
Explore how food becomes a culinary art through plating and presentation, and learn how refined photographs inspire viewers and do justice to the food for sharing.
Prepare your phone camera, use Lightroom Mobile to edit, and rely on natural daylight as your key lighting and a photo retouching app to complete the course.
Learn how light and Kelvin temperature shape food photography, master white balance and tint, and adjust these settings on camera or in post to achieve consistent whites.
Explain the behavior of light by comparing soft versus harsh light through shadows, and show how bounce cards and white paper soften shadows in food photography.
discover how artificial lighting contrasts with natural light, using studio lamps, white balance at 5600 kelvin, and fill and backlighting to control softness and mood.
Master three essential angles for appealing food photos on iPhone: overhead, POV, and detail shots. Practice framing to highlight the food, minimize distractions, and evoke senses through perspective and composition.
Join Noir Collective to sharpen photography and filmmaking skills, learn to monetize your art, and start a creator business through an interactive newsletter that invites likes, shares, and comments.
DEMO CLASS
Class Overview
Making culinary art with an iPhone is fully possible and easy to do - once you know how. Food photography is more than just “taking a picture with your phone”. It’s lighting, color, composition, photo editing and color theory. With enough practice, you can do food photography which you can TASTE.
What You Will Learn
This course will teach you all the steps involved in making GOOD food photography. Not just the photos you’d take to send to friends but photos that are Instagram-worthy. The things you will learn include:
Proper exposure balance
Lighting using natural & artificial light
Composition techniques for flattering angles
Color theory and complementary colors
Prep work: How to “set the scene” for your food photos
Editing photos using Lightroom Mobile to really bring out the savory taste of food
Taking pictures at home as well as in restaurants, improvised.
Why Take This Class?
Food is an important aspect of our lives. It provides us with fuel for our bodies and is good for mental health. We eat at least 3 times a day and therefore should make the best of the situation and take pride in what we eat.
One way to express that is to take photos of what we eat. You should take this class if you want to take the best possible photos of your food, day in and day out.
Who Is This Class For?
This course is for the person who sees food as an art and would like to present it as such through photography. And if you’re anything like me, you also want food photography to be easy and accessible without the need of fancy, expensive cameras. So if you want to photograph your food by only using an iPhone - you’ve come to the right place.
Materials & Resources
iPhone or Android phone.
Lightroom Mobile app (free version works just fine).
Access to good natural light (windows) or basic artificial lights.
A good mood!