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The Lantern Festival is coming on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. How to take a good-looking photo of Yuanxiao / tangyuan? today, I would like to share with you some shooting tips. You can also directly apply these methods to shoot other delicacies.

4 steps to take pictures of food:

Determine the subject of the shoot

Determine the photo background (environment)

Choose collocation elements to enrich the picture

Optimize the layout according to the principle of composition

According to the principle of composition, the subject must be prominent when shooting, and the companion should also choose something related to the shooting theme. Yuanxiao is food, and we can choose tableware such as spoons and chopsticks. You can also choose other foods and ingredients to match. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is not over yet, you can also choose some festive items to match.

In the composition, the central composition method can be used to arrange the main body in the middle and occupy a large amount of space. Trigonometric composition can also be used to make the subject and companion distributed in a triangle. Diagonal composition can also be used to make all elements distributed according to diagonal / diagonal lines to avoid stiff images.

If you really can't find the right matching element, just shoot the simplest one, a subject plus a background.

When shooting food such as Yuanxiao and tangyuan, there are three commonly used shooting angles. 90 °down from the height, 45 °oblique, horizontal angle of view.

If you look down from above, you can see the whole picture of the food clearly. As Yuanxiao is usually placed in a bowl, the flat racket may be blocked, so it is more suitable to shoot from high places.

If you want to use the flat beat angle, make sure you can see Yuanxiao. This is difficult, so this kind of shooting angle is not commonly used.

When choosing the background 90 °top shot, the background is the table for Yuanxiao, which can be laid directly with a piece of solid color paper as the background, or you can choose a board with a sense of texture.

To go a step further, you can put a tray on the table to make the set more layered. You can also turn on the cycle mode and put a silk scarf on the tray.

When you take a flat shot, you can see not only the desktop, but also the things behind, which requires a higher level of background.

Here are a few tips for choosing a background:

The simplest is a solid color background, such as mysterious pure black and bright pure white.

Further, you can choose a background that is rich in characteristics and consistent with the theme, but it must not be too messy, it can be blurred if necessary, and there is a level of distance and proximity.

When there are lines in a complex background, it is best to have vertical or horizontal lines, which appear neat and will not be too messy.

Make sure the light is bright and soft when shooting and later shooting. Bright light can make the food look white and look more delicate. Soft light makes it easier to control exposure and does not produce thick shadows.

You can shoot with natural light by the window. You can also put a few lamps on the edge of the food. If the light is too strong, soften it with a layer of tulle.

Later adjustment is also very simple, but also in order to make the food brighter, we can increase the brightness, shadow value, increase the color saturation, can have a good effect.

There is also an important link in the later stage: reduction. Shoot food is most afraid of loose composition, cut off unnecessary elements, can let the viewer focus on the main body, so as to make up for the lack of composition.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: photography Research Society (ID:shoujiPhotography), by Zhang Xiaozhang.

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