How to fix common mistakes in food photography
Incorrect Focusing
In order you make your viewers focus on the right part of the dish it is necessary to define the outline of the dish with the perfect focus. Whether you are clicking the picture using wide angle or narrow aperture you need to define your focus point.
The best to ensure focus is to use the zoom option to manually focus on the spot you want to click.
Not using fresh ingredients
Food photography is always on how the dish looks so it is important on how fresh ingredients are. So, buy fresh ingredients like lemon water for food that oxidize and change colour. Cold water is a great way to keep salads, greens and herbs fresh.
Overcooked
A numerous number of time pictures of food don’t come out great after they have been cooked this may be because they lose texture very easily or not look appetizing in the pictures. Just because it looks good in real life doesn’t mean the food will look good in pictures. It is important to pre-plan the dish and think beforehand on how the dish has to look that way the dish can be undercooked have the use of different ingredients or cooked separately, this way the dish can reach perfection when clicked for pictures.
Using wrong props
In food photography the main protagonist is the dish, so props help tell a story and countless times wrong props only help further the distraction from the dish to the viewer. The best way to maximize the effect of props is to tell a story with a dish which match the setting and aesthetic of the dish this way the props compliment the dish without causing further distraction. Avoid brightly coloured props and Red coloured props are very difficult to work with.
Over styling
Over styling sometimes can cause to much mess and cause an unnatural feel towards the viewers of the image. Some of the best food photos are natural and feel true to life. Of course, the pictures have been setup, but the viewers shouldn’t think it that way. Best way to make your food photos more natural is to make a bit of mess in the scenes, sprinkle some flour or sugar and have some spoons in the setting. Another method is using the odds, odds create triangles and triangles create beautiful compositions.