I’ve been going for quite a while. There are a wide range of abnormal photography “runs the show” that have been near and continue to restore that truly don’t bode well. Perhaps the most widely recognized myth is this standard that you ought to never utilize blue in your food photography.

Post Title Image Shrimp on a blue foundation with text Myth: Never Use The Color Blue Wrong!

This picture was taken for a supermarket customer some time back that STILL uses this picture to sell their delightful shrimp. There’s loads of blue shadings that look extraordinary with food.

 

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THIS “RULE”?

I accept this standard began in the 1970’s when food beauticians were called Home Economists. I think this turned into a standard from that time, when food photography had, will we say, much to be wanted! Simply view this post where I included some repulsive pictures from that time.

Let’s face it, there’s a ton of things from the 70’s that ought to have never occurred, and this standard was positively one of them.

There IS a ton of talk about this with the brain science of shading overall be that as it may. At the point when individuals talk about the best tones for eateries and food bundling, again and again I read that individuals make statements like this, “Blue is perhaps the most ghastly color with regards to food and will really draw individuals from eating.”

 

The individual who said that is a visual creator. I was stunned when I read that really and it made me roar with laughter. Then, at that point, she pivoted to say there are special cases for this and she has seen a few uses where it makes food look “new”. Please! Decide.

The thought is that mentally talking, blue can be a craving suppressant on the grounds that blue doesn’t exist normally in food (obviously aside from blueberries).

 

YOU JUST CAN’T MAKE THIS KIND OF GLOBAL STATEMENT LIKE THIS ABOUT A SINGLE COLOR BEING USED IN ALL FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY.

In my free facebook bunch about food photography, one of our individuals had been as of late told about this standard. There it is again reemerging! That she ought to never utilize blue in food photography. So I did a great gathering post to refute this, and it was wonderful.

We moved past 110 excellent food pictures on that one post, ALL USING THE COLOR BLUE. There are many shades of blue too obviously, and the photographs from the gathering individuals were truly excellent.

The objective when utilizing any tone in your food photography is to ensure that this shading will draw out the most incredible in the food. That is it. The motivation behind why blue looks so incredible with such countless food sources is that blue is a characteristic corresponding shading to numerous food sources.

There are a wide range of shades of blue, yet there are a wide range of tones that will not look great with each sort of food. You wanted to take a gander at each case contrastingly and check out the shade of the food to figure out what might look best with it.

 

Shading Wheel With Blog Logo

Reciprocal tones are colors that are on the contrary side of the shading wheel. Something contrary to blues and turquoises would be yellows, golds, and oranges.

Consider the number of food varieties have those tones!!! THIS is the reason blue can be so spectacular with food.

So we should separate this outwardly with pictures to show you models.

Picture of tangerines in a blue bowl on marble surface

 

I generally love the shadings orange and turquoise together. They praise each other impeccably. They are inverse sides of the shading wheel. Green consistently looks incredible with these shadings too on the grounds that green is comparable to (close to the shading on the shading wheel) with blue.

 

Picture of cherries in a white bowl on a blue table

Presently with the picture above we have two extremely impressive tones together. An exceptionally dark blue surface with radiant red cherries. Red and blue are not free tones. They are additionally not closely resembling colors either on the grounds that they don’t sit directly close to one another on the shading wheel. Red and blue are essential tones.

This picture above shows you how a shade or worth (how dull or light a shading is) can truly influence the relationship of the tones in a picture. The dull blue truly makes those red cherries pop.

Simultaneously, the brilliant peaches in the dish are practically equivalent to the green lettuce and they are likewise free to the blue/turquoise being utilized.

So the writing is on the wall! Only a couple of pictures to demonstrate that there are altogether shades of blue that can look astonishing with your food. You can check out restaurant consultants in India.

 

It is safe to say that you are in my free Facebook bunch yet? If not, you are truly passing up a major opportunity. I’m in that bunch each and every day responding to questions and assisting people with their food photography. We’re nearly at 5000 individuals and we’re truly particular with regards to who we let in.