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.

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.

Everything is included in the price you see. We style and shoot it, edit it, and hand over the usage rights. No food-stylist surcharge, no per-image upsell.

Hero Set
$499
Around 6 signature dishes. Half day on location. Edited finals, three style looks on hero shots, web and social usage rights included.
Menu Refresh
$999
Around 12 to 15 dishes. Edited finals, style variants, and usage rights included.
Full Menu
$2,100
Around 25 to 30 dishes. Edited finals, style variants, and usage rights included.
Big Menu
$3,375
Around 40 to 50 dishes. Edited finals, style variants, and usage rights included.

Extra dishes are $75 each. Every shoot includes on-site iPad review so you approve the look before we move on.

Founding clients

We are building our name in Atlanta, so the first five food businesses book at founding rates: 15% off the prices above. In return we ask for a short testimonial, a Google review, and permission to show the work on our site and in our marketing.

Founding Menu Refresh, normally $999, founding rate $849.

Request Pricing

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.

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

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