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Course 027 · Lesson 07

Exposing the Perfect Plate: Light Metering and Composition in Food Photography

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Revealing Ingredients Vividly: Colour Saturation and Temperature

027.7 Lesson 07 of 08 3 quiz questions 1 assignment

Colour saturation in food photography serves one master: the appetite of the viewer. Over-saturated food photographs are immediately recognisable and immediately untrustworthy — the food looks artificial, the colours aggressive. Under-saturated food photographs are flat and uninviting. The target is accurate saturation: the level of colour richness that corresponds to how the food would appear to an ideal eye, in ideal light, at the moment it looked most beautiful.

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