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Food Imagery built around your brand

For restaurants and food brands whose food deserves to be seen the way it tastes. Every image is built around your story, your audience, and the platforms where it needs to perform.

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Menu Refresh

Starts at $1,500

Fast, focused photography for restaurants needing fresh imagery for third-party platforms, social media, or menu updates. Perfect for DoorDash, Yelp, and Uber Eats, refreshes when you need dishes to be shot efficiently without sacrificing quality.

You'll walk away with clean, appetizing images that make your food look irresistible across all digital touch points.

Includes broad usage license covering digital, social, delivery platforms, print, and marketing.

What's included:

  • Pre-production planning and shot list

  • Studio or on-location shooting

  • 25-30 dishes/menu items (Option to add more)

  • Basic styling coordination

  • Full retouching and platform-optimized delivery

Ideal for: third-party platform refreshes, social content libraries, seasonal menu updates.

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Restaurant Launch

Starts at $3,800

A strategic visual foundation for restaurants launching, rebranding, or building their full digital presence. This high-touch experience covers everything from hero dishes to environmental imagery, designed for moments when your restaurant needs to look as good online as it tastes in person.

From concept through execution, every decision is intentional, resulting in imagery that feels unified, elevated, and ready to support your brand across website, social, PR, and marketing.

Includes broad usage license covering digital, social, delivery platforms, print, and marketing.

What's included:

  • Creative direction and brand alignment

  • Comprehensive shot list development

  • Hero dishes, detail shots, and environmental imagery

  • Styling and prop coordination

  • Behind-the-scenes and process shots

  • Full retouching and multi-format delivery

Ideal for: restaurant launches, website builds, PR kits, brand refreshes, comprehensive marketing libraries.

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Commercial Food & Beverage Brands

Starts at $4,800

Commercial food photography for CPG brands, beverage companies, and packaged food products. Built around the technical precision and creative flexibility that retail and e-commerce demands, with the editorial sensibility that makes products feel premium and intentional.

Whether it's hero shots for packaging, lifestyle imagery for social, or comprehensive campaign assets, every image is designed to work across channels and make your product stand out on shelf and online.

Includes standard digital and social usage license. Packaging, retail, advertising, and extended licensing discussed at project intake.

What's included:

  • Creative direction and campaign concepting

  • Studio shooting with controlled lighting

  • Product, lifestyle, and ingredient photography

  • Packaging and retail environment imagery

  • Stop-motion and short-form video (on request)

  • Comprehensive retouching and format delivery

Ideal for: product launches, packaging refreshes, e-commerce libraries, seasonal campaigns, retail and advertising use.

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“Our needs are great in volume and varied in nature: everything from product and packaging silhouettes to ingredient beauty shots to lifestyle sets with live talent. Maria was deftly able to execute our regular requests with speed, with the amazing talent she possesses, and with glowing professionalism.”

Aaron Komae

Popcornopolis

Frequently Asked Questions

  • That’s exactly what the intake process is for. We’ll define your goals, timeline, and audience first, then build scope that fits your unique needs. Whether it is a quick menu refresh or a full brand launch, clarity always comes first.

  • Licensing is tailored to each project based on how your imagery will be used. This can include social media, websites, third-party platforms, packaging, advertising, and retail use. We’ll walk through these details upfront so you can make informed decisions.

  • Fifteen years of experience across independent restaurants, catering companies, and nationally distributed CPG brands from Popcornopolis on Amazon and Costco shelves to intimate chef-driven concepts. I shoot editorial and commercial with equal fluency, and I treat every project as a creative partnership, not a transaction. The goal is always imagery that feels unmistakably like your brand.

  • Most clients book 3-4 weeks out for Menu Refresh projects and 4-6 weeks for Restaurant Launch and Brand work to allow for strategy and production prep. If you're on a tighter timeline, let's discuss what's possible.

  • The starting investment is listed with each service above. Final pricing is scoped per project based on deliverables, usage, and production needs. Reach out and we'll put together a custom quote.

Let’s make this something worth tasting.

Fill out the form with a few details about your project and I'll get back to you within 48 hours. Or reach me directly at contact@mariahedrick.com