How to take great food photos for Eat Like a Local Month

[GYours]

Hi @AnnaDickson

Some excellent advice - particularly like the idea when taking night shots of asking friends to shed some light on the problem 🙂

Cheers

Brian

[PaulPavlinovich]

Nice tips @AnnaDickson some other tips I'd add are

• During the day ask for a seat by a window and sit (generally) with your back to the window when you're shooting your food image
• At night you can carry a small light, there are a lot of natural soft LED based daylight colour temperature lights that will work very well
• Fill most of the frame with your food, but some dead space around it that isn't busy is important
• Brace your phone when you shoot because even during the day the shutter speed can be slow
• Think of your image as the # from a hashtag - put the main element on a join in the # where the lines cross - doesn't really matter which one but it gets a pleasing result - this is called the rule of thirds

[MariaBi]

Thanks @PaulPavlinovich for your insight and tips 😄 

[OSAMA]

Perfect tips @PaulPavlinovich 👍🎅😊

Thanks for sharing your experience with us 😉

[jmsaario]

Useful tips, thanks!

[LuisRG]

It's great to see such passion for food and photography 🙂

Don't forget, starting next Monday, to upload your breakfast pictures to your social channels using both hashtags #LocalGuides #onGoogleMaps. Google Maps will feature some on their own social channels (and that is huge!)

[DibyayanC]

@AnnaDickson

Thank you so much for these amazing tips.

Following is a food image that I took recently.

Item: Mutton Seekh Kabab

Restaurant: Royal Indian Hotel Private Limited

Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Google Map URL: https://www.google.co.in/maps/place/Royal+Indian+Hotel+Private+Limited/

 

[NarenChandra]

@DibyayanC @AnnaDickson @LuisRG @OSAMA @jmsaario

here is my odd food photograph , need to learn a lot .

thanks for the tips.

[DibyayanC]

@NarenChandra

Beautiful. Is this a Rajasthani Thali in the 2nd picture that you shared?

[HelloSamsonR]

Am not a good photographer, still learning from @AnnaDickson Tips. 😊😊😊. I just  had this nice meal, after close of work today. I don't know if the photography is okay😅. Tell me if i have to improve, I always welcome positive and negative feedback 😊😊.