Diagonal composition is the most commonly used composition method for taking food photos. This method is especially suitable for some extended food photos. Shooting food objects diagonally in photos with fewer objects makes the food look smoother, visually extended and the picture full of fluency.
In addition, for food elements with more subjects, shooting along the diagonal will make the photos more dynamic and not dull.
Of course, food photos are basically taken from above, but what we are talking about here is the simple overhead method, that is, the background of the pictures taken must be concise, concise and concise again. When there is only one subject in the picture, it will make the picture look concise, and thinking by shooting down will make people feel very relaxed. Many friends often go to Starbucks for coffee and occasionally take more photos, but I see many people pick up their mobile phones and take some coffee or some desserts from the side without thinking. Drinking coffee is like drinking at a coffee stall on the side of the road, and there is no feeling.
In fact, in a coffee shop like Starbucks, taking photos from above is the most suitable way to display food. Because the desktop design of this coffee shop is very retro and elegant, the main background has been naturally prepared for you. At this time, just take a cup of coffee or a dessert and shoot it on your head, which will make the photo more retro and elegant.
This shooting method is to arrange some delicious foods side by side. It is suggested that there should be no more than five kinds of delicious food, which may easily cause visual fatigue. If it is a light-colored plate, choose a dark background, and vice versa. Then put the plates side by side at the bottom of the photo, leaving a large blank on it, so that people's vision will unconsciously see the subject.
This method is very similar to the above-mentioned overhead shot, but the difference is that the above-mentioned overhead shot is especially suitable for some small subjects, and the overhead shot here is suitable for micro-shooting some large subjects at close range. If you want to show the color and fragrance of food through micro-photography, you can make the mobile phone closer to the subject, then only take half of the subject and leave the other half, so that people who see this photo can have infinite reverie about your food, and still hide half of her face behind her guitar from us.
You can also use the diagonal of her half face and similar food hidden behind her guitar to make the main body of food in the picture clear and guide the viewer to visually imagine the richness and delicacy of food.
Put three or three kinds of food bodies into any triangle, which can be acute triangle, right triangle, regular triangle and oblique triangle. This method is also especially suitable for taking pictures of food, so that the food looks patchy. Each corner of a triangle can be the subject, or one corner can be the subject and two corners can be the subject. The photos look clearer.
In addition to using the overlooking method to compose the triangle, you can also use your mobile phone to take a side shot of the food with the triangle composition. If the background outside the subject is messy, you can use Snapseed's lens to blur the food background in the later stage, making the subject of the photo more prominent.
The concept of contrast is a necessary skill in most artistic forms such as photography, painting and calligraphy. Light-dark contrast, color contrast, size contrast and so on are all commonly used in photography, and this method is especially suitable for mobile phone shooting, as long as the camera pixels of mobile phones are not very slag, this method can be used.
Color contrast is the most commonly used contrast rule for shooting food. Red with green, black with white, yellow with red, etc. You can mix and match color photos. When shooting color contrast, it is best to take into account the proportion of subject and non-subject, and the color of subject must be in the majority, so as to keep the picture balanced, accord with aesthetics and highlight the subject.
Taking creative photos certainly requires imagination and creativity. Not everyone can do this. Only by taking a large number of food photos and constantly observing life and the world can you forge your witty imagination and creativity. Come and enjoy the creative photos of several groups of masters and let yourself run!
The last one is the skill of adding dishes to the mobile phone in the later stage. Nowadays, sometimes many mobile retouching apps can add various borders and words to photos, such as Meitu Xiu Xiu, snapseed, pixlr, butter camera and so on. But you can't just add borders and text if you want. The boundary should be appropriate and not excessive, otherwise your food elements will be submerged by the boundary.
For example, the following picture was taken in a roast duck restaurant in Beijing. Because the roast duck on the plate was well decorated with matching leaves, it was held obliquely at that time. Later, Mito Xiu Xiu added a border suitable for food, then adjusted the style of the border, and then added appropriate text with a butter camera. Finally, I finished the following gluttonous food map, and the taste on the tip of my tongue immediately came out.
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