Is the article from the original food users of the media really taken by themselves? Or is there another channel?

Look at your intention from the media operation. If you put your heart into it, if you want to make a feature and keep doing it for a long time, many pictures are taken by media people themselves.

The cost of shooting delicious food is relatively low, and there is no need for special professional cameras, studios and lighting. You can take a beautiful close-up photo of local food with your own dining table, your own tableware and your own lighting. The shooting efficiency is much higher than that of scenery, portraits, documentaries and other themes, and the film production rate is also very high. This key depends on your creativity and your grasp of food, ingredients and food culture.

In fact, as long as you insist on long-term self-media originality, these photos are not taken for nothing. Slowly, when you form your own style, you can consider selling photos to a photo library for commercial use. Of course, you can also take some jobs of shooting and promoting delicious food.

If you don't plan to run food from the media for a long time, you can also spend money to buy food photos from commercial photo libraries, and there are many such photo libraries now.