Many people are accustomed to using mobile phones to take pictures of food, but taking pictures of food with mobile phones also requires a lot of skills. Here we bring you the essential skills for taking pictures of food with mobile phones, let’s learn together.

1. Find the best light environment. In photography, light is naturally the most important. Without light, there will be no image. The brightness of the light will also affect the final color of the photo.

If the photo you took is not ideal, it is probably because there is insufficient light, resulting in the image being too dark and lacking in color.

At this time, you can do the following: ① Get close to a well-lit window, because the color of food is the most vivid and saturated under sunlight; ② Pay attention to the indoor lighting position and try to shoot in a brighter location.

2. Choose food photos that are worthy of photography and bright enough. As we all know, when the color of food is impactful, it will arouse your interest and imagination in food.

The selection of materials for photographing food is also a point that should be paid attention to.

From the perspective of photographing food, the easiest things to photograph are naturally brightly colored foods, such as various fruit salads, Japanese seafood and sushi, or Western pastries, afternoon tea, etc., which are all very colorful foods.

3. Using good utensils or table backgrounds to shoot food does not necessarily require the subject to completely fill the frame. In fact, appropriate white space or a good background can highlight the food itself.

The white space mentioned here does not refer to pure white, but to things that are not the main body of the composition and are monotonous, such as white plates, plaid tablecloths, napkins, etc. There are many things that can be used as backgrounds, the most common one is the table, with a beautiful mat on the wooden table

The tablecloth is also very good, simple and concise is the key point! It doesn’t need to be too gorgeous. We are shooting food, and we can’t let the background steal the protagonist of the food, so the simpler, the better.

4. The aesthetics of quantity and quantity work everywhere, and the same applies to 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.

5. Close-up photography with shallow depth of field. Shallow depth of field is definitely very useful when photographing food. In addition to making people feel more professional, it can also highlight the subject and create a sense of presence as if 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.

The above are the essential tips for photographing food on camera. I hope it will be helpful to you.