As if it wasn't hard enough trying to decide what to order when you go out for brunch – is it an eggs Benedict or a French toast kind of day? – the struggle of snagging an Insta-worthy snapshot before digging into your dish always seems to add to the bottomless anxiety. Because what's the point of brunch if you can't come out of it with the perfect portrait of an omelet?
Luckily, there are a ton of apps out there that take the stress out of beautifying your food snapshots before sharing them on the 'gram, some of which are even geared towards food specifically, like Evernote Food and Platter. But the newest app, Foodie, is going the extra mile to make sure that taking brunch pics takes almost as little effort as inhaling your waffle once your done styling it.
For starters, Foodie offers a ton of amazing filters, and while photo filters are nothing new – we barely recognize ourselves without a Valencia filter, anymore – the options on Foodie are all created and named specifically for different kinds of foods. If you're all about highlighting your foods texture, for example, go for a "crispy" or a "chewy" filter. You can also make your fruits and veggies pop with a "fresh" filter. More of a meat lover than a green freak? The "BBQ" filter might be more your style.
But the winning feature of Foodie, by far, is that it solves one of the most frustrating foodtography problems to date: angle. Since the prettiest food pictures have that flat-lay look that can only be achieved from a high angle, getting the perfect shot is a lot easier said than done—unless you're willing to climb up on a chair at your favorite restaurant (sometimes you have to suffer for your art, right?)
When you're taking a picture with the Foodie app, though, a yellow bar appears at the bottom of your screen to let you know when your phone is positioned just right to get the perfect overhead shot.
And while the app might not completely solve the aerial food photo dilemma–you still have to be able to see your screen to know if it's a good shot, which means you can only hold the phone so high – it definitely takes some of the guesswork out of the art form that is Instagramming brunch. Which means that you can spend a lot less time trying to perfect your post, and a lot more time experimenting with how much food you can work into a single bite.
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