
Discover how plating turns food into a culinary art and how iPhone photographs capture inspiring, refined images that evoke taste and the experience of sharing with the world.
Prepare to shoot with any phone camera, ensure good lighting via natural daylight or ambient lamps, and use a photo retouching app like Lightroom Mobile to develop a complete style.
Explore two-day food photography practice, mastering lighting, camera settings, angles, and composition at home, then adapt in a restaurant; compare casual and intentional shoots through theory, practice, and editing.
Master white balance for iPhone food photography by understanding kelvin temperature, auto white balance, tint shifts toward magenta or green, and applying on-set and post-processing adjustments.
Explore how light behaves in iPhone food photography, contrasting soft and harsh light, and learn to control shadows with bounce cards and soft boxes using both artificial and natural light.
Compare artificial light with natural light by using studio lamps to control white balance, fill, backlighting, and mood for professional food photography.
Harness natural light as a strong, free source for authentic food photos, with options for diffused soft light and insight into unpredictable weather and white balance shifts.
Explore symmetry and composition in food photography using the rule of thirds, eyelines, and empty space to guide the viewer’s eye and tell a visual story.
Learn how ISO, shutter speed, and aperture control light intake and exposure, balancing brightness and noise, depth of field, and motion blur, with iPhone simulations and portrait mode notes.
Master three essential iPhone food angles: overhead, the diner's point of view, and close-up detail shots, to keep the food in focus and convey mood and appetite.
Master styling for food photography by adding props, textures, and complementary colors, while removing distractions to keep the subject central and tell a story.
Cook at home and showcase your meals with iPhone food photography by embracing sunlight and the bright moments of daily life.
Learn to shoot at home with full control over lighting, background, textures, and props to elevate a summery salad. Explore overhead, POV, and close-up angles to tell the story.
Join a vegan, gluten-free cevapi preparation in a Bosnian dish, with the restaurant owner Aida inviting you into an exclusive behind-the-scenes kitchen experience.
Master restaurant food photography by optimizing natural light and simplifying backgrounds. Practice composing with the right angles, white balance, and manual settings for studio-quality iPhone shots.
Edit food photos with Lightroom mobile to maintain a naturalistic style and enhance what you captured in home and restaurant shoots, using soft lighting.
Learn to craft natural, restaurant-ready food photos on iPhone by cropping, balancing exposure, adjusting white balance, and applying color grading and presets for consistent, inviting edits.
Master the full edit of iPhone food photos by cropping and straightening with the rule of thirds, balancing exposure, and color grading with white balance and presets.
Turn chaotic restaurant and home food photos into Instagram-worthy images by shooting with intent, mastering balance, angles, white balance, color control, and removing distractions.
Capture a home-cooked meal with full control and editing. Then improvise a second shot with limited control, focusing on angles, composition, and removing distractions, using natural light.
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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!