Food photography tips for bloggers
People nowadays love taking pictures of their food. Some post them online, some save them for remembrance, and some keep them for the aesthetics.
Everybody loves taking pictures of gorgeous-looking, mouth-watering food — even if you aren’t a food blogger. I am laso very eager to click photos of food and uploading on social media. The most important element of a good photo is the ability of thephotograph to communicate with the viewer.
If you're interested in starting a food blog or Instagram, there are some important tips for successful food photography that you should know. In this post I'm sharing just a few tips and tricks that I've picked up too.
Food photography tips:
1. Natural light-
A few rays of sunlight will transform your food photograph better than any Photoshop filter, but not all natural light is created equal.The sweet spot for natural lighting is an area of shade on a sunny day.
2. Flash-
The use of flash can create glare, giving an otherwise perfectly seared filet mignon an oily sheen, or a slice of birthday cake an animated, shiny look.
Flash can also create the confusing illusion of “floating food.”
3. Composition-
Look at any great food photograph and you’ll notice the main dish is rarely the only subject in frame. Food photographers style their images with background dishes, utensils, napkins, and other ingredients in order to draw the eye towards the main subject and add interest to a picture.
4. Food styling-
great food photography needs great food styling. You may not usually eat breakfast with a scatter of coconut flakes, pumpkin seeds, and hemp hearts elegantly draped beside your morning toast, but employing these types of stylistic choices is going to help draw people’s interest to the main subject in frame.
●Choose your best-looking plate, bowl, or serving dish.
●Don’t forget about cutlery.
●Use fresh ingredients as background details.
●A cloth napkin adds color and texture to an image.
●Don’t forget the garnish.
5. Establish a style-
Many successful food photographers have a signature food style that they stick to—rustic, minimal, modern. Your own individual food style develops when you actively select which plate to use, where to position your photograph, and which accessories to add to the frame.Once you establish how you want your photographs to look, work hard to make each image consistent with the next.
6. Consider extra equipment-
While extra equipment isn’t necessary to get the perfect food shot—especially if you plan to take your photos at the right time of day—investing in more gear can help guarantee you’re going to get a great shot without having to rely too much on the time of day or the weather.
》Tripod :
when professional food photographers shoot for high-profile recipe books and food magazines, they always have a tripod on deck. Even the smallest shake can be seen in large, high quality photographs, and with food photography, the more in-focus your subject is, the better.
》Bounce card :
A bounce card is a large white surface that can be propped up to reflect light back onto a subject, helping eliminate unwanted shadows
》Black Board :
If you want to remove light from an image, either to create a darker effect of make sure a photograph isn’t going to end up overexposed if you’re shooting in bright light conditions, you’re going to need a black board to absorb excess light.
》Artificial Lighting :
Because you can’t guarantee that an oversized window with sunlight streaming in will present itself every time you want to shoot, many professionals turn to artificial light.
7. Filters and editing-
many of us are already familiar with basic photo editing techniques and know software like Photoshop isn’t necessary to achieve a drool worthy picture.
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