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Why Indian food is hard to photograph well
Tomato curries, tandoori marinades, saffron sweets and yellow daals all live in the red and orange channels — the hardest to handle in food photography. Most photographers blow saturation; the curry ends up looking like ketchup.
The fix is shooting tethered, monitoring channel separation in real-time, and grading for app thumbnails first.
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What to brief
Hero dishes first — your top 5 most-ordered curries, your signature tandoori plate, your signature biryani. These photograph hardest and matter most.
Then sweets — kulfi, gulab jamun, jalebi. They need fast, careful lighting because they melt or lose shine quickly.
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