5 Tips to Take the Most Amazing Food Pictures
4. Choose the right angle
Choosing the right angle for food photography is really vital. Most great food pictures are either those at the table or plate level, or top-angle. Top angle gives you the benefit of capturing other stylistic elements on the table as well, and make for perfect magazine or editorial style pictures. Plate level pictures have a more realistic charm to them. Depending on the kind of dish you want to click, choose your angle wisely.
5. Maintain neatness
Neatness is really important in food photography, otherwise it can make the dish as well as the picture look like a mess. Avoid spill over on the table cloth, and always clean the excess gravy or syrups from the sides and edges of the plates or bowls. Give a definite shape to your dish to make it look neat and interesting.
When trying to click pictures of food while you are on the go, and when you don’t exactly have high-end cameras or studios and lights at your disposal, you must always utilize natural light as much as you can. Make use of the props that are easily available to you at your restaurant table, and you can always move around a little here and there to get the right foregrounds and backgrounds. You may want to use flash in some indoor situations, but always try to minimize its stark effect with the help of tissues (translucent white ones).
