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Make sure you get pictures of the tables with the cups.
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This:
I posted a bunch of photos on my Flicker account too!
I've "been on [your] tail since day one?"
Give me a ****ing break.
How can anyone give you help shooting:
A place they no nothing about.
Lighting conditions they know nothing about.
A subject they know nothing about.
Your photography is about your view. Your voice. Your unique style.
You'll learn more from trial and error, than by somebody giving you a laundry list of what and how to shoot.
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I showed them a few shots and they were really amazed...yeah it'll be for fun...hopefully I'll get free sushi in return!!!
I wanted your opinions on how to shoot a restaurant
I showed them a few shots and they were really amazed...yeah it'll be for fun...hopefully I'll get free sushi in return!!!
Ok, so apparently, this is a sushi restaurant. I am deducing this from your second post in this thread. So, hopefully, you'll be payed, and payed in sushi. So, with that in mind, I'd work toward photographing some plates with sushi on them. Or, whatever it is they serve there, at "that restaurant".
Generally, vaguely speaking, food photography for menus and backlighted Dura-Trans displays used to be done by highly-qualified,capable,experience professional photographers with a view camera and three to four superb lenses. However that was then,and this is now, so you've got this gig. I'll give you a bit of advice from commercial assisting: food photography takes a three- or four-person crew to do "well". It takes longer to do a single plated shot than one might think, and there are "no easy shots". Using a very wide-angle lens at close distances can be used to deliberately distort the shape of the plate. Food often looks dry, so you need glycerine to make it look moist. If you shoot any grilled or baked foods, set up the lights and camera and a dummy plate and get the shot down,and then have the "real" plate brought in while it is fresh and hot. Dried-out, dull-looking food looks awful.
Watch your backgrounds. Shoot from a tripod, so you can control the camera's exact,precise framing, and LOOK at what is in the background.
THINK about what you are showing, and realize that you might need to have eight images that will all be placed together and need to have at least "some" type of coherence. If it is "just you" doing the work, well...man, this could be a nightmare gig,and you'll wish you were getting payed in money and not sushi...
I'd look to photograph the bar areas,(both the sushi bar and the liquor bar). The sushi bar I would photograph with and without the sushi chef. I'd want to see a table setting of four with four prepared meals. Take a few shots with people and take a few with just the settings alone. Survey the interior design of the place and find the nicest areas to use for background and or highlighted interest. The entrance and front of the building is another area of interest to future patrons. The exterior decor/landscape is what brings people in. Another good photograph shot from up high, is one of the owner and staff holding meals and drinks with a big gay smile on their faces. Take advantage of the existing lighting. Shoot the exterior just before dusk, that's when you eat diner anyhow. Interior should be shot with fast lenses and necessary fill lights to highlight specific areas. These are just a few ways I might go about this. Have fun and don't eat too much.
...and while we're talking about sushi, here's my favorite image of sushi, taken a while back after the initial hunger was stilled.
You did, indeed, say you amazed them. Obviously, you and they have an idea about what you want to shoot. If you want help, why were you so vague? A restaurant has so many things to shoot. Where I'm sitting right now, I could shoot about 100 different subjects within 20 feet of me, and they will require different settings, techniques, equipment, etc.Isn't this stuff you should be figuring out for yourself? I mean, if you showed them stuff (your work) that amazed them, what help do you need?