For Restaurants
Photograph the room, the plates and the patio. Then build the site around them.
Restaurant photography, short video and FAA-licensed aerials for Jupiter and Palm Beach County — plus the website that holds them. Both halves come from the same two people, so your site, your Google profile and your feed are running the same pictures.
The problem
The decision happens on a phone, before anyone tastes anything
Four people are standing in a parking lot deciding where to eat. One of them has a phone out. They scan a row of Google listings, tap the photos, maybe open a website to check the menu and whether there is parking. The whole thing takes under a minute, and none of it involves your food. It involves pictures of your food — and those two things are frequently not on speaking terms.
That gap is what costs you. The room that is warm and full at seven looks washed out in a photo taken at two. A plate that leaves the pass with three colors on it reads as brown under the wrong light. The patio you spent real money on does not appear anywhere at all. A restaurant that is genuinely good ends up looking ordinary online, and ordinary loses to whoever is one listing above it.
The fix is unglamorous. Photograph the place properly on a day you are ready for it, then put those images in every spot where somebody might look: the website, the Google Business Profile, the reservation page, the delivery app, the feed. One shoot, used on every screen where the decision actually gets made. That is the whole idea, and most restaurants have never done it once.
What we cover
Everything a restaurant needs photographed, and the site it goes in
Buy it together or one piece at a time. Most restaurants start with the food and the room, which is the part people mean when they go looking for a restaurant photographer in Jupiter. If you want the frame-by-frame version first, we wrote out what to photograph in a restaurant and where each shot ends up .
Food & drink
Plated dishes, the bar, the cocktail you are known for, the pastry case at nine in the morning. Shot in daylight where the room gives us any, lit where it does not. We work from a shot list agreed beforehand, so the kitchen fires ten plates on a schedule instead of guessing across an afternoon.
The room
Interiors that look like your dining room on a good night — the bar, the booth people ask for, the private table in the corner, the finish somebody spent real money on. Wide enough to show the space, close enough to show the detail, and exposed so the windows do not blow out behind the guests.
Exterior & patio
The building from the street, the entrance a stranger has to find, the patio at the hour it looks best. This is the frame that tells someone they are in the right place before they park, and it is the one most restaurant listings are missing entirely.
Short video
Vertical clips for Reels and TikTok, plus a 30-to-60-second cut for the top of the site. Filmed in the same visit as the stills so the look matches and the kitchen gets interrupted once rather than twice.
Aerials
Flown by Kyle Romero under an FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate. Worth paying for when the location is the reason people come — on the Intracoastal, on Love Street, at Harbourside. Not worth it when you sit mid-plaza with a parking lot on three sides. We will tell you which one you are.
The website
A fast site built around the photographs, because we know exactly which photographs will exist. Menu, hours, directions and the reservation link where a thumb expects them. You own the domain, the files and the accounts.
How a shoot runs
Plan it, shoot it around service, publish it everywhere.
Three steps. Only the first one takes much of your time, and none of it takes a table out of rotation.
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Plan the shot list
We go through the menu, walk the room, and look at what your site and Google profile show today. Out of that comes an exact list: which dishes, which corners, which exterior, and the time of day each one needs. Nothing leaves the pass on shoot day that we did not agree on first.
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Shoot around service
We shoot when you are not slammed — a morning before open, or the gap between lunch and dinner. Ground and aerial in the same visit. Plates come out on our schedule rather than on demand, so the day costs you a couple of hours of prep and no covers.
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Publish it everywhere
Files come back edited and cropped three ways: for the site, for the Google Business Profile, and vertical for social. If we built the site, the images are already placed when you get the link. If you already have one, you get files named and sized for whoever runs it.
What we have shot
Restaurants, mostly, and all of it on this coast
Topside at the Beacon and Lucky Shuck, both at Charlie + Joe's at Love Street in Jupiter. Jupiter Grill and Calaveras Cantina at Harbourside Place. Lynora's at Alton Town Center in Palm Beach Gardens. The Pelican Club, lit at dusk with its dock running out over the water.
These are photography subjects, not website clients. We shot them; we did not build their sites, and we are not going to arrange their names into a logo strip that suggests otherwise. What the frames below demonstrate is narrower and more useful than a client list: this is what a restaurant in this county looks like through our camera, in this light.
Restaurants are also a fair test of whether a food photographer can actually work. The room is dim, the windows are blowing out, service starts in an hour and the plate looks its best for about ninety seconds. Anything that survives that holds up anywhere. The rest of the portfolio, ground and air, is on the work page.
Restaurants we've photographed
Exteriors, patios and aerials
Every frame here came out of our camera or our drone. No stock, no borrowed portfolio.
The website
A restaurant site has about five jobs
A menu somebody can read on a phone without pinching it. Hours that are current. A phone number that dials on one tap. The reservation link where a thumb expects to find it. Directions, and a line about where to park. Everything past that is decoration, and decoration is where most restaurant sites spend their budget.
The one that gets broken most often is the menu. A PDF opens sideways in a browser tab, loads slowly on a phone, cannot be enlarged without three gestures, and is invisible to search engines — which means the dish you are known for is not text anywhere on the internet. We build the menu as a page. It resizes, it loads immediately, and it can be read at arm's length by somebody standing outside.
