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// styling
Hands-on food styling
Steam coaxed, sear seared, gloss brushed where it belongs. Backup plates standing by so the second take looks as fresh as the first.
// services — fig.menu / no.302
The skillet is still ticking, oil pooling gold at the rim — pick the shoot that catches your dish at its loudest.
Every service below is priced before we plug in a light. Plated stills, shelf-ready packaging, top-down recipe video, or a whole cookbook chapter — choose the one that fits, then book the date.
★★★★★
Booked by Tidewater kitchens, jarred-sauce makers & James-River cookbook authors
// set.A — plated & lit
01 The full menu// services.list
Four ways we put your food in front of a hungry phone
Each shoot includes styling, lighting, color-graded retouching, and a private first-look gallery within 48 hours. Prices are fixed in your booking confirmation — the number you see is the number you pay.
// plated.hero
// service.01 — restaurant stills
Plated menu & socials
The hero plate, the overhead spread, the steam still curling — shot in your dining room or here on Delaney Dr. Built for the menu board, the website, and the feed that fills your tables on a slow Tuesday.
From $385half-day · in studio
- up to 5 finished stills
- 9:16 pour clips
- props included
// shelf.sku
// service.02 — packaged goods
Jars, bottles & labels
Shot to read on a crowded shelf and a small screen at once. Clean white-sweep for the storefront, or a moody pantry set when the label needs a story. Glass kept smudge-free, type kept crisp.
From $90per SKU · white sweep
- e-comm ready
- in-situ option
- label-true color
// reel.cut
// service.03 — recipe video
Short-form recipe clips
Thirty to sixty seconds of sizzle, the knock of the knife, the last flake of salt landing. Top-down builds cut for Reels, TikTok, and product pages — sound designed and paced to keep a thumb from scrolling.
From $640per finished clip
- vertical 9:16
- edited + graded
- sound design
// chapter.set
// service.04 — cookbook & editorial
Cookbook chapters & editorial
Recipe-step sequences and full-page heroes styled to your manuscript's voice, with prop and surface continuity holding across the whole chapter. Print-resolution files, color-managed for the press.
From $2,600per chapter · multi-day
- print-ready
- prop continuity
- step sequences
02 À-la-carte rates// add.ons
Bolt-ons, by the dish and by the hour
Stack these onto any package when a shoot needs more hands, more frames, or a faster turnaround. Everything lands on your confirmed quote before set day — nothing appears on the invoice that you didn't pick.
Food stylist on set
A second pair of hands keeping every plate at its hungriest peak.
$280 / day
Extra finished still
One more retouched, color-graded frame beyond your package count.
$35 each
Additional vertical clip
Another 30–60s top-down build, edited and sound-designed.
$290 each
Rush 24-hour gallery
First-look gallery the next morning instead of within 48 hours.
+$220
Prop sourcing & surfaces
Hunting down the right linen, ceramic, and board for your dish's mood.
$120 / shoot
On-location travel
Free within 25 miles of Suffolk; beyond that across Hampton Roads.
$0.70 / mi
03 What every package holds// always.included
Folded into every shoot, no asterisks
Whether you book a single plate or a whole brand story, these four things come standard — they're the difference between a snapshot and a photograph that sells.
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// light
Window-soft lighting
A soft key with a raked shadow that gives texture its weight — crumb, char, and condensation reading exactly as they would on the pass.
03
// grade
Color-graded retouch
Every frame corrected to your brand's palette, retouched clean — keeping the crumbs that belong and clearing the ones that don't.
04
// delivery
48-hour first-look gallery
A private gallery with web and print exports sized for menus, shelves, and feeds. You book, we shoot, then we invoice — never the other way round.
// heard on a wrap-up call
“We changed nothing on the recipe. New photos went up Thursday, and that dish outsold the whole board by the weekend.”— a Tidewater bistro, after a Menu Day shoot
04 Before you book// the.fine.print
The questions every kitchen asks us first
Honest answers on price, prep, and how the day actually runs — so there's nothing to puzzle over once the lights are on.
Is the package price really the final number?
Yes. We quote a fixed price before set day from your shot list and any à-la-carte bolt-ons you choose. The invoice that follows your gallery matches that quote — travel beyond 25 miles is the only line that varies, and it's spelled out up front.
Do you cook the food, or do we bring it?
Either works. Most restaurants send a line cook with the dishes plated to spec; brands ship product ahead. We style and stand in backup plates on set — bring two or three of anything that wilts, sweats, or melts under lights.
Studio shoot or on-location?
Both. The studio at 302 Delaney Dr is built for controlled light and props; on-location days suit a working kitchen or a shelf set. We cover Suffolk and the wider Hampton Roads / James-River corridor — travel inside 25 miles is on us.
How fast do we get the images?
A private first-look gallery lands within 48 hours of the shoot — web and print exports together. Need it sooner? The rush add-on puts the gallery in your inbox the next morning.
Can we use the photos anywhere?
Package shoots come with full menu, web, and social usage. Print, packaging, and broad campaign licensing is folded into the Brand Story tier or quoted per use — just tell us where the images will live and we'll sort it before set day.
What if a shot isn't right?
Your gallery includes a round of retouch tweaks — crop, color, a stray crumb. If a hero plate truly missed, we'd rather reshoot it than ship something you won't post. Same two eyes grade every frame, so the look stays consistent.
05 Book a session// reserve.now
// the next open week
Tell us the dish and the deadline
Send the menu, the SKU, or the chapter. We reply within one business day with a shot list and a fixed package price — no obligation until you say go.
Call (757) 735-1716