Creative photography is very challenging and when you’re targeting food images, you’ve to become trickier. This is the toughest type out there. Think of a painting job; always you need to start from a blank canvas; you’ve to create layer upon layer until you reach your destination. Same way, to get a great snap you also need to develop layers of stories. Remember every snap is an individual decision.

So unless your images become too stunning, it won’t create mouth-watering feelings in viewers’’ mind. Moreover, this industry needs to work artistic ways to make a connection between delicious food and buyer’s imaginary power.

To earn the required skill and to create stories behind each click, there are 10 pro tips and tricks.

Pick Steamed Food: What would be more appetizing than seeing fresh steam coming from the meals, right? Who won’t be having craving for that? Trust me; it’s the easiest way of all. But if you don’t keep your shutter at a minimum distance, there might be some chances to turn your image a bit blurred. To get more details, try to click fast. Test some before taking the final shot.

Choose The Freshest Angle: Have you personally seen any wrinkly or damaged food images? Would it intrigue your appetite? It would never. When you’re seeing any scarred angles if possible replace it immediately with a fresh one. But if there is any good angle which can cover the damaged one try that one.  Sometimes this is a common mistake even for a skilled photographer. Since you are taking a close snap, there are chances that even tiny mistakes or errors may be viewed. To remove this threat, take a close look before wasting your energy.

Maintain Balanced Lighting: This constraint can really hamper your outcome especially when you are talking steamed images. Well, to bring tasty texture, the key ingredient is lighting. A special tip is to setup light from behind. It’ll show the smoke prominently. Besides, plan for choosing the angle of light accordingly. If you set-up the light from the front, the snap will look flat. Remember you don’t need dramatic lighting to give a fancy look. To increase appealing to eyes, it’s really an important hack.

Decorate Your Hero: Play with the background and utilize empty spaces smartly. It’s a chance to tell more about your story. When you’re shooting, decorate the surroundings with related ingredients. Adding sauces, spices, oil or even raw ingredients so that these elements will indicate how the food was prepared. It’ll uphold and speaks the story behind cooking perfectly. Placing background and forefront ingredients will give in-depth pictures.

But Careful! Don’t mess-up with the main dish. Playing too much or putting irrelevant or extra light upon props may end up as a worst picture.

Keep Things Natural: While you need to decorate your object, there might have some ingredients which are unnecessary. It’s better to take away the irrelevant or stuffed components from surrounding. Or else the extra parts may distract audiences. A pro trick is to show a portion of crockery if it doesn’t look attractive. Or when you’re finalizing editing process, crop properly if you have any doubt. Particularly the modern name of this process is called as Clipping Path Service. In all alteration method, it is said as “The Less Is Better” when you don’t have any other copy.

Insertion of Proper Lines and Layers: When you’re replacing different ingredients in a single outline, there’re chances to create great stories. First, you need to imagine how you want your audience to look on the subject. Based on the viewing angle, you’ve to design the layers of objects. The technique is to use elements to draw the lines and layers. Professional photo takers are using this style from decade.

When shooting food using a mobile phone camera, maximize the surroundings by carefully placing tables, chairs, cupboards, etc to create straight lines in your composition. You can get the final shot that’s just right in post production with a free photo editing app like Instasize. Make those leading lines pop out by tweaking the brightness and contrast settings.

This way, you are basically leading your audience’s eyesight. Starting from utensils, you can take help of any related composites to make stairs of a line. Even when you are planning to take a snap from above, there are really great chances to show your creativity. Surely viewers will get some huge graphical images. This tip or method is always a winner. Besides, who doesn’t want to be a champion?

Show Steps of Cooking: If you have a chance, then show the before and after the snap of cooking images. The process may include chopping or live cooking. It would really help the visitors to understand the process. Even live cooking always builds thrust to eat the delicious food immediately. Some foods don’t look good after cooking, so this trick works well in that situation.

Let’s take an example; when you are taking a photograph of a green soup, it won’t demonstrate good look since all the ingredients are mixed. But the elements look nice before blending or during cooking time. So in such cases, it’s always better to show the before shots. Take a great cooking time image and impress your audience.

Take Pictures before Cooking Finishes: When your target is to create appetizing feeling in viewers’ mind, by showing the juicy foods and if you’ve to capture meats or vegetable, don’t wait till finishing. After removing from the heat, these foods lost the plump and juicy looks. To keep that view, remove the pot from stove a bit early and take photos ASAP.

Play with Camera Angle: Basically, when you are shooting, try different angles. This way you can show your creativity. Like: Taking a snap of edges of utensils, from overview etc. So try different ways than as usual. Give a new look to your visitors.

Maintain the Color: Sometimes, photographers struggle with holding the true color of the subject. Many image takers create a mess when they try with different props or background. The bright color of props can upstage real dish’s attention. When you are selecting objects to place surrounding the main meal try selecting natural tones. It’ll really pop the main dish against the background images.

So, technical proficiency isn’t all we think; there’s even more. You’ve to work on the stories and using these professional tips and tricks will really take your camera skills to next level. Try those 10 hacks and tell better stories.