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Promotional food photography for Restaurants, Bars and Hotels

Location based food photography that promotes your food and restaurant business – taken at your restaurant or hotel.

As an experienced hotel, interior and architectural photographers we can meet your full range of photography needs and have all the skills and advanced equipment to provide just the pictures you want - taken in your kitchen, dining room, development kitchen or farm shop, giving you total control over the look of the images and the way your food is presented.

When you need high quality food photographs for menus, brochures and web sites, our images will help tell your story and give you images that fit in with your business requirements.

Whether fine dining or bar snacks, we can produce the images you want...

Good photos sell food and the experience of eating - let us do more for your business.

Based in Leicestershire, the UK East Midlands (Northampton, Nottingham and Derby) we can cover the whole country when you need a food photographer.

Our pictures have appeared in restaurant reviews in the Guardian and Independent on Sunday newspapers.

What we offer

All the technical expertise and creative skills location food photography demands - our aim is to help you get the most from your food, interior and event images.

Our technical experience means that we can often get superb results in your kitchens and restaurant, without needing to set up extensive additional lighting - particularly important in a busy working kitchen.

We photograph hotels and resorts, and can often arrange food photography sessions for the same visit.

We also have experience of photographing cookery training classes for promotional and course materials.

If you need a documentary style food photography, then we can help with photos of ingredients at source, being cooked in professional kitchens, and of course, what goes in front of the customer. Keith is happy to visit farm shops and small independent food producers to show off their food in context.

Depending on how you want to use the images, we can advise on backgrounds and any 'props' to set off the images.

What we don't cover, is traditional studio based food photography where a skilled food stylist may work at length on the preparation and presentation of an item. Our location work is ideal for where you want to show the real thing, prepared by your own staff, at your own location.

Why ask us to take your food photographs?

The Photos you want - We can work with however a detailed brief you provide, or help with creative input when needed.

breakfast pastry desert - shot taken at development kitchen preparing meat - in working kitchen muxhroom snack food preparation - onion bajhis
commercial food and menu development fresh coffee vegetarian options - shot at food development kitchen oreo based desert industrial food preparation
selecting produce - farmers market plated food, part of restaurant website image collection canapes - shot in kitchen, no additional lighting food images for restaurant ready for serving

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A guide to our commercial photography prices

This guide to our prices and fees, is for our UK commercial photography services and covers our UK commercial photography rates. Full details, and information about image usage for stock are on our photography prices page. These are 'one-off' rates. Larger projects and extended work may qualify for discounted rates.

UK Hourly/Day rates
excl. VAT
Standard
Image use
Extended
Image use
Premium
Image Use
1st hour and setup fee £170 £195 £320
Additional time
per hour or part
£85 £125 £195
Half-day rate (up to 4 hrs) £385 £490 £985
Day rate (up to 7.5 hrs.) £675 £790 £1540
Notes:
* Minimum half day for assignments outside of Leicester and Leicestershire, where we also charge for travel (£0.49 per mile). Hotels (if required) and expenses are charged at cost.
* Rates are exclusive of any image processing charges listed on our Prices Page
* Precise rates vary with the number of images required, and their anticipated usage.
* Final usage of the images may also have an impact on costs.
* We charge a minimum half day rate for outside of Leicestershire PLUS

Click here to contact us for a free quote - Email Us or Tel.0116 291 9092

Please contact us directly to discuss quotations for any international work - we are happy to work for multinational companies outside of the UK, via their UK offices.

We also have a guide to our standard terms and conditions for commercial photography services - please just ask if you are unsure of anything, we are happy to help clarify matters in plain English.

Prices on this site are UK prices for our commercial photography and are valid as of September 2012.
-- All commercial photography prices are for guidance only (E&OE) and exclude VAT

 

Cup of coffee at outside restaurantWhat will you receive?

Food photos and all our commercial work are supplied in whatever digital formats you find most convenient.

We work with designers and advertising agencies to make sure our photos fit in perfectly with what you need.

Images can also be processed and enhanced for optimum quality for web and print use.

We can produce CD based 'web galleries' of your food images and can often email these to you within hours of a shoot.

Our service does not stop when you get the pictures - we can offer you free help with colour management, web use, and other issues relating to getting the very best from your photos.

Based in Leicestershire (centrally for the UK) we can cover locations throughout the UK and not just the East Midlands.

On any job, all our lifestyle and interior photography expertise is available along with our professional event coverage experience for you to make use of.

We've a free guide to using a professional photographer available. Questions to ask your photographer - whoever you choose.


The full range of our commercial photography services
Commercial photography

Photography to get your business message across. Details on our commercial photography page.

Industrial photography

Locations, products, machinery, people. There are full details on the industrial photography page.

Architecture

Photography of the built environment. Technical excelence and creativity combined. Details on the architectural photography page.

Construction

From site evaluation through to buildings in use, our construction photography covers the full process from site evaluation to finished structures and buildings.

Heritage Architecture

Specialist photography for recording and documenting heritage and restoration projects. Detailed images and processing, such as rectification.

High resolution photography and digital imaging

Extremely high resolution photographs. Capabilities way beyond traditional large format film. Multi gigabyte sized images.

Product photograpy

Studio and location based product photography

Macro photography

Photography of very small objects.

Interior and lifestyle photography

Interior photography for designers, architects and housing developers. Commercial and residential property.

Hotel Photography

Photography to publicise all aspects of your hotel, resort or spa and the services you offer your guests. Hotel photography for print and web use.

Restaurant and location based food photography

Photography of food, where it's made, where it's served or even where it's produced and sold. Food photography beyond the studio.

Corporate Event photography

Our photography services are available for corporate events and hospitality where we supply high quality images for publicity and promotional purposes. Our aim is to capture the atmosphere and convey much more than just a record of who was there.

Venue Photography

Entertainment venue, club and gig photography in Leicester and the UK.

Photography for Annual Reports

Images to capture the essence of your company's activities, locations and people. Detailed creative photography for print and web use. Images available as large fine art prints.

Location stills photography

Stills and publicity photography for video shoots.

Landscape Photography

We provide commercial landscape photography for brochures, events and exhibitions.

Fine Art prints

We also provide large fine-art prints of the natural and man made environment for domestic and corporate clients. There are numerous example of Keith Cooper's photography in the main Landscape photo gallery

Training / education / seminars

You can take better pictures yourself. Many corporate clients want to take their own photographs for internal and web use.

Northlight Images offers training to help you get the most out of the equipment you already have and can help you decide whether it is truly adequate for your needs. At Northlight we are not worried by the prospect of people doing their own photography.

We have specific web pages covering:

Other areas of our site that may be of interest...

We've a whole section of the site devoted to Digital Black and White photography and printing. It covers all the specialist articles and reviews written by Keith. We've many other Photography Articles and Photographic equipment and software reviews on the site aimed at helping you get the best out of your own photography.

There is a gallery of landscape photography and fine art prints.

All new material appears on the Articles, news and reviews page.

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