The thing itself
A plate as it comes out of the kitchen, a bottle on a clean ground, the detail a customer zooms in on. Photographed on site, in your light where it helps and on a seamless where it doesn't.
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In the room, or on white
Food sells best where it's served: the table, the bar, the window light at the hour people eat. Product sells best clean, so packaging and detail get a seamless and a controlled light. Most jobs want some of each.
Menus, sites, listings
Every frame is delivered at full resolution with a crop that works square, wide and tall, because the same dish ends up on the menu board, the site and a delivery app in the same week.
Scheduled around service
Restaurants shoot between lunch and dinner. Retail shoots before the doors open. I fit the day to when the room is yours.
Questions I get
Do you shoot in a studio or on site?
On site, usually. A plate photographed in the restaurant's own light, on its own table, sells the restaurant as well as the dish. A bottle on a seamless can be done anywhere, including your back room.
How many products or dishes in a session?
A half day covers a menu of eight to twelve dishes, or a product line of similar size, with a couple of angles each. A full day roughly doubles it.
Do we need a stylist?
For food, your kitchen plates it and I photograph it as it comes out. If you want it styled, bring your stylist and I'll work with them. For product, a clean sample and the packaging is enough.
What does it cost?
A full day on site is $5,200. A second photographer is $1,700 a day, rush delivery is $1,000. Shorter days are quoted from there. Send me the date, the venue and the hours and I'll send the number.
What people say
Stan has one of the best marketing minds I have met in my lifetime, making him a natural and extraordinary sales professional. I would honestly hire him anywhere, for almost any job, with complete confidence.
Get in touch
Tell me what it is, how many, and where it's going. I'll tell you whether it's a half day or a day.