Lead: It seems that it has become one of the pleasures of many modern people's lives to turn over the recipes stained with sauce, follow the steps in the book, and finish the delicious dishes step by step, and then record them by hand through the camera and upload them to WeChat Weibo to share their cooking experiences. Of course, Yu Jie, a photographer, is one of them. He shares with you the skills of how to take a photo of delicious dishes full of Japanese air.

Our family often uses holidays with more free time to cook some special dinners. Because it is special, we often need to look at the recipes before cooking, so it takes more time and effort than ordinary cooking. It would be a pity to pick up the camera and shoot the delicious dishes that have been completed through painstaking efforts without modification and setting the plate.

In fact, the pre-production industry is the most important thing to make food look good and delicious. First, you should find a place with natural light, open the window and let the sun overflow the whole space, and it will become your own studio, and then start to decorate it carefully!

spread a tablecloth, put on a wooden spoon full of natural simplicity, and take out your favorite plate to put it on. After completing the above steps, it's not far from a good-looking photo.

please try to use natural light when taking pictures, and boldly rely on it! Because I am used to patting against the window, the light usually shines into the room from nine o'clock. When dinner is cooked, I often find that the sun is ready to go down and the light becomes weak. At this time, don't trust the stability of your hands too much. Put on a tripod! As long as the picture doesn't shake, it doesn't matter if the whole picture looks dark, because the light changes at each time can bring people different feelings, and because of this, the atmosphere taken at breakfast, lunch and dinner is different, and the content and emotion of the photos are much richer and closer to life.

besides the studio made of cloth and background can be used as a medium to create an imaginary overall atmosphere, in fact, the existing materials can be used to create an overall visual experience. To put it simply, the whole house is used as a studio, and the food is taken together with the background, without special construction, and a sense of disorder can be presented by clever composition.

natural light can also capture the texture of food.

Every space in the home has different light, some are dark and some are bright, so you can shoot more diverse atmosphere, and it is also the place to shoot food. We can start from the following points, for example, electrical appliances at home, bottles and jars, places where kitchen utensils are kept or bookcases are all good shooting places, which can create very rich pictures, and we can also find colorful items, such as red wine bottles, hot water bottles, etc., as a match, which can get great results!

set aside some space to make the photos feel relaxed.

The interest in making snacks is almost the same as the time when the author fell in love with photography, so there have been many photos of snacks made by our family. From the beginning, I took notes at random, and now I have tried my best to set the plate, consider the light and shoot. The picture has changed a lot all the way, and the light is one of the very important factors. Because at the beginning, we always use incandescent lamps or yellow lights at home, and the food is often yellow or blue, so it is difficult to make snacks look good and delicious.

In addition to shooting more and accumulating more experience, the author also began to observe other people's shooting techniques. On the website, I saw the photos of a housewife's life. It can be seen that all her photos were prepared in advance, including the careful arrangement of tablecloths and groceries, and the painted walls. In addition, the author also found that every photo of her was taken by natural light. The author followed suit and found that I could gradually get the feeling I wanted, that is, the feeling that was a little over-exposed, imperfect but full of life flavor. Making good use of natural light is the biggest secret of making a good snack.

Try to add scenes in life, such as reading books and preparing snacks, and choose relevant equipment to match them, so that you won't feel disobedient and the picture will be more harmonious.

Because I have always held the idea of sharing with you, or perhaps because of this idea, I have the motivation to take better photos. Sometimes photography really needs an idea and support.

The muffin in the picture below was shot against the light. Although the muffin was not shot very carefully, it captured a sweet and appetizing atmosphere. You can try to make use of the sunlight obliquely entering the room in the afternoon to make the dim sum full of warm colors. Although the low color temperature can restore the color of the food itself, it seems that there is a little less atmosphere, so it is best to adjust it according to the color temperature at that time. If you want to shoot the dim sum with your own life flavor, you can try to adjust it to EV+2 by manual focusing to make the picture appear a little out of focus and overexposure.

properly controlling the exposure and white balance values can add points to the works.

Of course, the matching of objects is also very important. Besides using tablecloths, you can also try to match wood materials without bright paint. I think this is the most important part, because after reading many favorite cookbooks, I found that it is really important to find a good wooden table background, and the color of wood almost determines the overall picture. So I searched for wood for a long time, but I inquired about some handmade shops everywhere, but there was no particular favorite choice. Finally, I was in the kitchen utensils area of IKEA.

In fact, it only takes several angles to shoot food, and it is never absolute. I like to shoot the object in the center, first with a 9-degree banner composition, then with a 45-degree vertical composition, and finally with a plate touching one of the two sides of the picture, which is also my favorite viewing angle. Find your favorite angle, so that you don't have to worry all the time about shooting in the future. The composition with high similarity is always charming to the author. After all, the author is a person who loves the same picture very much.

if you want to capture the flavor of life in your heart, you can try to adjust the focus to EV+2 manually, so that the picture is a little out of focus, overexposed and has a different flavor.