Tips for Taking Great Photos
Digital cameras have given us all the chance to be better photographers.
The ability to take many shots without additional cost allows us many chances but also the opportunity to learn.
Use as Much Natural Light as Possible
A camera flash will actually distort food pictures more often than it will enhance them. Try moving your dish into a well-lit area and have a portable lamp close at hand to prop above the dish.
Stablize Your Camera
Using a tripod, or proping your camera on a high-back chair will help reduce the photo's blurriness.
Carefully Choose the Best Angle
Examine the shape and features of your dish, to determine whether it looks best from overhead or from a side angle. Often, taking a shot from directly above doesn't highlight the dish's more appealling features.
Get in Close
Zoom in so the dish fills as much of the picture as possible. This will show clearly to the viewier the details of what the dish should look like.
Garnish to Enhance Color.
Adding chopped parsley gives spaghetti green specks that bring out the red color of the sauce. Adding a lemon wedge to a glass of iced tea takes a drab glass of brown liquid and gives it some juice. Or, consider ladling a sauce on the plate underneath the food, or over the items on the plate.
Choose the Dish
Place the food on a dish which will enhance the food's color. Obviously, placing a green salad on a green plate will create an amorphous lump in a photograph. Consider a yellow dish to bring out the green of spinach leaves, or a red dish to bring out the green of the lighter romaine leaves.
Choose the Setting
It's important to place your dish in a setting which will enhance the dish's overall appearance. Place the dish on a flat-colored background, such as a uni-colored table cloth or table surface. If taking a picture from a side-angle, make sure the picture's background will not distort the food in the foreground.
