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In today’s article we will be going through food styling and storytelling—this is where the magic really happens. 

You’ve learned how to use your phone settings, light your shots, frame your composition and choose your camera angles… but this is the moment where your food photos start to feel like a story. And that’s what really connects with your audience.

In this next step of our food photography foundations, we’re going to talk about something that’s often overlooked but makes a huge difference: Camera angles. The angle you shoot from can transform the feel of an image, and today we’re focusing on one of the most used and misused angles in food photography: the flat lay (also known as an overhead shot).

Here’s the latest installment of my series for ckbk readers where I show you how to level up your food photos using just your phone, no fancy kit needed.

So far, we’ve covered Camera Settings and Lighting. Now, we’re moving on to Step 3: Composition— the way you frame and arrange your food to guide your viewer’s eye and create real visual impact.