How top foodies express their love for food
As a food documentary that swept the nation, "A Bite of China" had many food lovers "licking the screen" with its relaxed, brisk narrative rhythm and exquisitely delicate visuals. The show's chief food consultant, Shen Hongfei, quoted the ancients: eating alone does not make you fat. And he joked that although he has always been fat, he does not like to eat alone. Recently, it was noticed that he often posts late-night food treats. Food is all about color, aroma, and taste; taste can only be experienced personally, but the visual impact can be shared with more people.
Yesterday was the Start of Autumn, and on the eve of the Start of Autumn, Shen Hongfei shared a dish of "June yellow crab stir-fried with edamame" on Weibo. A seemingly home-style plate of food, paired with yellow rice wine, feels delicious even through the lens. As the saying goes, nothing is fresher than June yellow. The so-called June yellow refers to young crabs, male "young crabs" that have just gone through their third molting, generally weighing around 2 liang, with a crisp outer shell, soft inner shell, strong fishy aroma, and plump meat. Edamame is also a seasonal dish, and the pairing is indeed "hardest to resist." With such a home-style dish, how do you shoot it with a texture full of appetite? Some clues can be found in the Huawei P9 phone used.
And it is not hard to find that most of the late-night treats Shen Hongfei posted on Weibo were taken with a Huawei P9, with each dish seeming to leap off the screen. Indeed, for ordinary food lovers, we certainly would not carry professional photography equipment to enjoy food, but before digging in, we always want to "bless" it, not only to keep a memento but also to share this beauty with more people. So the phone's shooting capability becomes especially important. Just like the food under Shen Hongfei's various lenses, what it conveys is not only the thing itself, but also a manifestation of a love for life.
One after another food photo shows Huawei P9's breakthrough in mobile photography, with the Leica dual camera being one of the highlights. Not only is it enhanced by Leica Summarit series lenses, but the two cameras also use a black-and-white plus color division-of-labor approach, merging the captured images into one through a unique algorithm engine. It can also be seen from the images that the food under the lens retains rich texture details while also having rich color expression, allowing Leica's classic "German flavor" to be reflected.
Food photography techniques also include the macro shooting we are familiar with, which is a commonly used method in everyday shooting. Macro can highlight the subject and blur the environment. On the P9, this appears as a new innovation in mobile photography - wide aperture. The operation is very simple, but the effect is very prominent. Compared with post-processing in other software, the P9's wide aperture blurs the background more naturally. Even if there is a slight deviation during shooting, you can refocus and adjust the aperture size in the finished photo.
Sharing food is probably what food lovers are most willing to do besides tasting food. The P9's breakthrough in mobile photography happens to satisfy this need of food lovers, helping these food enthusiasts express their love for food.