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When presented with a beautiful plate of food in a restaurant, it seems a growing number of people share the same, irresistible urge: to take a photo of it, and post it online.

So popular is this trend to photograph your food, enforcing a camera ban.

But if you are going to do it, you might as well do it properly.

Here, professional restaurant and food photographer Paul Winch-Furness gives us his top five tips, in video, for taking photos of food.

Do you take photos of your food? Send us your best, or worst, shots. A selection will be published later.

Email: yourpics@bbc.co.uk

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