want to upload food photos different from others on social networks, you can try to get as close as possible to the subject and show the details.

The large aperture of a SLR camera can highlight the details more, but now the card machine has a good macro function, and it can also shoot close.

5. Solid color background or shallow depth of field highlights the theme

No matter what food you shoot, you can find a solid color background, and the shot will not be too bad.

But in many cases, the dining scene is messy and there is no relatively clean background. You can highlight the theme with shallow depth of field and blur the messy background.

Skills of shooting shallow depth of field

1. If it is a SLR camera, you can adjust the aperture (such as f/2.8) or increase the focal length (such as 2mm);

2. If it is a small DC or card machine, you can set the macro function and shoot as close as possible, and the mobile phone can also use the same method;