The delicious theme of food critics is not food photography-it is respect for chefs to eat while it is hot!

As a food critic, when sending out food photos, some people who play photography may criticize that the composition and light of these food photos are far from up to standard. In fact, it's not just me. Recently, in some official WeChat accounts, photos taken by food critics have been criticized by people who play photography. However, is the delicious theme of food critics really "food photography"?

People who play photography basically know the importance of photography. A work without light and composition may not be called a "photographic work", but only a "photograph". However, is the delicious theme of food critics really on "food photography"?

Photography pays attention to light distribution, and light is the soul of photography. Without good-looking food photos, it will really lack a little attraction. But personally, the main idea of food critics should be food, followed by comments, and finally photography! In other words, it can be said that the most important theme of food critics is tasting food, followed by comments and photography. It's not that comments and photography are not important. Relatively speaking, it's more important to taste delicious food in the first place. Eating while it's hot is respect for the chef!

Some people may be biased towards "delicious food". Reading some new words, watching some Japanese advertisements, ordering a cup of Lahua Mocha in a petty bourgeoisie cafe in the corner of the city, or ordering a Provence stew in a French restaurant are all considered advanced. But this just "looks very advanced." Some people also like to take a giant's digital SLR in the restaurant and put a POSE pat on a barbecued pork bag for 10 minutes. They even "invented" using chopsticks to lift the steamed bread at both ends to show the full way of taking pictures, in order to make the photos look better and "cheat". Yes, this first impression looks really beautiful. However, when people stay away from tea, what customers and friends see is not what they look like in photos, nor the taste mentioned in food reviews. Is such a food review still meaningful? Is such a gourmet work still meaningful? It makes people think, as a food critic, is food photography really that important? -The food is cold!

A food critic who plays photography once sent such a passage in the official WeChat account:

"There are many photographers in my circle of friends, including famous artists. Of course, most of them are customized wild artists. I don't know when the private house caught fire. Teenagers with fierce eyes and full of hormones like to carry their cameras and join Wolf Warriors. But behind the camera, the erect genitals constitute the "story" of the photo. Holding a circular flash, the old mage and the young photographer despised the whole ghosting, while the Germans despised the Japanese. Take photos at the scene for three minutes, go home and fix the solution for two hours, export photos, sharpen the skin, liquefy, brighten your eyes, slim your waist and hold your chest out, so that all kinds of "poison, virtue, taste, teacher and learning" will come one after another ...

All this seems to be done in one go, with templates and routines. But watching too much can sometimes be annoying. Just like a business model wedding photo, every couple's photo is the same, just like a work with different heads ... Food should have its own characteristics, and it is attractive enough to have unique "comments and opinions" through language and words. It's not that every food critic has to provide photos of the perfect light layout, they have to be the same. Of course, it is not that it is not good to provide perfect food photography. It's just that food photography is not that important before tasting and commenting on food.

As a "food critic", I personally think it is necessary to distinguish the relationship between "food critic" and "food photographer". In the former, when hot food is served on the table, the first reaction should be the joint reaction of smell, vision and taste. Smell and taste, and there are corresponding descriptive words in your mind, which is the real first reaction of food critics. This is worthy of the title of chef, food and food critic. After all, we don't simply promote photos as a business, but use photos to promote "delicious" through language and words. The latter is commercialized, so we need to consider composition and lighting, and just concentrate on how to promote the "photos" it takes. Throughout the food reviews, only two common words "delicious" are used to prevaricate readers. The former may be a food critic; The latter can only be a food photographer, unable to approach the professional comment attitude of "food critics".