Have you ever seen a food photo in black and white? Probably not. Food needs color! See which color scheme works particularly well.

Food photography does not work in black and white. If you now object that the world-famous photo “Pepper No. 29 by Edward Weston is very successful, we oppose that this is not a food photo, but a nude photo. The black and white peppers only became so famous because reminds her of two tightly embraced lovers.

A wonderful photo that looks at a lot Whet the appetite, but not paprika. Food needs color!

(Image: Edward Weston, “Pepper No. 30 “, 1936)

Our lead story with the tarte flambée lives from the colors – more precisely from the complementary contrast.

Background: Die Color circles Left: Modern red-green Blue-based color wheel, right: red-yellow-blue-based circle according to Goethe and Itten. Creative people still like to use the older Itten color wheel to determine color harmonies. Adobe’s color tool also uses this color wheel.

Depending on the color wheel, either the three colors red-green-blue or the colors red-yellow-blue are used. The two color circles differ from each other. If you choose two complementary colors via Photoshop’s color selector dialog via Hue + 180 Degrees, you end up with different values ​​than if you set “complementary” in the color themes.

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