Photography skills of natural food

Lead: As long as you look at the new book recommendation rack in the bookstore in front of your house, you will find that food photography has its own style. Food photography with clean pictures and elegant shapes is a great test for photography technology, which is very suitable for us to sharpen our still life shooting technology and lighting skills.

For the record, shooting food is not as simple as it seems. Marie-Louise Avery, a professional food photographer who has worked with many famous chefs such as Gordon Lanser and nigel lawson, gives the following advice to novices who are eager for food: The secret of food photography is to make the picture look as natural as possible, but it usually takes great efforts to really do this.

The light is soft and symmetrical, and the shadow is the taboo of food photography. The studio where I shoot food is transparent and has windows on three sides. If I have to shoot indoors with only one window, I will use curved mirrors to fill all sides of the food. ?

Soft light and simple background are two magic weapons of food photography, both of which are to make the picture look more natural.

Shooting skill

★ Be sure to keep the background in the picture simple and clean. Since it is food photography, we should focus on food and avoid visual interference.

★ One of the simplest lighting techniques is to set the main light source to 45? Put the corner behind the food and fill the light from the front with a reflector.

★ When shooting, focus on the highlights of the food and expose it, so that other parts are blurred and overexposed, forming a large depth of field effect and obtaining a bright and transparent picture effect.

★ Don't start taking pictures as soon as the plate is served. Adjust the arrangement of different scenes in the picture and choose a more expressive focus, such as the edge of a coffee cup or the decoration in tomato soup.