You will be disappointed when your food photography doesn’t produce the results you expect. I think that food is something no human can ignore. The first impression of food is crucial in determining the taste, influencing the food and producing it. Food photography is essential to making food look more delicious and creating a memorable experience for viewers.
Food photography should reflect the taste and flex of food, whether you are shooting for online food delivery apps or restaurant menu cards.
Humans are prone to mistakes. We will not allow our mistakes to become blunders.
To avoid making such mistakes when doing Food Photography, we need to look at the following points. We will be discussing some common mistakes as well as how to fix them.
- Issue:
You may not even realize the blurriness of your photo until you see it. This is when your camera shakes or your hands shiver.
Troubleshooting includes
- Hold your camera steadily. It is hard to keep a camera still for long periods of time. Your shoulder, wrists, and fingers will start moving. To avoid this, let’s look at some preventions.
- Use a tripod and remote to keep your camera completely stable while you shoot.
- Use a higher shutter speed. You will need to widen your aperture or move to a brighter area.
- Increase your ISO to reduce the amount of light needed (this will, however, decrease image quality).
- Issue:
The food photo can look dull if the colors aren’t true to the light.
Troubleshooting includes
Use the white balance control in your software to fix it if your plate appears too yellow, pink, or green when editing images! The colors come alive when the white balance has been calibrated properly. If you shoot your photos in RAW, it will be easier to correct the color balance later.
- Issue:
You may feel like your food photograph is lacking something. It will look less professional than other professional food photos. Your food photo may not seem to “pop” as much as professional food photos.
Troubleshooting includes
Experienced food photographers use lenses that narrow the depth of the field to help them focus on their subject. Then, using picture editing software, they adjust the contrast, sharpness, and levels of their photos. Some shots can be brought to life with a few small tweaks.
- Issue:
Focus incorrect. To draw attention to your work, you must first define the area you wish to be the focus of your viewers. If you’re shooting with a narrow or wide aperture, it is important to know where your focus will be.
Troubleshooting includes
Manually focus by zooming in on the area where you want the focus to go. Shoot tethered is ideal for commercial shoots. Zoom is an alternative.
- Issue:
Contaminated Tungsten may cause undesirable orangish highlights. This mistake is very difficult to correct in post-processing.
Troubleshooting includes
Switch off all lights except those that you use for shooting. You should also turn off any small lights that may reach your food or settings.
- Issue:
The wrong props in food photography can be a disaster. Props can distract the viewer’s attention from the food. Props that are out of place, do not fit your story or food, or are too loud can draw attention away from the dish.
Troubleshooting includes
- Use fewer props when taking food photos.
- Select props that match the overall style of your setting.
- Avoid brightly colored props.
- Issue:
Over-styling is not okay. Excess is bad. The food photo can look staged if it is over-styled.
Troubleshooting includes
- Think of odd numbers. This creates triangles, and triangles are beautiful.
- Sprinkle sugar, spices, crumbs, or floor on the food that you’re shooting.
- Place the knives, spoons, or forks in a different way, such as diagonally, rather than normal parallel placement.
- Do some research on other food photographers and their blogs to get ideas for stories. But remember that you must be original, so don’t copy anyone else’s work.
- Issue:
Try new things. Your favorite food photography setting may be the same for all types of shoots.
Imagine you are afraid to experiment with different light setups, dishes, perspectives, props, styling, compositions, etc. The result is a series of similar photos.
It is possible that you will end up with identical photos.
Troubleshooting includes
This is a simple problem to troubleshoot. Try out some new things before you’re too late.
