When many friends start to shoot food videos, they will first struggle with choosing cameras and lenses, but let’s start with the conclusion: cameras and lenses are actually secondary, and lighting equipment for food videos is the most important, with professional and good lighting To make a good video.

First of all, gourmet videos have a high requirement for color reproduction. The reason is very simple, because everyone knows the color of vegetables and meat. If there is a slight difference, everyone will feel that it is very conspicuous and not real enough. It cannot be moving, so first of all, professional photography-level lighting is necessary.

The best lighting is sunlight, which can accurately reproduce all colors. Just like there are two factions of professional photographers for food photography, there are also professional photographers for natural light photography, but most of them are female photographers. However, the disadvantage of natural light is that it is impossible to shoot around the clock. The brightness and softness of the light will change in uncertain weather, and the color temperature of sunlight in the morning and evening and at noon is also different. Therefore, it is best to use artificial light sources with high color rendering index to imitate natural light lighting. The color rendering index of all LED film and television lights is Ra≥96.

It is best to choose lighting with Bi-color temperature for food video shooting. For most audiences, warm color lighting can give food more pyrotechnic atmosphere, which is more warm and healing, so warm color light will be used more, but warm color Although the good performance for red, it is more miserable for green, so warm light is better for shooting meat dishes.

For cold dishes such as salads, pastries, and baked goods, it is better to use a white light of about 5500K. For some cold fruits or summer delicacies, you can properly adjust it to a cool color light to achieve a refreshing and pleasant picture effect.

Finally, it is recommended that each light needs a soft box, whether it is a lantern soft box or a rectangular soft box with four corners. The sulfuric acid paper is clamped with a shelf, so that the light can be softened to varying degrees by controlling the distance between the lamp and the sulfuric acid paper. Of course, this has certain requirements on the power of the light. Generally, small power are useless. It is best to use a professional video light power more than 100W. Combined with the performance mentioned above, I recommend NiceFoto LED-2000AⅡ, a 200W Bi-color temperature light.

If it is a general Chinese food shooting, you can use the warm light effect of LED-2000AⅡ more, for example, the color temperature of about 4500-3200K, the color temperature of this light can be adjusted freely from 3200K warm light to 6500K cold light, according to your food For the desired atmosphere, choose the appropriate light color temperature, so LED-2000AⅡ is very necessary for food video creators. And LED-2000AⅡ is almost the most cost-effective among the 200W Bi-color temperature professional photography lights in the whole network.