Washington
Restaurant and food photography · Seattle
In short
Restaurant and food photography in Seattle starts at $650: 3 hours on location with a photographer who works in Seattle, and 30 edited photos delivered to a private gallery within 5 business days.
Why choose Restaurant and food photography in Seattle?
Food photography in Seattle is a three-hour restaurant shoot between services that delivers 30 retouched images for menus, websites and delivery apps, priced from $650. Seattle restaurants sell on things a camera shows well: seafood from Puget Sound and Alaska, produce from the market stalls, and dining rooms lit by big street-side windows that glow under overcast. That last point decides the schedule. A shoot timed for the quiet hours between lunch and dinner puts soft daylight on the plates, and the bar can be photographed at dusk before the first seating.
Worth knowing about Seattle
Public Health – Seattle & King County requires every restaurant to post its food safety rating placard within five feet of the main public entrance, under a code the Board of Health passed in January 2017, with four ratings running from Excellent to Needs to Improve. A Seattle food shoot frames the exterior with that placard in mind, because the rating changes after each inspection and a frame that shows it can date quickly.
What does the session in Seattle look like?
- Your dining room, by the window
- Seattle overcast through street-side glass gives plates soft, even light with no flash in sight.
- The kitchen pass
- Hands, plating and steam, photographed in the gap between lunch and dinner service.
- The entrance and street frontage
- For the website and listing exterior, with the King County rating placard composed in or out on purpose.
What does restaurant and food photography in Seattle include?
- 30 retouched photographs
- Three hours on site, between services
- Dishes, drinks, room and detail frames
- Crops sized for delivery platforms, menus and social
- Private gallery within 5 business days
- Commercial licence for your own marketing
FAQ — Restaurant and food photography in Seattle
Will our King County food safety rating appear in our Seattle restaurant photos?
Only if the frame includes the entrance. Public Health – Seattle & King County requires the rating placard to be posted within five feet of the main public entrance, so an exterior shot of a Seattle restaurant usually catches it. Since ratings change after each inspection, exterior frames are delivered both with and without the placard visible.
When should a Seattle food shoot be scheduled?
Between lunch and dinner service, inside three hours, while daylight still reaches the dining room. From November to February that window is short, because Seattle sunset falls before 4:30pm in December, so a winter food shoot starts straight after the lunch rush. All 30 retouched images arrive within five business days.