Photograph your dishes right · Training center

1

Get close until the dish fills the frame

The dish is the hero. Get close until it takes most of the picture, and keep the plate's whole rim inside the frame. A cropped plate wastes the kitchen's work.

Just right
The plate is whole, fills the frame, details visible.

Try again
Too many plates in one frame, and not one of them is whole or clear.

2

Light from your side, not from behind

Stand beside the window so light falls on the food from the side. Behind you, it shadows the plate; behind the plate, the shot goes dark. And no flash, ever. It kills the colours.

Just right
Soft, even light across the plate, colours as they really are.

Try again
Direct flash on the food, so the meat washes out and a hard shadow falls behind it.

3

Wipe the rim, clear the clutter

Two seconds before you shoot: wipe any sauce off the rim, and move forks, napkins and anything pointless out of the frame. A simple background keeps the food loud.

4

Shoot while the food is hot and whole

Shoot the plate the moment it is done, before anyone eats from it and before the cheese dries. This photo will drive every post this dish ever gets, so it deserves a minute.

5

One photo is enough

No studio, no photographer. One clear phone photo per dish, and Yafta does the rest: background, lighting and staging are all built on top of it.

And after you upload it? Every generated image is checked against your dish before it reaches you. If it drifts, we reject it ourselves and try again.

The three mistakes we see most

Photos lifted from delivery apps. Low quality, and not yours to use. Your own photo always beats them.

Close-range flash. It burns a white glare into the food and kills the colours.

Shooting after the plate was eaten from. The post reaches people who never tried you; let them see the dish whole.

Try it now

Open your library, pick a dish without a photo, and give it one.

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