Question 1

Does FoodShot send a photographer to my house?

Accepted Answer

No. FoodShot never sends a photographer, never runs an on-site or studio shoot, never sets foot in your kitchen and never invents a bake you did not make. It restyles photos you take yourself. You bake the loaf, ice the cookies or finish the cake exactly as the customer will receive it, take a phone photo on your own counter, upload that photo, and FoodShot re-lights and re-stages that exact image. The same loaf, the same score, the same icing colours, the same number of cookies in the box. Nothing is fabricated from nothing, which matters enormously for cottage food, because the person prepaying on Sunday night has to open the box on Saturday and find what the picture showed. What changes is the light, the surface underneath and the clutter behind it. The bake itself is yours.

Question 2

Will my crumb and crust actually show up properly?

Accepted Answer

That is the specific failure this fixes. Open crumb, blistering and a raised ear are all texture, and texture only appears when light comes across a surface rather than straight down onto it. A ceiling bulb sits directly above the loaf and fills in every hollow it should be shadowing, which is exactly why a beautifully baked boule photographs as a flat brown lump on your counter and looks completely different in your hands. Restyling re-lights the loaf with a low raking key so the score ridge throws a shadow, the blisters pick up individual speculars and the crumb walls separate instead of merging into grey. Shoot the cut face square on and reasonably close, keep the phone steady, and the crumb structure you worked three days for is the first thing anyone sees.

Question 3

Can it keep my icing and buttercream colours accurate?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and colour is usually the loudest complaint decorators have. A home kitchen almost always mixes light sources — a warm bulb overhead, cool daylight from a window, sometimes a fluorescent tube in a utility area — and phones try to average that into one white balance, which lands somewhere wrong for everything. Dusty sage drifts grey, blush drifts peach, ivory drifts yellow, and a carefully matched set photographs as three different palettes. FoodShot corrects the mixed cast before it restyles, then lights the set with a neutral soft source so the flood colour you actually mixed is the colour that ships. It is worth photographing one set under both your window and your bulbs and comparing the results once, because it tells you which corner of your kitchen to keep using.

Question 4

How do I shoot a whole weekly drop consistently?

Accepted Answer

Shoot everything on one surface and let the restyle handle the rest. In practice the easiest routine is to keep one board or one clear patch of counter as your permanent photo spot, put every finished item there in the same position, and take the photo from roughly the same height each time. Then set a single style reference in My Styles and run every image through it. Because the restyle rebuilds the surface, the background and the light, small differences in when you shot — Thursday night under a bulb, Saturday morning by the window — disappear. That means you can photograph as you bake across three days instead of trying to stage nine finished items at once on a Sunday afternoon, which is what usually breaks a drop post.

Question 5

Is about 2 minutes per photo realistic for a Sunday drop?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and the real constraint is baking, not photography. Each restyle takes about 2 minutes, so a nine-item drop with a couple of alternates is around twenty-five minutes of processing while you clean down. A practical rhythm is to photograph each item as it comes off the cooling rack, batch the uploads in one sitting on Sunday afternoon, and have the whole post ready before the form opens that evening. If something changes late — a flavour swaps out, one cake gets collected early — you reshoot that single item on your phone and swap it in, rather than restaging the whole line-up. That is the difference between a drop post you dread and one that takes under half an hour.

Question 6

Are these good enough for market signage and labels?

Accepted Answer

Every image comes back at 2048x2048 and is optimised on delivery, which is comfortably enough for a feed post, a story, a stall photo on a market listing, a pre-order form header or a small printed card. FoodShot supplies the image file only — it does not print, ship or produce any physical signage, packaging, labels or menus for you, and it does not design your logo. If you are taking an image to a large printed banner for a market pitch, check the minimum resolution with whoever prints it before you commit, because a banner viewed at close range can want more pixels than a screen ever will. For everything you post, send or hand over at a stall, what you get back is more than enough.

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