Question 1

Does FoodShot send a photographer to the venue or run a studio shoot?

Accepted Answer

No. FoodShot never sends a photographer, never runs an on-site or studio shoot, never prints menus or proposal documents, and never cooks or fabricates a dish for you. It restyles photos you take yourself. You cook the real course, plate it exactly the way you plate it on the night, take a phone photo of it at the pass, upload that photo, and FoodShot re-lights and re-stages that exact image — the same dish, the same sauce, the same garnish, the same portion size. Nothing is invented, which matters more in catering than almost anywhere else: the couple who booked from your proposal has to recognise what lands in front of them at the wedding breakfast. What changes is the lighting, the surface underneath and the clutter behind — not the food. If a dish is not on your menu, it will never appear in your photographs.

Question 2

When am I supposed to take photos in the middle of a live service?

Accepted Answer

One frame per dish, taken in the sixty seconds between the last garnish and the plate leaving the pass. That is the entire shoot. Hold the phone directly over the plate, take three frames, and carry on — it costs you less time than wiping a rim. Shooting at the pass moment matters because that is the only instant the dish is correct: the jus still holds its edge, the herbs have not wilted under plate heat, the crust has not softened beneath a sauce and nothing has slid. A course photographed four minutes later is a different dish. Across a full wedding — canapés, starter, main, dessert, evening food — five frames over six hours gives you a complete menu set for the next proposal, and no guest will ever notice you doing it.

Question 3

The venue lighting is terrible. Can it really fix a marquee at dusk?

Accepted Answer

That is the specific problem it was built for. Catered food is almost never photographed in good light: a marquee lining throws a green or ivory cast across everything, uplighters wash the room in amber or magenta, a barn at eight in the evening is effectively dark, and a phone flash flattens the plate and blows the sauce into a white smear. FoodShot does not correct that lighting, it replaces it — the image is re-lit from scratch with a single directional key, a chosen surface and a controlled background, so the same beef fillet that looked grey-green in a tent comes back with a defined crust and a jus that reads glossy. The one thing it needs from you is a photo where the dish is in focus and reasonably framed. Steady the phone, get the whole plate in, and the light is no longer your problem.

Question 4

How do I build a catering proposal deck from this?

Accepted Answer

Photograph every dish you serve at the events you are already catering, run each through the same style, and you accumulate a library that maps onto your menu rather than a folder of miscellaneous snapshots. When a new enquiry comes in for a two-hundred-guest August wedding, you pull the canapés, the starter, the main, the dessert and the evening food for the menu you are actually quoting and drop them straight into the proposal. Because every image was styled with the same lighting and surface, the deck reads as one considered body of work instead of five different photographers on five different days. The same set feeds your tasting confirmation, your website gallery, the venue's supplier page and your social posts, so one afternoon of shooting keeps working for months.

Question 5

Can I use photos of dishes I cooked at a client's private event?

Accepted Answer

That is a conversation to have with your clients, not a technical limit, and most caterers handle it with a single line in the booking contract giving them permission to photograph the food they have cooked. FoodShot only ever restyles the food itself: the process works on a tight frame of the plate or platter, and the standard advice is to shoot close enough that the venue, the table setting and the guests are out of frame entirely. Builder Mode then replaces whatever background did creep in with a clean surface, so nothing identifiable about the venue or the couple's event survives into the finished image. What you publish is a photograph of your own cooking on a neutral surface — no room, no faces, no décor.

Question 6

Is this different from what a wedding photographer already gives me?

Accepted Answer

Completely, and the two are not substitutes. A wedding photographer is hired by the couple to document their day, and food is a courtesy at best — you might get two frames of a plated main shot from standing height in ambient light, delivered six weeks later, and you generally need permission to use them commercially. That gives you a handful of images a year and none of them are consistent with each other. FoodShot gives you a photograph of every dish you serve, styled identically, available in about two minutes, that belongs to you outright. Most caterers use both: the photographer's images carry the atmosphere and the room, and their own restyled dish photos carry the menu, the proposal and the portfolio.

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