Corona Food Photographer

Menus, dishes and packaged products — photographed for Corona restaurants, distributors and brands across Riverside County.

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I shoot food in Corona and across Riverside County, for restaurants and for distributors and packaged brands. Brand work means consistency across hundreds of items and plating that matches the spec rather than the chef’s mood. I bring the lighting, work to a shot list, and shoot stills and vertical video in the same visit.

Corona food photography.
Restaurants, menus and reels.

Food photography and restaurant video for restaurants, cafes and food brands in Corona. Flat rates from $495 with unlimited images, delivered in three business days.

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Serving Corona

I come to your kitchen.

On location in Corona. I bring a full lighting setup to your restaurant, so there is nothing for you to move and no studio to book.

Photos and video, one visit. Still photos for menus and websites plus short vertical reels, captured on the same shoot day.

Unlimited images. Flat rates from $495 include every usable image from the shoot, delivered in three business days.

Hungry for better photos?

Tell me how many dishes and when you need them. I will come back with a straight number within one business day.

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Food photography in Corona

I'm Alan De Herrera, and I shoot food in Corona and across Riverside County. Clients here include US Foods.

Distributor and food brand work is a different discipline from shooting a restaurant. It means consistency across hundreds of items, plating that matches the spec rather than the chef's mood, and images that still hold up in a catalogue sitting next to a competitor's.

What I shoot here

Menus, rooms, delivery apps and video

For a distributor or a packaged brand that means a shot list built around SKUs rather than a menu, one lighting standard held across the whole set, and images cut out cleanly so the printed page looks like the product in your hand.

For restaurants out here it's the more familiar version: a full menu shot in a day, sized for the website, the printed menu and the delivery apps, plus a handful of room and lifestyle frames and vertical video from the same visit.

  • We agree a shot list before the date, grouped by where the images are going — menu, website, ordering app, social. On the day I build one lighting set-up that carries the whole list, so the last dish looks like the first, and you watch every frame full size on a tethered monitor next to me. Anything you don't like gets fixed while the food is still in front of us.

    A full day is thirty to forty-five dishes plus room and detail shots; a half day is fifteen to twenty. We work around service, so closing is almost never necessary.

Chirashi sushi box with uni, ikura and sashimi in a wooden box - Corona and Orange County food photographer

One standard, held across the set

Booking

Rates, turnaround and coverage

Flat rates start at $495 and include unlimited images from the shoot — no per-image fees, no licensing tiers. Hourly is available for smaller jobs. Photos are delivered within three business days, fully edited.

I cover Corona and the surrounding Riverside County — Norco, Eastvale, Temescal Valley, Lake Elsinore, Chino Hills and Riverside — and I'm in Orange County, Los Angeles and San Diego most weeks.

Send me your menu and roughly when you need the images, and I'll come back with a straight number.

— Alan De Herrera, Plate to Pixel

What I shoot in Corona

Restaurant photography · Food photography · Delivery app and menu photos · Restaurant video and reels · Beverage and cocktails · Pastry and desserts · Commercial and product photography · Chef portraits · Pricing

Corona food photography questions

  • My flat rates start at $495 and include unlimited images from the shoot, editing and delivery within three business days. Hourly is available for smaller jobs. The number moves with how many dishes you need, whether we add video, and whether any dish needs a food stylist.

    No per-image fees and no licensing tiers — the images are yours for anything, forever.

  • Yes. Nearly all of my work happens on location, in your kitchen and dining room, because the food is freshest where it's cooked and your room gives the lifestyle shots somewhere real to live. I bring all the lighting, so a windowless corner works as well as a bright patio.

  • Thirty to forty-five on a full day, plus room and detail shots. Fifteen to twenty on a half day. The limiting factor is usually how fast the kitchen can plate, not the camera, which is why we agree a shot list in advance.

  • Sometimes. Ice cream, melting cheese, foam and any hero item that has to hold for hours really benefit from one. For most plated restaurant menus your own kitchen team can plate for camera with me directing, and you save the cost.

    I'll tell you honestly which of your dishes need one before we book, and styling is quoted separately so you're never paying for it by default.

  • Yes, usually in the same visit. Vertical reels for Instagram and TikTok, hero footage for your website, and full restaurant video production when you want something with a story. The lights are already up and the food is already styled, which makes it the cheapest video you'll ever buy.

  • Almost never. I work around service, usually setting up between lunch and dinner or in a corner of the dining room. If a specific shot needs the room empty we schedule that part around your quietest hour.

  • Within three business days of the shoot, fully edited, in web-ready and full-resolution versions. Where you need images clipped to white for delivery apps or print, those come with a real shadow under the food rather than a floating cut-out.

  • Yes — and on your menu, website, social, paid ads, print and packaging. I shoot delivery-app images to the crops and sizes each platform asks for, named so your manager can drop them straight into the merchant portal.

  • Corona and the surrounding part of Riverside County. Norco, Eastvale, Temescal Valley, Lake Elsinore, Chino Hills and Riverside are all routine bookings. Orange County, Los Angeles and San Diego are on the calendar most weeks too.