With summer just around the corner, what could be better than sipping a refreshing cocktail by the pool, at sunset on the beach or during an evening outdoors with friends, perhaps in the coolest club of the moment? Maybe just share the related photo. Samsung, with the help of Robi Tardellibarman of the Milanese clubs Dabass and Il Nemico, offers two recipes to be made at home for an enviable food photography.
Food photography: il cocktail Tardelli
The first cocktail bears the name of its creator, “Tardelli”. It is a sour, characterized by the acidic taste of lemon, which blends perfectly with gin, but with an extra touch: a few drops of ginger extract make it refreshing and at the same time slightly spicy and exotic.
Food photography: Salviamo rosa cocktail
“Let’s save pink”, on the other hand, combines the scent of rose liqueur with sage-based syrup, one of the most popular aromatic herbs for its fresh and relaxing aroma: by combining these two ingredients with tequila and soda, you will get an excellent thirst-quenching long drink. with intense herbaceous aromas.
Once the drinks have been prepared and before tasting them, it’s the perfect time to take a nice photo, ideal for sharing on social media. To capture the thousand vivid details and make the most of the beauty of the play of light that is created in the glass, just a few small tricks and your smartphone.
Food photography: Samsung and Torrisi’s five tips for taking breathtaking photos
Samsung e Nicola Torrisi, alias Befric, photography expert, who shares daily Tiktok videos and tutorials on how to take photos and record videos at their bestreveal 5 suggestions to allow even the less experienced to make these contents even more of quality and appreciated on social networks using any smartphone, but with some useful tricks for those who want to make the most of the photographic potential of Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultrathe latest addition to the Galaxy S series.
Equipped with a 200MP Adaptive Pixel sensor that can capture every moment with incredible precision and make it unique, it allows users to experiment with photography to achieve advanced level shotsable to enhance the thousand shades of color of cocktails and enrich your feed on social networks.
How to choose the framing to get advanced level shots?
As with any shot, you need to locate a well-defined subject. For this reason it is essential to choose the right detail to photograph; in addition to framing the entire drink, it’s useful capture a particular detail that makes it unique. How to choose it? Look for what fascinates you the most and focus on that. At Befric they enchant cocktails with ice sculpted as perfect cubes or transparent spheres, but it could be a drop of condensation that slips on the glass or a splash of aromas that falls into the cocktail being prepared. To capture these details you can take advantage of the Galaxy S23 ultra’s macro abilities, produce more than one shot and publish them in sequence as a carousel.
How to enhance a drink at night by making the most of the light sources available (for example candles or soft light)?
The function Nightography of Galaxy S23 allows you to shoot easily even with little light present in the premises, but there is a trick for this tool too. The brightest part of the image is the light source itself, and drinks are often transparent or nearly transparent, right? To make the most of it, it is possible to place the cocktail in front of the light source so that it covers it completely, and align the smartphone until every detail shines against the light. Depending on the light conditions you are in you can increase the glow effect lowering the exposure: you will completely isolate the cocktail from the rest of the image which will be underexposed. For this result you may need full control over the camera in PRO photo mode.
How to enrich the shot using the scenography elements (candles, centrepieces, decorations)?
Shadows and lights they create the nocturnal atmosphere we are looking for, but to add charm to the photo, we have to focus on the composition. For example, it is possible to arrange all the ingredients used for the preparation together with the drink directly on a surface that does not distract, perhaps rough with a homogeneous texture. Also place the goblet inside a scene and using it as an element of composition, rather than as a subject, can make an impression and help you tell a story.
How to enhance the background while maintaining the cocktail as the central element of the shot?
The harmony between foreground, subject and background is the key to a successful shot, but with a drink it might not be so simple, except for one element that works in our favor: the color. To enhance the background it is possible to choose one that suits the context and exploit its combination or contrast; there Video and Photo Pro modes allows you to change the white balance, and thus warm up or cool down the scene.
Another trick lies in the depth of field. If the background should be too rich in detail, risking distracting attention from the subject, it is good to remember that the closer you get to it, the greater the BOKEH effect will be, i.e. the blurred background.
How best to edit the shot in post-production?
We can’t talk about post-production without mentioning the app first Expert Raw: now integrated into the camera modes, it allows you to take a “raw” photo that may seem flat at first but which contains more details, giving us flexibility for targeted Post-production. It allows you to increase the sharpness of details, enhance the contrasts between lights, shadows and colors, eliminate distractions with a single touch of the S-Pen. It’s so easy that I sometimes even use it to correct photos taken for work with camera blur.