Delicious Macro Food Photography
When a group of girls meet up at a restaurant, there is no reason not to take some appetising shots first when delicate dishes and desserts are brought to the table. In addition to using the built-in filters in your camera to create food shots with a distinctive style, you can also get closer to your food and use a macro lens to capture one-of-a-kind photos that please the eyes and taste buds!
Super Macro Mode to Reveal the Details of Food
When dining in a crowded restaurant where space is limited, shooting the entire dish may end up including the messy environment in the composition. We can have a better result by capturing a feature food shot with a macro lens, which brings shallow depth of field for a blurry background and makes the subject itself more stand out. The compact EF-M 28mm f/3.5 Macro IS STM lens measures only 45.5mm in length and weighs only 130g, making it a perfect everyday lens for female users. Featuring a Super Macro Mode, this lens enables you to enlarge and emphasize the texture and subtle details of food for some amazing photo results, such as to capture the silky milk froth of coffee and cake decorations.
Use of Lighting to Create Tempting Colors
Mastering the use of lighting is a prerequisite to capturing mouth-watering food shots. When taking a feature shot of food, there are chances that the light to the subject is blocked by the lens because of the close distance between the two, resulting in unwanted shadow. Since we are in a restricted restaurant setting and we cannot ensure to get a table by the window for natural sunlight, EF-M 28mm f/3.5 Macro IS STM’s built-in Macro Lite can come in handy. You can adjust illumination manually for both left and right sides of the LED light to bring out the scrumptious glaze of food for a delicious result.
Accurate White Balance Setting to Reproduce Faithful Colors
The shooting distance determines the composition while the lighting determines the photo’s details. To capture delicious photos of food, white balance setting is another important factor. As we ususally take food shots in an indoor environment, the artificial lighting of the restaurant will affect largely on the photo’s white balance. We can imagine how a photo (and the appetite) is ruined when the golden deep-fried delicacies appear bluish in the photo. That is why we should always adjust the camera’s white balance setting according to the ambient lighting. For example, when shooting inside a room with soft yellow lighting, set the white balance to “Tungsten” to ensure faithful color reproduction.
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