iPhone Food Photography: The Ultimate Guide (Udemy.com)

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!