Eight Skills of Simply Shooting Food with Mobile Phone

Lead: Whether you go out to play depends on how well your food photos are taken. If everyone wants a bite, they must envy you. Let's see what shooting skills you have!

1. Choose food that is worth shooting and bright enough.

It sounds natural, but few people actually do it. Think about it, professional photographers will go to places worthy of taking pictures to take pictures and make compositions, and they will also take beautiful madou, but they rarely take ordinary ugly scenes and rarely take models that do not conform to the public aesthetic. This is also because photographers pay attention to material selection. They know that some things will not look good no matter how they are shot.

As far as shooting food is concerned, it is easy to shoot colorful food, such as Japanese seafood and sushi, or western-style cakes and afternoon tea, which are all colorful foods. When shooting a western-style buffet, you can also take pictures with a plate of colorful food.

2. Pay attention to the light source and use natural light.

The light source for shooting food is also important. Without light, there is no image, and the quality of light will also affect the color of photos. You will find that the color you see in the sun is the brightest and most saturated, and so is the food. In order to create an atmosphere, most restaurants use yellow light as the main lighting. But even if the color temperature is corrected, the light quality and color rendering are still far less than that of sunlight. Therefore, if you eat during the day, you might as well find a window seat or an open-air seat. The color of sunlight is still the richest and most saturated. However, the glass curtain wall of some buildings will cause color deviation, so pay attention to the white balance setting when shooting.

▲ Choose a window and shoot with natural light, you can get rich and saturated photos, but pay attention to the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor.

3. Leave the picture blank appropriately

Shooting food does not necessarily need to completely fill the picture with the subject. In fact, proper blank space can highlight the center of gravity of the photo and cause visual focus. For example, most food photos with beautiful layout leave a certain gap to make the picture more focused. The blank mentioned here does not mean pure white, but refers to things that are subjective and monotonous in composition, such as white plates, tablecloths, napkins and so on. It is best to use white plates, especially for western food, which usually uses larger plates. The white part of the plate can also be used as a reference to correct the white balance.

▲ If the picture is properly left blank, you can focus your vision on the key points.

4. Don't always want to photograph everything at once.

There are so many delicious foods in front of me that I really want to film them all, right? However, this is often unsightly for many reasons: the picture is too messy, the theme is unclear, the picture is unbalanced, it is difficult to get a clean composition, and the wide-angle lens of the mobile phone is too serious. Some people say that photography is the art of subtraction, which can also be used to confirm this view.

A "man-Han banquet" is not as good as the careful composition of every dish. Sometimes we should not only "shoot less" as far as possible, but also stop eating moderately. For example, the food in the disc is a good object to practice, because people's brains have a strong impression of round things. Even if a third of the circle is cut off, they can still imagine a complete circle. The food that stands out from the picture after cutting will give people a feeling of fullness.

5. More is beauty.

Quantitative aesthetics is applicable everywhere, as well as in the field of food. When shooting small and large quantities of food, you can choose layered, split-lens or overhead shooting to make the picture full of brightly colored food. Can be used in afternoon tea, cupcakes and other occasions.

6. Close-up shooting with shallow depth of field

The application of shallow depth of field in shooting food is absolutely beneficial. In addition to making people feel professional, it can also highlight the theme and create a sense of existence in front of food. Of course, it is not easy for a mobile phone to create a shallow depth of field, but as long as you pay attention to shooting food as close as possible, if you have the function of manual focusing, you can pull it to the nearest distance first, and then move the mobile phone to focus on the composition.

7. The white balance is correct

Wrong white balance setting is a mistake that many people will make, which will not only make food pale, but also make photos look bad at all. There are many ways to make photos look yellow, not only depending on whether the automatic white balance of the mobile phone itself is accurate, but also depending on the photos saved later. Of course, the most important thing is light source. Relying on natural light is the best way, try to take a white plate as a reference for the later period.

8. Unique theme and significance

"Not just taking pictures of food" is another meaning of taking pictures on mobile phones. When a picture has a meaningful theme, it can give food photos more meaning.

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