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Take PRO Food Photos Using A Smartphone
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Find a good spot with lots of natural light; it is best to shoot near a window.
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Place your setting in the desired spot and get ready!
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Use a white reflector to catch more ligh and soften the shadows
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Make sure your food scene is fresh; add shiny elements like honey or oil for specular highlights
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Use an app like Lightroom or VSCO for more control over the settings
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In Lightroom, select PRO mode so you can play with the manual settings like with a pro camera
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Adjust the exposure to determine how much light or dark you want to capture.
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Set the right white balance so all the colors and tones in your photo will appear natural.
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To do so, measure the light on a plain white element with the WB picker.
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Manually select the desired area of focus on your scene using the focus tool. And shoot.
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Finally, you can post edit your photo in VSCO app which has a large range of interesting filters.
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And that’s it!
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