The creation of smartphones with internet connection has totally changed the world of food sharing today. Everything can be shared instantaneously over social media, with pictures along with your own two cent words. Yes, now every menu comes with a picture and its own description from the foodie. After reading so much food blog, looking at so much foodie's Instagram and trying out a few myself, I am ready to share 5 foodie tips for better phone photography so that you can make all your followers drool while looking at the pictures your shared. Let's start making them hungry now!
1. Get the seat with the best lighting
Always try to get the seat with the best natural lighting for your photo. Nothing is worse than looking at photo of a food that you can't really tell what it really is. If you are going out to dine at night, make sure you and your buddies’ phones has a flash or else you will need to bring your own small little flash light to light up your food. They key is to make sure people can actually see what your food is.
2. Stick with one or two setting/filter
You don’t want your food to get cold by the time you finished snapping those photos. So stick with one or two setting or filter that can make your food look good. Make it your trademark setting/filter so that your followers can identify the photos posted to you. Avoid black and white (often food looks boring in B&W), HDR (too much color enhancement) and color toned base filter that can make your food look too bluish, greenish or yellowish.
3. Double take for Instagram
Instagram as we know it can only fit a square photo. Your normal food photo might needed to be crop when trying to upload to Instagram, and it could look very different from what you prefer from the beginning. Thus, if you are planning to post it in your Instagram, take another photo of your food and preferably zoom out a bit from the first shot in order to make it fit into Instagram like you want it to, or put everything closer to each other so that it would fit into square, or you can just use the Instagram camera and adjust the position of your food from there.
4. Up close and juicy
Don’t be afraid to go up close and juicy with your food. Take a close shot of your food with its juice oozing out of the meat or the dripping honey coat on top of the pancake. It’ll make your followers swallowing their saliva just by looking at it. Don't be afraid to cut open your food just to get that juice going. Your food might look boring as a whole. Unless you applied the next tip with a zest!
5. Be stylish
When it comes to food, often a meat is just a piece of meat, a veges are just some greenish vegetable and a dessert is just a fancy looking dessert. So how do you want to separate your photo of a same dish with the rest? Be freaking stylish about it! Use the elements around as props for your dish or you can always bring some of your own signature props to make it more personal.
All photos credits : Kay Kastum using a Motorola Razr XT910
Location: Grand Bluewave Hotel, Shah Alam
Daniel Chiam
He loves browsing around food blogs and look at peoples Instagram just to make himself craving for more food. During his free time he wished he can cook at home instead of going out for food hunt using his smartphone as his guide. He also knows someone that love Snowflake's green tea red bean. You can follow him on Instagram @room8five
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