How to Take Good Food Photos for Your Facebook

This is a guest post by Terry Ford. if you’re on Facebook a lot, then his tips for sharing photos that people will enjoy may be helpful to you… Thanks Terry!

If you love social networking with Facebook, you probably use it in a variety of ways. Everything you do on your site enables your friends to get a glimpse into your everyday life, interests and passions. You can chat with friends and relatives with ease, and share things that are important to you with them, and vice versa. Just scrolling through your newsfeed can bring you lots of interesting information, from valuable articles to cool photos to exciting gossip and news. It can also be boring sometimes, with people sharing lots of mundane things that you’d probably never think to ask about in the real world.

But besides the mundane, there are lots of common threads that connect us on Facebook. Most people love babies, so posts about children are well-loved. Talk about your kids or post some cute pictures, and you’re sure to get a lot of “likes.” Everyone loves a good movie or book, too, so share what you’re enjoying at the moment, and you’re bound to get some positive responses. Share your good news and people will congratulate you. If you talk about things that are upsetting you, you’ll get moral support and kind-hearted advice from people who care about you.

What’s another thing that everyone loves? Food! It’s become a trend to post pictures of our meal before we devour it on Facebook. Pictures of food and drink always get good responses. Post a picture of your food and you might here, “That looks delicious!” or “You’re making me hungry!” or “What’s the recipe?” But of course, the key here is to take a good picture of your food. You want it to appear as appetizing online as it is on your plate. Here are some tips to taking mouth-watering photos of your food for your Facebook. Keep in mind food bragging has a negative facet. Be careful and be considerate.

Use a Good Camera
Don’t even bother posting a blurry, dark picture of your food. It simply won’t look good or even be recognizable. The point is to showcase your good eats, not leave people guessing. Nothing is more frustrating than a picture on Facebook that we can barely make out, your food included.

Watch the Size
If you take a picture with your cell phone, don’t post it if it’s only going to appear as a tiny little box. These photos are even worse than blurry ones. They are so small we can’t even enjoy looking at it. It will hurt your friends’ eyes if they have to strain to see the details. Don’t post tiny thumbnail pictures. Not of your food, not ever.

Check the Background
When you take a picture of your food, make sure the rest of the table that will be showing looks nice. It’s all about presentation, here. We don’t want to see a dirty, balled-up napkin or lipstick-stained glass, too.

Eat Good Food
People want to see pictures of good food, not something that looks gross. Don’t take pictures of your meal at the local fast food joint. Go to a fancy restaurant and show off the beautiful plating and exotic meal.

Don’t Forget Your Drink
No one eats a meal without having a drink to go with it. Don’t leave out your beverages. Sometimes there is nothing more refreshing than the sight of an attractive Margarita complete with fruit slices and tiny umbrella. Delicious!

This and other useful social media info comes to you from Terry Ford. Terry enhances the quality and accuracy of her written work using Grammarly grammar checker.