
11. Food offers many color palettes and textures for photography.
If you are interested in making most food photography, make sure you have a surface to photograph your food. Acrylic ice cubes are useful as they look just like real ice cubes without them melting, and glass mason jars are incredibly versatile and aesthetically pleasing. Utilizing solid colors of plates, like black or white, can help focus on the actual food instead of a plate’s pattern. Avoid plastics, as they may look unappealing.

Group your photo themes by contrasting foods or grouping similar, monochromatic foods together. Consider your lighting source and background very carefully – you might want to familiarize yourself with the color wheel for this type of photography. It is essentially a practical theory of art and science that determines how colors will coordinate when combined. Familiarizing yourself with the sorts of color combinations (complementary, analogous, or monochromatic) can be of great help when determining what color palette to choose from in food photography.