Korea’s biggest holiday, Chuseok, is coming up. According to the predicted needs of the content depicting traditional food, this week’s article will cover from the points to keep in mind while styling Korean traditional food to its very moment.
The photoshoot involving food styling should combine various visual elements including background, plating, ingredients, and food to draw the viewers’ attention. Especially considering that Korean traditional food and its ingredients have deeper and darker hues than others, carrying them up with side dishes and garnishes should be a part of the important plan.
Food ingredients shots, which are conventionally added to the food styling shots, function to emphasize the devotion and details that are put into the food. Additionally, it could meet the needs of the people who are looking for images of just the ingredients! Try assorted compositions of fresh ingredients and the process of them being made into appetizing dishes to meet a broad range of needs.
Plating and background are considerably more sensitive to the trend. If you look into the series of photoshoots made by TongRo Images’ production team this year, 〈새해가 밝았습니다(A new year has begun)〉, 〈여름나기(Summertime)〉, 〈가을 한 상(A Feast of Autumn)〉, 〈김치톡톡(Kimchi-tok-tok)〉 for example, we can easily find out that achromatic or toned-down colored tableware and backgrounds are significantly more used due to the popularity of refined visual language.
Moreover, if we inspect them from the photographic point of view, we can find out that a forty-five-degree angle and the vertical ‘top view’ to capture both the details and the overall view are frequently selected with ‘natural-esque’ lighting. Consider these elements above to create a trendy food-styling photoshoot.
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