Then the photographs get the room they earned. Because the shot list is agreed before the layout is drawn, the site gets designed around images we know will exist rather than around placeholders that get filled in later with whatever turned up. The exterior goes at the top at the size it deserves. The dishes sit next to the menu items they belong to.
You own the result outright — domain, files and accounts in your name from day one, with hosting and a care plan optional. The rest of how the offer fits together is on the small business page.
Where they go
For a restaurant, the Google profile works harder than the website
It is what appears when somebody searches for dinner from a hotel two miles up the road, and photos are one of the few parts of that listing you influence directly. A profile carrying current pictures of your actual room, your actual plates and your actual entrance reads differently from one running three exterior shots somebody took on a phone in 2019 — and it reads very differently from one with no photos at all.
So we size every image for the profile as part of the shoot, and we will set the profile up properly if it needs it. The same set then goes to the reservation platform, the delivery apps, the menu boards and the feed. One shoot, cropped for every screen where somebody decides where to eat.
The aerials fit the same way. One frame answers what a paragraph cannot — that you are on the Intracoastal, that the patio faces the water, that you are the building at the end of Love Street with the boats behind it. Kyle Romero flies those under an FAA Part 107 certificate, and where a location sits inside controlled airspace the authorization is filed before shoot day. That is our paperwork, not yours.
Deliverables
What you receive
Everything arrives edited, cropped and organized. We do not hand over frames straight off the card — color, exposure and crop are finished before you see them.
- Edited stills at full resolution, plus web-sized copies that load fast on a phone
- Crops sized for the website, the Google Business Profile and vertical social
- Video delivered horizontal and vertical, so one shoot feeds the site and the feed
- Aerial stills and clips flown under FAA Part 107, with any airspace authorization filed for you
- A website you own outright — domain, files and accounts in your name — with the images already in it
- Full usage rights for your site, your listings, print, menus and ads
Pricing
Published, and priced by deliverable
A restaurant buys off the small business list, so rather than repeat it here we send you to it. Three packages pair a website with the media inside it — Launch at $795, Brand at $1,250 and Signature at $2,350 — and under them is an à la carte menu with a food session, photography, video, aerials and the site priced separately, so you can total your own mix before you speak to anyone.
Nothing is billed by the hour. A shoot that runs long because the light finally cooperated does not become a bigger invoice. Work outside the menu — several locations, a standing monthly content schedule, a bigger build — gets quoted off the same rates. These are founding-client rates: introductory, and not permanent.
How the founding-client rate works and where it steps up to is on the pricing page.
Good to Know
Restaurant questions we get asked
Still have a question? We're happy to help — reach out and we'll get back to you quickly.
Ask a QuestionDo you shoot during service?
No. We shoot before you open or in the gap between lunch and dinner, and we work off the list we agreed in advance so the kitchen knows exactly what it is plating and when. A shoot day should cost you some prep and a couple of hours, not covers. If your only quiet window is a Monday morning, that is the window we book.
Does the food need to be styled or is it just plated normally?
Plated the way you serve it, made a little more carefully than usual. Real food photographs better than propped food most of the time, and a plate that has been sitting under lights for ten minutes does not. We shoot fast, we ask for a fresh garnish where one has wilted, and we keep the pass moving. Nothing is faked, glued or sprayed.
We already have a website. Can we just buy the photography?
Yes. The photography, the video and the aerials are each sold on their own, and plenty of restaurants start there. You get the files edited, named and cropped for the site, the Google profile and social, so whoever maintains your site can drop them straight in. The reason we present the site and the shoot together is that they are cheaper and better out of one visit — not because either is compulsory.
How many photos do we end up with?
It depends on which package you book, and the number is written into the quote before the shoot — you should never be guessing about that. Roughly, a half-day covers a set of dishes, the main room and the exterior; a full day adds the bar, the patio, the team and the detail shots that keep a profile and a feed stocked for a season rather than a fortnight.
Can you fly a drone over our patio?
Kyle Romero holds the FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate, which is what the FAA requires to fly commercially in the United States, and every flight we bill for is flown under it. Where a restaurant sits in controlled airspace — and a fair number in this county do — we request authorization before the shoot, usually through LAANC. Part 107 also limits flying over people, so a full patio gets worked around rather than flown over. Some locations cannot be flown at all, and we say so before you book rather than after you have paid.
How often should restaurant photos be refreshed?
When the menu changes meaningfully, when the room changes, and roughly once a season for anything that feeds social. Photographs of a dish you stopped serving in the spring are worse than no photograph, because the first thing a guest does is ask for it. If you would rather keep a small shoot on the calendar than book a big one every two years, we quote that off the same published rates — ask and we'll put a number to a cadence that fits your season.
Which restaurants do you cover?
We work across Jupiter, Palm Beach Gardens, Tequesta, Juno Beach, North Palm Beach, Abacoa, West Palm Beach and the rest of Palm Beach County — waterfront, plaza, downtown, breakfast counter or bar. Travel inside that area is included in the published prices. Anything further out, we quote the trip before you book it.
Book a Shoot
Send us your menu and your Google listing.
We'll come back with what we would photograph first, what we would change on the site, and what it costs. No obligation, and no pressure to buy the whole thing.