How to take FOOD PORN pictures
Raised in the middle of the Alps between cows and lakes and educated at HEC Lausanne, Maxime Chatillon is both the person you want working on Growth/Business Development for your company, and the person you want to be travelling with (always taking pictures of everything) Yes! He’s a photographer. Before coming to Foodetective, Max studied Management at HEC Lausanne. He would also like you to know that he’s the inventor of the “Getting out of the friend zone“ perfect for — category and certainly the best Wing-Man you could have while going out.
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Before I even start let’s just see how the urban dictionnary defines it:
Food Porn : taking mouthwatering pictures of delicious foods and proliferating them throughout various social media websites as status updates, thus tempting all those not even currently hungry into getting a food hard on and getting food-horny and blowing all of their heroic dieting efforts to hell.
Well that describes it pretty well. The goal is to get extra saucy, cheesy 🧀, buttery and have it stream down the food.
A few tips:
- Blur out a part of the food
- Shoot wide with a lot of plates
- Focus on the food 🔍
- Action 🎬
When you have blur in the picture ( by shooting with a high aperture ƒ2.8 or lower ) it immediately looks professional but also helps give the picture an eery look as if the food came straight out of heaven.
Shooting wide ( with a 28 mm or 35 mm lens ) and incorporating a large amount of delicious food in the shot is also an option. Consider shooting over the table.
Focus on the food and get close to it ! Nothing better to get personal… Pick up any details in the food and have it take the majority of the picture.
Get your hands dirty ! Aaaaand action: squish it, tear it apart, cut it, dig in it with a fork/spoon… Show us how it looks in the side. After all, it’s not always the outside that counts !
That’s all folks ! … You have no idea how hungry I am after writing this article.
As always thank you for taking the time to read this ! Tune in next week for another foodie article 🧡
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