menu
Every dish in consistent light and angle.
Consistent side by side on the menu, the website and the ordering platform.
Photography
Food photography for restaurants and cafés
Guests eat with their eyes first: menu photos, social content, venue and video in one day, at the kitchen's pace.
Guests eat with their eyes first, then they book
Food photography
The best moment
Freshat the best moment
Hot, steaminga few seconds
With the kitchenat its pace
The way the guest gets itOnly at the best moment.
What makes a good food photo?
The plate looks exactly the way the guest receives it, just at its best moment. Fresh, hot, steaming, melting: these moments last a few seconds, so we work together with the kitchen.
We adjust the order of the dishes to the kitchen's pace, so service does not stop either.
Planning
One day, several months
One shoot daydish list, shot plan
Menu
Website
Ads
Posts for months
One day, months of contentWith a seasonal menu, it pays to shoot several times a year.
One day, months of content
One well-planned shoot day gives you a menu, a website, ads and months of posts. We put together the dish list and the shot plan in advance, so by the end of the day you have everything you will need in the coming months.
With a seasonal menu it is worth shooting several times a year.
Four kinds of material in one day
With a dish list and shot plan prepared in advance, adjusted to the kitchen's pace.
social
In hand, on the table, pouring, cutting, with the atmosphere of the venue.
The movement and the steam last a few seconds, so we work together with the kitchen.
venue
The interior, the counter, the chefs at work.
Guests choose not only the food but the place.
video
Short vertical videos for Reels and TikTok, on the same day.
In the same light, so photo and video appear in one style.
The plan for a shoot day
How a typical day is structured, adjusted to the kitchen's pace.
| Stage | What we shoot |
|---|---|
| Preparation | light, table, set, dish list |
| Menu photos | every dish consistently |
| Social shots | hands, pouring, cutting, atmosphere |
| Venue and team | interior, counter, kitchen |
| Video | short vertical cuts |
Equipment and content production
Equipment
What we shoot with
Camera
- Hasselblad H3D
- medium format
- Sony A7 IV
- full frame
Light
- 2 × Godox AD200 Pro
- Godox speedlights
- softboxes, reflectors
- table top rig
Post-production
- in-house retouching
- 10- and 12-bit monitors
- calibrated yearly
- 3-copy backup
Own studio, own equipment1139 Budapest, Váci út 95, and a mobile studio on location.
What we shoot with
Medium format Hasselblad H3D and full frame Sony A7 IV, Zeiss Batis and Zeiss vintage lenses, two Godox AD200 Pro and Godox speedlights, softboxes and reflectors in every size, a table top rig and a mobile photo studio. Retouching is done in-house on 10 and 12 bit monitors calibrated every year, so colours are accurate on screen and in print.
We keep the files in three copies in two separate buildings for the period agreed.
Photo and video
16:9
On one day
16:9Photo
Photo
Vertical videos: Reels, TikTok, webshop
Same day, same setPhoto and video from one team.
Monthly content for restaurants
If you need regular content, we combine the shoot with monthly content production: the posts, the Reels and the ads are all made from the same material.
Details on the Reels and online content pages.
Who we produce content for
How much does food photography cost?
It depends on the number of dishes, the location and whether you need video as well.
Menu photography
- Dish list and shot plan
- Every dish in a consistent style
- Colour-accurate retouching
Custom pricing
- Dish list and shot plan
- Every dish in a consistent style
- Colour-accurate retouching
- Web and print sizes
- Custom quote
Menu, social and video
- Everything in menu photography
- Social media shots
- Venue and team
Custom pricing
- Everything in menu photography
- Social media shots
- Venue and team
- Short vertical videos
- Months of content from a single day
- Custom quote
Oloren Hub
Work starts the moment you finish selecting
When you close the selection, the system notifies us and your picks move to the project folder automatically. You see how many you chose out of how many, and the selection can be reopened any time.
- Notification and syncA closed selection goes straight to the team and the project folder.
- Earlier shoots tooEarlier material on its own tab, ready to reuse.
Equipment and data security, raw footage and backup
Every shot is recorded to two memory cards at once, and on the day of the shoot it exists in three copies, two of them in separate buildings. Fire, water or any other damage cannot take the footage.
We work with our own equipment: Sony FX3 and A7 IV cameras, Zeiss lenses, broadcast grade sound and light. Editing and grading happen in our own studio on 10 and 12 bit monitors calibrated every year.
- Three copies, two buildingsMaster workstation, our own NAS backing up with hashes over encrypted VPN, and a mirrored second master at another site.
- Secure handoverFinished work arrives through an independent business cloud, which is one more backup.
- Raw footage on requestStored as agreed, included in the price with an annual contract. Raw footage is handed over on request.
Request a quote for food photography
Send us the menu and tell us where the images will go, and we will get back to you with a quote. Work starts once we have an agreement.
Tools we built ourselves
We built this software and use it every day ourselves.
Built by OlorenCookie consent with Google Consent Mode v2: the banner asks for consent per service, passes the decision to Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok and Amazon, and logs every decision.
- Google Consent Mode v2, Tag Manager template
- WordPress and WooCommerce plugin, Shopify, Wix, or one line of code
- Scanner and automatic blocking until consent
- 218 ready-made service descriptions in Hungarian, English and German
- Consent log, statistics, versions
- Free plan, paid plans free for 14 days
Free checkerFree Google Consent Mode v2 checker: in 30 seconds it shows whether your website tells Google about your visitors’ consent.
- Shows whether a consent signal reaches Google
- Result in 30 seconds
- Free, no sign-up
- In Hungarian, English and German
Free checkerFree cookie checker: in 30 seconds it shows which cookies land on a visitor’s device before they consent.
- Cookies set before consent
- Result in 30 seconds
- Free, no sign-up
- In Hungarian, English and German
Oloren Hub
Built by OlorenOur own project hub where clients follow and approve the work: post copy, photos and videos in one place, and approved posts go live on Facebook and Instagram from here.
- Post approval, clients can edit the copy too
- Photo galleries clients pick from themselves
- Video playback with timestamped comments
- Scheduled publishing to Facebook and Instagram
- Notifications on every change
- Contract delivery tracked in one place
Oloren
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