If you’re going to Instagram your food, you may as well do it right. Here’s how.

The Washington Post:

I have taken a few photos of taupe sandwiches. Blobby, beige plates of pasta. Drinks so dimly lit you couldn’t tell what they were. Scroll deep, all the way to the bottom of my Instagram, and you will see my shame.

Photographing your food — something more and more of us are doing these days — is frivolous and fun. But it can also be tricky. Just because something looks delicious in person doesn’t mean it will appear as enticing through your phone’s five-inch screen. It’s a problem that stymies even high-profile food celebrities: Martha Stewart, famously, was bad at photographing food for social media.

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Interestingly, a study in Psychological Science found that delaying one’s meal with a ritual — whether it’s prayer or photography — made people enjoy it more.

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