Shooting In A Restaurant: A Food Photographer's Perspective
Are you affected by smell or visuals?
As a food photographer, I love the smell of food cooking and capturing how delicious a dish looks through a picture.
The aim is to make the food look good enough to eat so that any food establishment has visuals to bring more customers through their door.
Here are some tips to use:
Shoot near the window, using natural lighting as this will enhance the quality of the food photographs.
To capture the essence of the location, use the deco as a guide for props and placement.
Position the food and props within a triangle composition and use hands to add a sense of communal eating.
Use a napkin or tissue to clean glasses, plates and remove unnecessary clutter from each framed shot.
After shooting the food I would suggest photographing the restaurant at a busy time. This will capture the atmosphere and give the impression of a popular restaurant. This technique is especially advantageous when the restaurant has a certain style, unique architecture, lighting and you can express the mood of the place.
My reason for suggesting this is that many customers choose a restaurant not only based on the type of food that they serve but the crowd that they see attending this location. Let's not forget that an image can say a lot to the viewer and so a busy restaurant will encourage more customers to visit.
All I can say is the purpose of using photographs is to show the quality of the food, the atmosphere of the restaurant and this is why so many restaurants use professional photographs to sell their business.
After reading my thoughts, processes and points, I hope that this has given you a small insight into a photographer’s mind when shooting at a restaurant shoot.
Chatting Food Contributor: Sam Peel
Published - Oct 15, 2020
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