method/step

1

vertical composition or horizontal composition

whether it is horizontal or vertical is a difficult problem. The great gods have their own opinions about the horizontal and vertical. There is no right or wrong, good or bad.

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The advantage of horizontal composition is that it is easy to be full of composition when shooting foods such as soup and liquid that can't have three-dimensional modeling, thus achieving subtraction composition in photography and expressing the theme more clearly. At the same time, the horizontal version of the picture will be wider, and the photos will show more gas field.

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The advantage of vertical composition is that the shape of most containers, such as bowls or plates, can only be filled with a part of the composition, so that there is room for adding some accessories to enrich the picture (such as tableware, tablecloths, flowers on the table, candles, a corner of the menu, or small objects we carry with us), thus presenting a more vivid dining atmosphere and further narrowing the distance between people and food.

4

Ma Ye himself is partial to vertical composition.

expand the long picture

method/step 2

1

light

please be sure to sit at the most exquisite table in the restaurant.

2

Fill the light, block the light and borrow the light

If you don't do these three things, it means that your food photos are only half finished.

A. Fill the light

Especially the natural light coming in from the window of the restaurant, because the restaurant environment is dark, the food photos taken at this time are usually bright on one side of the window, but the other side is dark and loses the details; At this time, you should be good at using everything around you that can reflect light to supplement the light in the dark.

For example, a white plate, a white tablecloth, a mirror on the screen of an iPad, and a partner in white clothes can reflect light when standing on the side, so as to supplement the light, and the dark part will be brightened immediately.

B. Blocking light

Generally, the lights in restaurants are near the top and the top. If we shoot from the top, the shadow of the mobile phone and the reflected light are easy to be blocked in the lens, and everything that can block the light spots is also used to block it, such as palms, menus, napkins and so on.

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Borrow light

Sometimes, in order to get a pure light source, we block the ambient light. At this time, the flashlight on our partner's mobile phone is the easiest light source for us to borrow. However, the light texture of the flashlight is tough, and translucent media such as napkins can be used to block the flashlight to achieve the effect of soft light. If it's not bright enough, you can borrow more mobile phones, and the effect is also wow.

4

About the background

A. Choosing a textured background can instantly enhance your food photos. In general, exquisite restaurants will have some decorations in addition to the dining table. Use these textured decorations (such as retro tables and cabinets) as the background, and your film will have temperament.

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overlapping containers of different sizes and textures, plus a table cloth, will also make your food photos unique.

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When the food is clamped up, it is easy to photograph the restaurant environment outside the table at this time because of the height change. Choose carefully and take simplicity, cleanliness and less interference as the standard. If the background is too messy, you can put plates, placemats, books, purses and so on behind the dishes as the background.