Lighting of cookbook photography

The direct hard light is less used in the lighting of shooting food, but the soft light with certain directionality is used. The softness of soft light depends on the surface condition of food. If the surface of food is rough, soft light and slightly hard light should generally be used. If the surface of food is smooth, it is necessary to use extremely soft light, so as to best show the texture of food. When lighting, we should pay attention to whether the brightness of the light is uniform, and make appropriate light supplement for the dark parts to avoid excessive contrast between light and dark. When it is necessary to outline the shape of the subject with side light, the side light should not be too strong, and a honeycomb should be installed in front of the floodlight to control the light field and not interfere with the main light.