Tasty Destination - Food & Travel

If you think you need digital trickery to create awesome levitation photos, think again. Programs like Photoshop have given rise to a new wave of amazing, unbelievable pictures that amateurs and professionals alike can design with just a few button presses. But while digitally manipulating photography may have opened up a whole new world in terms of what photographers can do after taking the shot, there are plenty of good old-fashioned real-world tricks out there that professionals have been using for decades to make us see what they want us to see in their photographs. credits to lookbook.nu Want to know how you can use some of these low-tech magic in your own photos? Read on for seven tips that will make your photography soar (get it? – it’s a levitation joke) without you needing to shell out for expensive software.

Are you a food traveler? Do you feature your food excursions on a blog or in a diary? If so, taking photos of your meals and sharing them with your blog readers, friends or family is a great way to show them the foods you have enjoyed during your travels. There are a few things to keep in mind when taking pictures of food. Done the wrong way, the dish can look unappetizing and misleading. Done the right way, the dish can look so good you can taste it! Listed below are a few tips for taking great photos of food: 1. Focus: It is very important to keep every part of the food in focus and to shoot your photo at close range. You want the dish to look as realistic as possible, so if any part of the meal is out of focus, adjust the lighting and camera range until you get a good shot. If you have a digital SLR camera, and you really want to impress; turn off the automatic exposure setting on your camera and use a faster shutter speed (1/60th or 1/200th) coupled with a larger aperture (f/2 or...