Plate to Pixel
Food photography & video.
Restaurants and food brands across Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego & the Inland Empire.
Professional food photography
Breaks through the noise.
From the first plate to the final post, we create restaurant photos and short videos that make people hungry. Menus, websites, delivery apps, and social media- all from one shoot day and delivered in three business days. Rates start at only $495 (unlimited images).
Lights. Camera.
Eat.
Cinematic restaurant video and scroll-stopping reels, shot the same day as your stills. Sizzling pans, slow pours and steam rising off the plate, edited for Instagram, TikTok, your website and delivery apps. Your kitchen is the set. Your food is the star.
Restaurant Video & Reels
Food videographer for restaurants: cinematic food video and vertical reels shot on the same day as your stills.
Every reason to make your
food look irresistible.
Fresh from the kitchen.
@culinaryphotographer. New dishes, behind-the-scenes moments and reels from our latest restaurant shoots. Follow along for a daily dose of food that looks as good as it tastes.
Love at first snap.
Every dish has a moment when it looks its absolute best. I find that moment with soft, careful light, honest styling and a lot of patience, so your food looks as good on screen as it tastes at the table. Bright, natural and mouthwatering. Made to stop the scroll.
Dishes that look as good as they taste. I light every plate by hand and style it on the spot, so the color, texture and steam come through the way your guests experience them. No stock-photo feel, just your food at its best.
Questions restaurants ask me
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Flat rates start at $495 and include unlimited images from the shoot. Hourly options are available for shorter jobs, and I put together affordable packages for independent restaurants and cafes.
The pricing page breaks down what is included and what moves the number up or down.
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Within three business days of the shoot. That is my standard turnaround, not a rush fee.
If you are up against a menu print date or a launch, tell me the deadline and I will work to it.
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Sometimes. Ice cream, melting cheese, foam and any hero item that has to hold up for hours under lights really benefit from one. For most plated restaurant menus your own kitchen team can plate for camera with me directing, which costs you nothing extra. Styling is quoted separately, so you only pay for it when a dish needs it.
This is the single biggest difference between photos that look like the food and photos that look better than the food. A burger that has to hold up for hours under lights is a styling job before it is a photography job.
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No. You get every usable frame from the shoot. Per-image pricing makes everybody count shots on set and negotiate over the twelfth dish, which is the opposite of what you want while the food is hot.
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Everywhere, indefinitely. Menus, your website, delivery apps, social, print and paid advertising. There are no licensing tiers, no usage renewals and no expiry date.
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Yes, and it is the most cost-effective way to buy video. The lighting is already up and the food is already styled, so adding vertical reels to a stills day costs a fraction of booking a separate video shoot.
One visit can cover your menu, your website, your delivery listings and your social feed.
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Most restaurant work is a half day or a full day on location. I agree the scope with you first, so you know which one your menu needs before anything is booked.
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Yes, and often I would rather. Real plates coming out of a real kitchen look like it. It is slower than shooting a closed room, so I plan for that.
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Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego and the Inland Empire as standard, including Irvine, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Long Beach, Riverside, Corona, San Bernardino and Palm Springs.
Further afield is possible, it just adds travel.