Service 01Food & Restaurant

Food photography that makes people hungry.

Made for your website, your listings, and every delivery app, so your food looks just as good on a phone as it does on the plate.

Lamb chops plated with floral styling — editorial food photography
Dishes
Aden chicken mandi quarter plate — restaurant food photography
Food
Citrus drink over ice with dried orange garnish, beverage photography
Drinks
Who this is for

Restaurants, cafés, and food brands who want their food to look as good as it tastes.

A guest decides whether to order from your listing in a few seconds, and a diner decides whether to walk in from a single delivery thumbnail. Both moments are visual, and we want them working in your favor.

When the photos are flat, people quietly scroll past. When they are warm and consistent, your food earns the order. Good photography is one of the simplest ways to look after your menu, and it keeps working for you everywhere people find you.

What's delivered.

Everything below sits inside the project scope agreed during discovery. Add-ons (advanced retouching, lifestyle, BTS video) are quoted separately.

  • 01
    Food photography
    Each dish photographed clean, with consistent grading across the set, prepared for both print and screen.
  • 02
    Website imagery
    Hero shots, section imagery, and product cards sized for your CMS or e-commerce build.
  • 03
    Delivery channel assets
    Delivery app listings sized and cropped for square, landscape, and badge-safe placements.
  • 04
    Online ordering
    Item-by-item shots prepared for the small tile sizes, where one clear photo makes all the difference.
  • 05
    Social campaign
    Hero and supporting frames for launch, seasonal updates, or feature dishes.
  • 06
    Brand consistency
    A grading and styling reference so your team's phone shots match the gallery between sessions.

Recent work.

Recent sets from on-location shoots across several Atlanta kitchens, every dish plated by the kitchen and photographed in real time.

IBU · Indonesian kitchen

Across the food.

Dishes, sides, and spreads from recent restaurant shoots, held to the same standard so your brand reads as one.

The craft.

How a dish becomes a photograph. Most shoots wrap in a half or full day on location, with the kitchen plating in real time.

Aden lamb haneeth platter reviewed before the shoot — restaurant food photography
01

We do our homework before we show up

Every dish gets researched before the shoot. We pre-request the menu, learn what each plate is supposed to be, and walk in with a plan instead of figuring it out on the fly. For sample shoots, we align with the chef on exactly what we are capturing first.

Nasi padang plated for the camera — Indonesian restaurant food photography
02

We plate it ourselves

We ask the kitchen for one thing: keep every element separate. Then we build the plate, because the chef plates to serve and we plate to photograph. Those are not the same craft. We bring our own plating too, French plates in three sizes, so the dish sits on a surface chosen for the camera, not the table.

Indonesian siomay dumplings staged with peanut sauce and lime — food photography
03

Food modeling, down to the millimeter

This is where most food photos are won or lost. We color and condition each element for the lens, then stage every component deliberately, with a ruler. Placement, spacing, and balance are measured, not guessed. The plate you see is real, edible food, styled to look its best. No fakery.

Aden fahsa in a stone bowl lit to show texture and gloss — restaurant food photography
04

We light the dish, not the room

The plated dish goes onto a clean backdrop, and we build the light from scratch for that specific food, shaping texture, gloss, and depth until the shot reads the way the dish tastes.

Aden shawarma combo framed on the shooting stand — restaurant food photography
05

The angle is a decision, never a default

We shoot free-hand first to find the frame, then lock it on the stand and work the angle until the dish has real depth and presence on the plate.

Fried spring rolls reviewed frame by frame — food photography
06

You see it as it happens

Our iPad is on set the whole time, so you review every shot with us, right there, before we move on. For each dish we shoot around ten frames and hand-pick the three strongest to carry into the edit, where they are graded in Lightroom Classic in the style you choose.

Simple, fair pricing.

Choose the photos your menu needs, then add moving pictures for your restaurant screens. Photo shoots have a $499 setup fee, with package savings shown below.

Food photography

Setup Fee

$499
Per photo shoot
Planning, styling direction, and on-location lighting setup. Added once to your chosen photo package.

Menu Refresher

$1,000
12 edited photos
Save $200Package value $1,200
Refresh your signature dishes, new additions, and seasonal favorites. Color grading, web and menu exports, and usage rights included.
$1,499 including setup

Full Menu

$2,100
25 edited photos
Save $400Package value $2,500
A consistent set across your menu, from mains and sides to drinks. Color grading, web and menu exports, and usage rights included.
$2,599 including setup

Photo package prices already include the savings shown. Every shoot includes on-site iPad review so you approve the look before we move on. Need more photos? Ask us for a custom quote.

Booking is a 30 percent deposit. A $100 hold reserves your date. Up to three revisions per photo plus one retake. Full usage rights transfer on final payment.

Moving pictures, made for your screens.

Put your dishes in motion on menu boards, counter displays, and dining-room screens. We work from your approved photos, with gentle pans, zooms, and branded transitions that keep the food true to the photograph.

Screen Highlights

$750
6 motion loops
Save $1506 individual loops: $900
Spotlight your bestsellers and specials. Six silent, repeating clips, 8 to 12 seconds each, with optional dish names and prices.

Screen Collection

$1,400
12 motion loops
Save $40012 individual loops: $1,800
Build a wider rotation of dishes, drinks, and seasonal offers. Twelve silent, repeating clips, 8 to 12 seconds each, with optional dish names and prices.

Both packages include a style preview, two consolidated revision rounds, and 1080p MP4 files in one agreed screen orientation. Receive individual clips plus one combined playlist video, ready for a compatible screen player. Additional loops are $150 each.

No photography setup fee when we use existing approved photos. New photography is priced separately above. Screen hardware, installation, player subscriptions, and later content updates are separate.

Screen package prices already include the savings shown. Booking is a 30 percent deposit, with full usage rights on final payment.

Have a food launch, relaunch, or seasonal update coming up?

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