I've been posting photos of what I eat on Instagram for a few weeks because I'm a massive gay, but have started to enjoy it and it's prompting me to improve how I eat and cook and up my plating skills which were basically non existent before
Has anyone else tried food photography or post their stuff on instagram, at any level?
Food plating & photography general
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everything about this is bad
More!!!
Is that just baked beans and sprouts/onions?
Yeah like I said, I'm absolute shit.
Haricot beans with spring onions and bean sprouts in a paprika & soy sauce
Funny thing is, these shitty dishes were some of my popular ones
I've found that cheat mode for Instagram is
>Elongated layers of fruit slices
>Anything like nuts and berries in greek yogurt or smooth porridges or the likes
>Soft flat light
>Pretentious use of scenery
>Low contrast, low saturation, high vibrance
>Enough mistakes to look non staged
>As close to raw food as you can get
Not being able to cook also seems to help
>Haricot beans with spring onions and bean sprouts in a paprika & soy sauce
Never seen something like that before. Neat idea.
Why do you do this anyway?
It started as snapping overhead shots of food for something to flesh out my Instagram, now it's mostly because it's constantly encouraging me to try new cooking techniques, learn plating and photography skills and more. I'm getting something out of it despite still clearly being a lazy shit-snapper
>General
Problem?