How to make your food photos stand out from the circle of friends

It is a necessary ceremony for modern young people to order food and eat it with the camera first. It doesn't even matter whether the food is delicious or not. What matters is whether it looks delicious. As the common saying goes, eating without taking a beautiful picture is free.

how to be a gourmet in a circle of friends? Photos are the key. It's impossible for us to put a camera in our bag every day, but the mobile phone must never leave us. As long as we can use it well, it's enough for your food photos to dominate the circle of friends!

The essence of photographing food is photographing still life. The advantage is that all the basic elements are under your control (except the fixed lighting in the restaurant). You can photograph as long as you want and how you want, but there are also disadvantages. It is more difficult to control the details, and minor changes in light and shadow or composition will be doubled. It is easy to shoot food, but it is difficult to shoot food well. If you want to achieve remarkable results, you must start from these points first.

First, the best choice to shoot food with light

is natural light, which can make food natural and comfortable, and better restore the original color of food; Secondly, the artificial light source can be controlled freely, but attention should be paid to the problem of color temperature; Finally, if you want to create special effects, you can try to use a flash.

Second, composition

In order to simplify learning, we divide composition into two points: one is the viewing angle, and the other is the composition ratio. Taking a picture is a process of fixing a three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional plane. By changing the viewing angle, the geometric position of the picture elements can be changed. Is it a panoramic view or a close-up? Looking down or looking up? Is it a triangle composition or a three-point composition?

It mainly depends on your expression intention. If you want to show the richness of food, it will be better to look down.

Third, the focus

Touch the screen to select the focus. Thanks to the large aperture dual-camera lens of Samsung Galaxy Note8 E8, the blur effect is very obvious, so we should pay more attention to the choice of focus. Focus on the main body of food, and the main body should be in the best light position. Because our eyes often notice the brightest area in the picture first, and the accurate focus will deepen our impression, so that even if it is blurred, it can add three-dimensional sense to the picture.