All the techniques mentioned here are mobile phone shooting techniques, avoid SLR trolls!

Diagonal composition is the most commonly used composition method for taking food photos. This method is especially suitable for some food photos with a sense of extension. In photos with fewer subjects, the food subject is photographed along the diagonal. It makes the food look more fluid and visually extended, and the picture is full of fluidity;

In addition, for food elements with more subjects, shooting along the diagonal will make the photos more dynamic , does not appear dull.

Of course, food photos are basically taken from above, but what we are talking about here is the simple overhead photo method, which means that the background of the picture must be simple, simple, and simple. When there is only one subject in the picture, using an overhead shot to conceive will make the photo appear concise and make people feel very relaxed and comfortable. Many friends often go to Starbucks to drink coffee and take a few more pictures from time to time. However, I see many people pick up their mobile phones and take pictures of coffee or some desserts from the side without even thinking about it. The coffee they take looks like Taken at a roadside coffee stall, I have no feeling at all.

In fact, coffee shops like Starbucks are most suitable to use overhead shots to display food. Because the designs on the tabletops in this kind of coffee shop are very retro and elegant, the main background is naturally prepared for you. At this time, just use an overhead shot to take a cup of coffee or a dessert to make the photo more retro and elegant.

This shooting method is to arrange some delicacies side by side. It is recommended that there should be no more than five varieties of delicacies, which can easily cause visual fatigue. If it’s a light-colored plate, choose a dark background, and vice versa. Then place the juxtaposed plates at the bottom of the photo, leaving a large area of ??blank space above, so that people's vision will unconsciously see the subject.

This method is very similar to the overhead shooting method mentioned above. The difference is that the overhead shooting mentioned above is particularly suitable for some small subjects, while the overhead shooting here is suitable for close-up micro shots of some large subjects. If you want to use a micro-photo to show the color, aroma and taste of food, you can move your phone closer to the subject, then get even closer, and then only capture half of the subject, leaving the other half so that people who see the photo can appreciate it. Your delicious food creates endless reverie, half-hiding your face while holding the pipa.

Below, you can also use the half-covered surface of the same kind of food and diagonal lines to compose the picture, so that the subject of the food is clear in the picture, and guide the viewer to visually imagine the richness and deliciousness of the food.

Place three or three food subjects into any triangle, which can be an acute triangle, a right triangle, an equilateral triangle, or an oblique triangle. This method is also particularly suitable for taking food photos to make the food look beautiful. It looks well-proportioned. Each corner of the triangle can be the subject, or one corner is the subject and two corners are the subjects. The photo looks more clear-cut.

In addition to using the overhead view method to create a triangle composition, you can also use your mobile phone to take side shots of triangular compositions of food. If the background outside the subject is very cluttered, you can use Snapseed's lens blur later to achieve this kind of food. The background blur effect makes the subject of the photo more prominent.

The concept of contrast is a necessary technique in most artistic expressions, such as photography, painting, and calligraphy. Light and dark contrast, color contrast, size contrast, etc. are often used in photography, and this method is especially suitable for mobile phone shooting. As long as the pixels of the mobile phone camera are not very poor, you can use this method.

The most commonly used contrast rule when photographing food is color contrast. Red and green, black and white, yellow and red, etc., can all be mixed and matched to create stunning photos. When taking color contrast photos, it is best to take into account the proportion of the subject and the non-subject. The color of the subject must account for the majority, so that the picture can be balanced, in line with the aesthetics and highlight the subject.

Taking creative photos certainly requires imagination and creativity. Not everyone can do this. Only by taking a large number of food photos and constantly observing life and the world keenly can we forge witty imagination and creativity. Here are a few sets of creative photos by masters, and let yourself Come on and run!

The last one is the skill of adding ingredients to delicious food in the later stage of mobile phone. Nowadays, many mobile phone photo editing apps can add various borders and text to photos, such as Meitu Xiuxiu, snapseed, pixlr, and Butter Camera. Wait, but borders and text can’t be added randomly if you want. Add borders appropriately and not excessively, otherwise your gourmet elements will be overwhelmed by the borders.

For example, the following was taken at a roast duck restaurant in Beijing. Since the roast duck and the matching leaves on the plate were well arranged, I took the photo diagonally at that time. Later, I used a beautiful picture to add a It was suitable for gourmet food frames, and then I adjusted the style of the borders, and then used Butter Camera to add appropriate text. Finally, I completed the following photo of gourmet food, and the feeling of the taste on the tip of my tongue came out immediately.

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