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Light in the Food Photography is essentially the task of defining the volume of the dish or food to portray. In the post above mentioned the main objective of food photography is not one that show the product in a palatable , eat like giving. That is a task shared with the / The Home Economist (or stylist), which deals with the preparation and placement of the product and the photographer who has the task of lighting and framing the product.

Food Photography: The Volumes

Not the same light a steak dish a soup. What is the differentiating factor? The volume . In the first case, usually it’s volume is interesting to note, including the texture of the meat and juicy appearance. In contrast, in the case of soup, raw plate geometry and surface aspet it. Therefore in the first case we use a low angle, usually 45 ° to the horizontal, and if we use a soup encuandre zenith (orthogonal to the plane which supports the plate).

Lighting

Use a framing overhead and side lighting contrasted to highlight surface textures . We also use another flash at 45 °, diffused light (for example, a window of light from at least three or four times the diameter of the dish) which is responsible for lighting smoothly the rest of the dish . This flash is placed between 90 ° and 180 ° to above. In this way, we managed to light up the whole plate at the same time enhances the texture of the cream. Try to imagine how this dish would be if we used a frame at 45 degrees and you will notice the difference.

The Frame

We have seen the camera position and illumination of the dish of cream. Now we have to define the frame : that is, what elements define the object retratato and what not, so that first appear in the frame and the second does not appear. In the present example of the cream, the geometry of the depicted object (in this case, the circular plate) is key to understand the product. Imagine the same picture but with a frame-for example, that only shows square-cream without seeing the plate. Could not understand how the depicted object and lose its strength and appeal.

To the right is another example completely different (see other examples of photos of Food ): we want to highlight the volume and texture in this dish. We use a frame at 45 degrees and light from illuminating the edges of the object, helping to define the profile of it.

The other light source-side diffuse, serves to illuminate the whole at the same time creates soft shadows that define the volume of the object. As for the frame, in this case the target is not necessary to understand the object-is portrayed, it distracts attention from the important, and we use a short frame, with shallow depth of field to focus attention on the object central.

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