/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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Good food photography is like 90% lighting.
Spend some time actually reading about that or watch some videos about it on Youtube.
Don't run out and buy a load of expensive gear just yet either. You probably have a desk map or two that you can mess around with while you learn. Use a sheet of paper to bounce the light etc. etc.
Bounce the flash on your camera or cameraphone too. Straight-on phone flash always looks horrid, especially for food pics, but you can get decent results by bouncing the light off some white cardboard or something to soften and diffuse it.
Pic related obviously doesn't work for a phone but it should give you an idea of what I'm talking about. He just tore open the empty pack and put it over the on-camera flash. The light bounces and still hits the subject but it's softer and more diffused, and it's coming from further away from the lens.
You know how photos taken with flash on the phone sometimes look like cheap CGI? That's because having the flash really close to the lens eliminates shadows. It looks weird.

Oh, and before you spend a day moving around desk lamps and cutting cardboard, try putting your food near a window and see how that works.

Also; never ever go to /p/. Not even for a quick look. Don't do it.