How to become king of Instagram. Tips food photographer Diana Sermon

Known Moscow food photographer Diane Sermon conducts workshops on food photography. Including using the iPhone. No special difference between shooting on the camera and the iPhone does not. Ultimately it all comes down to the ability to work with composition, color, light angle. "MakRadar" recorded an interview with Diana in which she spoke about food photography rules.

- How to take a meal in the dim light of the restaurant?

- I try to sit closer to the window. Most often this is enough. Most importantly - avoid artificial lighting. Because in our latitudes, a short daylight hours, except for the summer months, natural light is not enough, so I try not to 15.00 after the shoot.

- What are the characteristics of shooting a dark-colored dishes?

- the very food color to shoot is not affected, unless, of course, the food does not lie on a dark plate. Often use classical light dishes, so no matter what color the food.

- How to keep your iPhone when taking pictures of food?

- On the iPhone is removed in the main top. This is the optimal angle. Professionals often shoot at 90 and 60 degrees. It has become fashionable to take food from the top when there serving as spices, different subjects or shooting involving several dishes. The tendency not to take food and history. Do not just show a piece of meat on the plate, and try additional ways to emphasize the meat. For example, the put beside red sauce, to set off the dark meat color, or green or red vegetables. Next to put devices. If it's summer survey, it is appropriate to put a refreshing drink. You can put flowers. The eye wants diversity. That's the secret. :)

- How to work with the depth of field?

- Depth of field depends on how much will this picture. If you shoot for the internet, the most important artistic. In my opinion, beautifully produced images with blur. I really like to shoot against the light. If you shoot for the magazine, everything is different and stricter. Sharpness should be possible. Blur, backlight printing look like a marriage.

- On the iPhone, we can not take off with different depth of field?

- And such a problem and is not put. It is difficult to talk about the technical details of shooting on the iPhone. To the fore the beauty, the mood, the general atmosphere. After all applications have been created with filters to all of three seconds to process and publish in Instagram quickly.

- Shooting for three seconds, often leads to errors. What mistakes often make budding food photographers?

- It's all quite subjective. It depends on the individual taste. There are people who like the direction of the dark photo - dark background, a dark kitchen utensils, food and many dark shadows. Someone might say that this is marriage. But who would call it a masterpiece. But basically all the errors are because of the light. For example, in a dish it reflects light and gives yellowness. I try with artificial light not working. There are dishes that are just not photogenic. With such a meal is necessary to work further.

- I can not ask inphotogenic food. What kind of food?

- As a rule, this is something raguobraznoe. Manure, which can not see anything. Also, do not photogenic dish, topped with any meat sauces. But here too there are tricks. After all, we need to find something beautiful. Therefore it is possible to cut in a special way to eat carrots to the eye could grab an orange speck. shooting stew mushrooms do not need to cut, and put in its entirety. Not photogenic fried fish. As a rule, all covered with greenery. On top of the fish, you can put a sprig of rosemary or parsley. In general, the rule is - inphotogenic food is necessary to "revive."

- What are the tricks used by professional food photographers?

- I'm going to shoot prepare not as food, but as a subject for shooting. As a rule, it is a collaboration between stylist, chef and photographer. Most often use different compositions "Greenfinch": rosemary, parsley, mint and so on. Any bright objects, such as a beautiful green asparagus, cherry tomatoes on a branch. You can make a salad of tomatoes, cut back red onion, herbs and lay next to the main course. Often use olive oil or any other oil, to give the dish an appetizing luster.

If the photographer does not add anything to the dish on his shooting conditions, then use props. Various napkins, utensils. Often used layering method. For example, put a napkin, then a plate, then have a plate of food. The goal - to create layers that eye will be interesting to consider. When the eye gets to the plate, this is the fourth or fifth layer, and has already seen food is much nicer. It looks beautiful olives in a bowl, a large sea salt, juniper berries. Even banal glass of water with lemon and mint refreshing image. These are the secrets. But in fact there are many more. :)