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Hi, I'm Emily or British Girl Bakes and I'm excited to share these 9 tips with you to
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dramatically improve your cake photos or any food photography. Let's start with the cheapest, easiest background option, a piece of paper. Place it flat, put
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your cake or other food up at the front edge of one of the long sides and use a box or
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something tall like a cake caddy to prop the back of the paper up. You'll have a uniform
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background with no seam or join or distractions so there's nowhere to look other than at your cake
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The most important aspect of photos is lighting. Good lighting can really make or break a photo
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For a free option, use natural light but arrange your setup at an angle so that the light isn't
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shining directly on it and that way you won't have to deal with shadows. If you want more
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control over your lighting, umbrella lights are really cheap, less than $50 for a set
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and you'll be able to create perfect lighting at any time of day with no shadows
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A photo of a pretty cake with a nice background and good lighting is great but to take it
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to the next level, add some props. You can use the ingredients of whatever you're taking
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a photo of or tools that you used to create it or show how you're going to serve it and
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enjoy it. As you're arranging your props, aim for a straight line across the shot. This guides
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your eyes from one side of the photo to the other and the different distances of each
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item from the camera will make the photo more interesting to look at
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Get messy! Drizzle some chocolate sauce, scatter some sprinkles, knock a bowl over or let some
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crumbs linger in your photo. Your photo will be more sensory and appealing. Adjust the
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focus of your photo. On a phone, you can do this with portrait mode so that the background
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is out of focus and draws much more attention to the subject of your photo. On a camera
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turn the f-stop to a number like 2.8 to push most of the background out of focus. I go
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into these adjustments in a lot of detail on my online course on Cake Photography Like
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a Pro. If you're enjoying these tips and want to dive deeper, check it out to learn
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everything you need to know to take eye-catching photos to grow your social media following
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attract more customers and impress your friends and family. I've put a discount code for the
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course with the link in the video description. Don't make the background brighter than the
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subject. To captivate people with your food, stick to neutral colours for the background
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and use bright pops of colour like small props or keep everything fairly neutral and
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just let the food be the star. To make your photos more eye-catching without distracting
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from your beautiful cakes, add some detail to the background. Instead of a plain coloured
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background with no texture, try photography backdrops like these ones by Replica Surfaces
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which you can mix and match to create really realistic scenes for your cakes without having
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to spend a lot of time setting the scene and staging the photo. You can even pour ingredients
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onto them and wipe them clean later for deliciously messy food shots. The link for these backdrops
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is in the video description. With these tips you'll be able to take photos that will stop
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anyone scrolling on Facebook or Instagram or Pinterest or nudge them towards that order
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or buy now button. Check out my online course on Cake Photography Like a Pro to learn more
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and the link is in the video description with a discount code. Thank you for watching
