The real revolution in camera phones, though, is the ability to edit. Failing that you can use a shiny menu to reflect the restaurant's own lighting, or illuminate the scene yourself with an iPad.
Ideally, our teacher says, you want to take your pictures with natural, indirect light from a window. Robert Capa used to say: "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough," a maxim that seems more sensible here than at Omaha Beach.įrom these basics, things get more advanced. Equally, there's never any need to use zoom. You don't want your dinner to look like it's been snapped stumbling out of a nightclub by an unfeeling paparazzo. Not just because it's rude to the other diners, but because it's "the most horrible form of light". If this misuse of the glassware annoys some restaurateurs, they'll be pleased with his next tip: never, ever use flash. For those whose hands wobble he recommends propping the camera up on a wine glass - preferably an empty one. That blurriness may not just be camera shake. Local photographer Rafa Galán begins by pointing out something very obvious: first clean the camera lens. Joining the course in Grupo Gourmet's strikingly cool workshop (it looks more like the studio of some well-heeled New York indie band than a kitchen), I'm happy to find that it is pitched at my, very basic, level. Chef-patron María José San Román says that the worst thing about bloggers taking pictures in her restaurants is that, if they don't do a good job, or if they do it after eating half the food, the result looks terrible. However, in Alicante in Spain, the restaurant group Grupo Gourmet, which owns the much-praised Taberna del Gourmet and Monastrell restaurants, has started running a " Fotografia para foodies" course on the basis that, if people are going to take pictures, they might as well do it properly. An article on Esquire's blog provided a stern list of reasons why pausing for a photo shoot before eating is not OK, the most surreal being that it's an affront to the laws of thermodynamics (because it makes your food get cold), the most sensible being that your photos will probably be rubbish anyway. In New York some smaller establishments, such as Momofuku Ko, have banned photography. Do you snap your supper, or is it the height of bad manners?Īt the start of 2013 the debate on whether it's OK to take photographs of your food in restaurants seemed to swing towards a definite "no". Some restaurants have banned diners taking photographs of their dishes, while others are offering food photography workshops.
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