3 Streifen — Restaurant and food photography
Food and product photography for the restaurant Drei Streifen. Restaurant and food photography: Frankfurt am Main. At the restaurant “Drei Streifen”, an…
At the restaurant “Drei Streifen”, an impressive series of food photography product images was recently created, staging the kitchen's work to striking effect. Marked by vivid color and sharp detail, the photographs capture the individuality and flavor of each dish and turn them into a visual feast. This visual presentation helps convey the atmosphere and the culinary experience of “Drei Streifen” and draws guests in through the appealing presentation of the food.
The photography was done on a dark gray, lightly textured surface, and everything else follows from that decision. A sandwich with minced beef, onions, lettuce and white sauce; fries with mushrooms, meat and melted cheese on a cast-iron platter in a wooden holder. Both are dishes whose colors are brown, beige and white — on a pale ground they would look washed out; on dark gray they gain an outline.
With food like this the raking light decides everything. The crust on the meat, the salt on the fries, the shine along the edge of the bread: these are surfaces that only become visible when the light comes in flat from the side or from behind at an angle. Lit from the front, the same sandwich is an evenly brown shape.
The lines of sauce are the reason these frames are made from slightly above eye level rather than from overhead. A zigzag of white sauce reads as a pattern when seen from above; from a low angle it runs over the curve of the topping and describes the height of the dish. With stacked food, the low angle is the only perspective that shows the portion size.
In every frame the background falls away into darkness. That is not retouching but a second, very weak light that reaches only the front part of the surface. It lets the dish stand on something instead of floating in a black nowhere.
And the crop is tight. These pictures go onto the menu, the poster and the delivery platform, where the dish sits as a tile beside twenty others — there is no room for scenery.
- Type
- Food photography
- Place
- Frankfurt am Main
