Introduction: Whether you have a good time out or not depends on how well you take photos of food. If you take a photo that makes everyone want to take a bite, they will definitely envy you. Let’s take a look at some of your photography skills.

Let’s do it! 1. Choosing food worth photographing and bright enough may sound like a matter of course, but few people actually do this.

Think about it, professional photographers will go to places worth taking pictures to take pictures and compose pictures, and they will also take pictures of relatively beautiful models, but they rarely take pictures of ordinary and ugly scenes, and they rarely take pictures of models that are not in line with public aesthetics.

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This is also because photographers pay attention to the selection of materials. They know that some things will not look good no matter how they are photographed.

From the perspective of photographing food, the easiest things to photograph are brightly colored foods, such as Japanese seafood donburi, chirashi sushi, Western pastries, afternoon tea, etc., which are all very colorful foods.

When photographing a Western-style buffet, you can also take photos with a plate of colorful food.

2. Pay attention to the light source and use natural light. The light source when photographing food is also very important. Without light, there will be no image, and the quality of the light will also affect the color of the photo.

You will definitely find that the colors of anything you see under sunlight are the most vivid and saturated, and the same goes for food.

In order to create an atmosphere, most restaurants generally use yellow-based lighting.

However, even if the color temperature is corrected, the light quality and color rendering are still far inferior to that of daylight.

Therefore, if you are dining during the day, you might as well look for a seat by the window or outdoors, as the colors illuminated by sunlight are the richest and most saturated.

However, the glass curtains of some buildings will cause color casts, so you need to pay attention to the white balance setting when shooting.

▲If you choose to shoot by a window and use natural light, you can get photos with bright and saturated colors, but you need to pay attention to the color temperature difference between indoor and outdoor.

3. Leave the frame appropriately blank. Photographing food does not necessarily require the subject to completely fill the frame. In fact, appropriate blank space can highlight the center of gravity of the photo and create visual focus.

For example, most of those food photos with beautiful layouts leave a certain amount of white space to make the picture more focused.

The white space mentioned here does not refer to pure white, but to things that are not the main subject and monotonous in the composition, such as white plates, tablecloths, napkins, etc.

White plates are the best to use, especially Western-style meals are usually served on larger plates, and the white part of the plate can also be used as a reference for correcting the white balance.

▲Leaving an appropriate blank space in the picture can actually focus the visual attention on the key points.

4. Don’t always want to take pictures of everything at once. There are so many delicious foods in front of you. You want to take pictures of them all, right? But this often does not necessarily make it look good. There are many reasons: the picture is too cluttered, the theme is unclear, the picture is unbalanced, and it is very confusing.

It is difficult to get a clean composition, the wide-angle lens of the mobile phone is too severe, etc.

Some people say that photography is the art of subtraction, which can also be used to prove this point of view.

A "Manchu-Han banquet" is better than a carefully composed picture of each plate of side dishes. Sometimes it is not only necessary to "take as few pictures" as possible, but also to cut off part of the food appropriately.

For example, food on a round plate is a good practice object, because the human brain has a strong impression of round things. Even if one-third of the circle is cut off from the picture, the person can still imagine a complete picture.

'Round, the food that highlights the picture after cropping will give people a feeling of being full.

5. Large quantity is beautiful. The aesthetics of quantity are applicable everywhere, and the same is true in food.

When photographing food that is not large in size but has a large quantity, you can choose to use layered, bokeh or overhead shots to include the food and fill the picture with brightly colored food.

It can be used in various occasions such as afternoon tea cakes, etc.

6. Shallow depth of field when photographing food at close range. The use of shallow depth of field is absolutely indispensable when photographing food. In addition to making people feel more professional, it can also highlight the subject and create a sense of presence when the food is right in front of you.

Of course, it is not easy to create a shallow depth of field for mobile phones, but just pay attention to shooting food as close as possible. If there is a manual focus function, you can first zoom to the closest distance, and then move the phone to frame and focus.

7. The white balance is correct. Wrong white balance setting is a mistake that many people make. It will not only make the food lose its color, but also make the photos look unpalatable.

There are many ways to make photos not look yellow. In addition to checking whether the automatic white balance of the phone itself is accurate, you can also save the photos in post-processing.