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How to take good photos of foods
by Lilian ·
If one is writing a food blog, the quality of the photos can make a huge difference. In fact, if your photos are nice, you can cheat on the content because people wil be too distracted by the photos to bother what you wrote. I had learnt through trial and errors and also copying the angles of many good food blogs from overseas and also cookbooks and food magazines.
Usually, I took my photos from the same spot in the living room, near the windows. I can’t afford to painstakingly compose the photos, set up tripod nor put any decorative things like a sprig of parsley or a slice of chillies to liven up the food because most of the time, everyone will be waiting for the food. Sometimes, I even have to smack off a few meddling little hands who tried to steal the food. Hahaha.
So, what I did is to switch my camera to super-macro mode, hold the plate of food and start snapping away furiously and hope that out of the tens of photos I took, one or two will look deceivingly, delicious.
As I am writing this post, I am slurping on this vanilla and peach flan (custard pudding). The funny thing is the food photo looks so much yummier than my container of mushy, milky pudding. So, I must say that I have attained a certain standard in food photography. (if only I have the time to set up the objects properly….)
Well, if you have a sudden urge to run out and buy yourself a can of peaches, I know I have done well. 
Read this Livingroom.org for serious tips on food photography.
July 1st, 2006 at 12:50 am
it’s always nice to put some fresh greens on your food and put that in focus. for example, if you wanna photograph ice cream, put some mints on it and put that in focus. if you wanna capture meehoon, put freshly chopped chilli on it, and focus on that.
also, do not capture the food in the middle. ’side’ it off, such that the food itself is off-centered. for example, if you are trying to capture a bowl of icekacang, focus on the jagung/ kacang (1st tip), and let one side of the ice kacang be cropped off, whereas the other side is fully shown with the bowl itself; it would mean that a perfect ice kacang will have its tip off-centered.