On Location · LA, Long Beach & the Inland Empire
Menu, Drink & Venue Photography for LA Restaurants
Food photographer Los Angeles restaurants book for menu shoots, bar programs, and room frames — on location at your venue, with your own kitchen plating the dishes.
On Location Across LA
An LA shoot is planned around the building before the food. Kitchens are tight, load-in is a metered street and a back door, and the gap between prep and first cover is short. Dustyn brings his own light and moves dish by dish as the kitchen fires them.
Beyond the Plate
Drinks carry the margin and are the hardest thing in the building to shoot — glass throws light back, ice clouds, foam falls in under a minute. Dustyn shot weekly service nights at Mezcalero's Downtown Los Angeles and Long Beach rooms, plus work for Pier 76, Padre's, and The Ordinarie.
Behind the Lens
Local context: DoorDash and Uber Eats both publish minimum-resolution specs for menu images and reject files that miss them, so every set ships cropped to those specs beside the full-resolution masters, through the same IEC 61966-2-1 sRGB pipeline behind my CRMLS listing work.
Real Client Work
Quoted to Your Menu
Finished dishes sized for menus, apps, and social.
Full menu plus drinks and interiors.
Menu, cocktails, interiors, and team at work, social crops included.
A standing session that keeps menus, apps, and feeds current.
Every shoot is quoted to your menu size, venue, and usage — honest starting points, not teaser rates. On location across LA County, Long Beach, and the Inland Empire.
Common Questions
Let's Work Together
Dustyn shoots every job himself, so the fastest answer is usually a phone call.