Food bright and fresh: clean plates, greens and rich reds

Plates and linen land near white with a hint of warmth, herbs look picked this morning, and reds and yellows get a little extra depth. Blues stay back.

Groom seeing the bride for the first time in a garden, in True to camera Groom seeing the bride for the first time in a garden, in Food bright & fresh True to cameraFood bright & fresh

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Portrait of a woman in a charcoal coat, in Food bright & fresh
A portrait in even studio light
Couple dancing among sparklers at night, in Food bright & fresh
Sparklers on a night dance floor, under string lights
From the list of all 54 looks
What it doesWarm-neutral whites, fresh greens, rich reds and yellows, crisp texture
Good forMenus, recipes, wedding cakes and catering

When we'd reach for it

Restaurant and menu work, recipe shoots, the wedding cake and the catering table.

When we wouldn't

Moody dark-table food styling. This one wants light, not shadow.

The recipe

These are the settings stored in the look, drawn rather than listed. They sit on top of your camera's own colour and the exposure and white balance CullTone sets for each photo, so the same look lands a little differently on every frame.

Tone curve Dashed line: no change. Points are where the look bends the curve.
Colour grading No grading. The colour comes from the camera and the sliders.
  • Exposuremore
  • Contrastmore
  • Highlightsless
  • Shadowsmore
  • Warmthmore
  • Vibrancemore
  • Saturationmore
SlidersEach bar starts at the centre: right means more, left means less. The scale is CullTone's own, so it doesn't map one to one onto Lightroom's sliders.

Every look has a strength from 0 to 1.5. At 0 you get the plain camera-matched edit, at 1 the look as drawn here, and above 1 more of everything it does. More on reading curves in tone curves for photographers.

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