1, light
For food shooting, it is very important to show texture and texture, and the most important factor is to have just the right light. Generally speaking, the light taken by food tends to be bright. With the help of transparent doors and windows, natural light can make food softer and fresher. If the light is asymmetrical, you can use a white reflector or paper towel to fill the light and put it opposite the light source to reflect the light to the food.
2, close-up local
To make food attractive enough, it is best to understand the attraction of ingredients. For example, the essence of a dish is sauce, and the characteristics of b dish are meat quality and cooking methods, so the best way to show its delicacy is to enlarge the part and aim at the essence area. When moving the camera position, you should also open the aperture, which can eliminate interference elements and make the line of sight more focused. "Color, fragrance" also came to my face.
Step 3 set the table
Different foods have their own appearance, and the shape of food has a lot to do with scenery, environment and light. The way of setting the plate is equivalent to the first "composition" before shooting, which belongs to the chef's composition. The shape, color and placement of food itself are the first impressions that affect appetite.
Who is the visual center? If there is only one staple food, there is no dispute. However, if there are several food dishes of almost equal size, we can put the commonly used food photography composition method on the dishes, refer to the composition of food, and imagine that the elements in the dishes are independent individuals, connecting lines and faces, and maintaining balance and symmetry in the picture, which can make the vision more comfortable.
There is a dynamic trend.
As mentioned earlier, food is different from still photography. It becomes dynamic because of the existence of "color, fragrance and taste". It is a more attractive trend that can make the picture elements flow, stimulate the taste buds. For example, just opened soda, the' bubbles' in the picture will stimulate thirst; Biting off half the food also makes people want to swallow it because of the sense of substitution.
5, with the help of ingredients or tableware
Props here refer to ingredients or tableware used for collocation, such as ginger, onion, garlic, red and green peppers, etc. In addition to seasoning, colorful small ingredients are props decorated with pictures, and the collision of colors greatly increases people's appetite;
In addition, it can also be matched with exquisite tableware such as chopsticks and spoons. Good-looking tableware can instantly enhance photos and food and make food literary. Chopsticks or spoons play the role of connecting food and mouth. When picking up/scooping up food, people want to swallow saliva and eat more than still soup.
Step 6 find the angle
Most food photos are taken indoors, and there are two main shooting angles: front shot and side shot. High-altitude photography is suitable when the dining table is exquisitely arranged and interesting, and there are many dishes. At this time, avoid the top light source that will cause hard light source; When shooting, the camera is parallel to the dish. Shooting at the right height, you can see all the food on the table, and a good meal can be seen at a glance.
Side shots can focus on the characteristics of food, and focusing on attractive areas can prioritize. When shooting from this angle, you should pay attention to the messy background and lower the lens appropriately, so the food will be more mouth-watering. Open the aperture to blur the background, but not too blurred, so that the food taken is not clear. Generally, the aperture of F2.8 is better.
7. Camera filter
Camera filter has been an essential drawing step for mobile phones to shoot delicious food. Unlike the gourmet camera App, camera filters can add filters to photos according to the scene later. Generally speaking, the setting of camera filter App represented by INS is universal, and it can be used in various occasions such as scenery, portrait and macro, and its applicability is slightly worse than that of special food retouching software.
Butter camera can not only replace the appropriate filter, but also apply font template conveniently.
Easy-to-use gourmet retouching apps include old-school apps such as gourmet colors and butter cameras. These softwares have built-in filter modes for rendering the atmosphere. Just click Select to get the filter that fits the food atmosphere. Butter cameras can also add templates of literary fonts. They are also very popular, and you can easily send stressed graphic photos to your circle of friends after loading.
8. Food camera
Although the universal camera filter looks good, it will lose a lot of photo details. Except for a few filters, most of them are not suitable for expressing the texture of food. In order to meet the needs of sharing food, food cameras represented by eating goods came into being.
What makes Foodie stand out is its filter. More than 20 kinds of filters have been customized for food. Look at the filter icons carefully, and they all represent some kind of food. For example, the representative food of "FR4 fresh" is berries, and the representative food of "CH X" is noodles. What food to shoot, what feelings you want to express, just choose the corresponding filter, which is very intuitive. After choosing the filter, you can adjust the percentage of the filter according to your specific needs to make the food look more delicious ~
Summary: Attractive food can not only stutter, but also take photos, and you can walk through any door in the future memory and return to the feeling of tasting at that time. Knowing the "attractive" moments of different foods, you will catch good-looking light and angles when shooting. Good food photos will make people have an appetite. Trying to enlarge the part and add warmth and high color saturation to the picture are all appetizing tips.