Professional food photography - 'ah much?
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Greetings,
Our website is s
te and that is for a large part down to the fact that we have ste photos of our chef's (IMHO) fantastic looking (and tasting) food. Therefore, we're thinking about hiring a pro to spend a day taking photos of our food - presumably with the chef cooking it "to order" as it were specifically for the photo.
Before I waste any local pro's time I wondered whether anyone could give me a ball park figure of what we could expect to pay. I'm not sure how many photos we'd need be lets say that it'll sensibly be less than a dozen (shots of the pub would be nice too... but we're not exactly in the right season for that.)
We're in the South Bucks area if that helps.
Our website is s
te and that is for a large part down to the fact that we have ste photos of our chef's (IMHO) fantastic looking (and tasting) food. Therefore, we're thinking about hiring a pro to spend a day taking photos of our food - presumably with the chef cooking it "to order" as it were specifically for the photo.Before I waste any local pro's time I wondered whether anyone could give me a ball park figure of what we could expect to pay. I'm not sure how many photos we'd need be lets say that it'll sensibly be less than a dozen (shots of the pub would be nice too... but we're not exactly in the right season for that.)
We're in the South Bucks area if that helps.
Sounds fun but I'm too far away.
Real food photography has a kitchen next to the studio and uses stunts such as replacing ice cream with mashed potato, but if you have a small 'studio' set up in the restaurant it should be fine for purpose.
Prices will vary but will go on time more than number of photos I'd say.
Real food photography has a kitchen next to the studio and uses stunts such as replacing ice cream with mashed potato, but if you have a small 'studio' set up in the restaurant it should be fine for purpose.
Prices will vary but will go on time more than number of photos I'd say.
Yeah what Simpo said. Food photography is invariably just using things that aren't the advertised food to lie about the advertised food. 
Have a look at the viral McDonald's advert BTS video that floated around for a while.
That said, for the purposes of a menu a good photographer with a mini portable studio will suffice. Even just some good lighting and a decent in-restaurant setting could work.
Have a look at the viral McDonald's advert BTS video that floated around for a while.
That said, for the purposes of a menu a good photographer with a mini portable studio will suffice. Even just some good lighting and a decent in-restaurant setting could work.
Landlord - just a word of advice, I would ask any photographer you would consider hiring for examples of their FOOD photography, not just a general portfolio. It's very easy to take a technically good photo of food, IMO it's much more difficult to take a great, appealing and "tasty" photo of food.
Elderly said:
May I suggest that you update the menu part of your website; it's no longer 'Late Autumn' 
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OT Many years ago I nearly bought a house in The Lee called 'Owl's Hoot' , it had a tower!
The menu changes every six weeks - and will change to "Winter" in the first week of Jan. The menu has to span the transition from late autumn to early winter hence the name choice. 5-6 weeks ago it would have been strange calling the menu "Winter"... It's a menu, after all... not a calendar. .OT Many years ago I nearly bought a house in The Lee called 'Owl's Hoot' , it had a tower!
Don't know the house but I'm intrigued to find out. I'm sure one of our locals will know it!
Simpo Two said:
... and uses stunts such as replacing ice cream with mashed potato....
Showing your age old bean, that was back in the 60s and before, when the hot lights melted it. Not allowed now, you must shoot what's in the packet. But what they don't tell you is how a talented home economist opens 100 or so packets of your Vesta chow mein looking for the the perfect pea, piece of meet, noodle etc and then recreates the dish to make it look vaguely edible.... rather than the bowl of cat sick that you usually end up with....
Bacardi said:
Showing your age old bean, that was back in the 60s and before, when the hot lights melted it. Not allowed now, you must shoot what's in the packet. But what they don't tell you is how a talented home economist opens 100 or so packets of your Vesta chow mein looking for the the perfect pea, piece of meet, noodle etc and then recreates the dish to make it look vaguely edible.... rather than the bowl of cat sick that you usually end up with....
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