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Vecnos, a startup venture spun out of and funded by Ricoh, has unveiled its first product: an ultra-compact 360-degree camera. This intriguing product has a proprietary four-lens optical system, with three lenses on the side and one on the top, which

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Food photography has surged in popularity in recent years. Many restaurants now actually encourage diners to take shots, as a picture of a dish on Instagram that looks good enough to eat can open the door to potential new customers. However, in this

You don’t need lots of kit to take successful food photos, but it’s important to choose a quality camera and the right lenses for your subject. A full-frame body will give you a better depth of field, and handle noise more effectively in low light. I

While a pro food photographer might have to work in dark restaurants and need an exposure boost from artificial light sources, many of us can get away with using natural light – especially if we’re shooting at home and have control over the environme

Often the simplest lighting setups are the best for food: just natural window light falling on a plate of food can look very pleasing. Place your dishes on a table next to a large window, and move the plate around until there aren’t any awkward shado

A side from camera gear, food photography also requires you to acquire a whole host of non-photo-related accessories: props and backgrounds that will help you to stage attractive scenes. There’s no need to rush out and buy props straight away, though

Having a selection of backdrops or bases is key to making your portfolio of food shots look varied and fresh. Aside from shooting on your own natural textures, such as a wooden tabletop or chalk board, you could also invest in specialist backgrounds,

Even with the most beautiful lighting and composition, sloppy food styling will result in images that are less than appetising. Many pro photographers work with a food stylist who will prepare the food for a given shoot, but we don’t all have that lu

When framing a shot, consider how you’re using repetitive elements, leading lines, negative space and the classic rule of thirds. The composition needs to suit the subject – its shape, size, texture – and the mood you want to convey. For example, pla

Like framing, the shooting angle is a key compositional element to consider. Get it wrong and the image will look and feel ‘off’. There are three main camera angles, with slight variations of each, but what suits one dish won’t necessarily work for a

The 90-degree, overhead or ‘flatlay’ angle is popular largely due to Instagram. It allows you to fit several elements into a scene and shoot wider tablescapes, so it’s a good storytelling angle if you want lifestyle shots. As it eliminates depth, it

It’s important to fine-tune the focus of your food photographs, taking control over where the focal point is rather than letting autofocus functions make the decision for you. Your approach to focusing will depend partly on the angle you’re shooting

The natural light of day fades in the afternoon. Using a flashgun with a large softbox attached is a great way of replicating the window-light look, for consistent and bright lighting and to allow you to keep shooting for longer. Flash also has the a

You can replicate a window lighting setup with a flashgun and a large softbox. The bigger the softbox, the better: this will recreate the soft one-directional lighting coming through a window on an overcast day. Set up your food on a table so that yo

Mount your flashgun on a light stand, and extend it so that it’s pointing down at the food at a 45-degree angle. Put a radio trigger on the flashgun for remote control, attach the flashgun to the light stand, and begin with the flash power at 1/16th.

Pouring liquid, whether it’s maple syrup drizzled over pancakes or gravy on a roast dinner, is a surefire way to inject action into food photos and make them look even more delicious. Moving elements, such as steam from hot food, can also be captured

Remove any obvious distortion by going to Filter > Lens Correction and applying the right profile for your lens. If there’s no matching profile, use the Custom tab to transform the image perspective. Pay attention to the image’s histogram as you make

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The Underwater Photographer of the Year competition has announced the winners of its 2020 contest, with French photographer Greg Lecoeur landing the overall prize for his captivating image of crab-eater seals swimming beneath the iceberg on which the

Photographers specialising in street and travel are constantly on the move, and are often required to work quickly in order to capture fleeting moments. In these environments, conventional tripods often aren’t ideal: they can be cumbersome to transpo

The Quick Selection Tool is arguably the handiest selection tool Photoshop has to offer. It snaps to the edges of subjects or areas as you paint over them, enabling you to isolate part of an image – a sky, a person, or anything else you can think of

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