Cake, Cookie, Pastries and Dessert Photographer


    

Photographing a cookie, cake, pastry or dessert is not as simple as it looks.  The photographer needs to have a good knowledge of art, layout, taste, texture and colour.  The Cake, Cookie or Dessert should be the celebrity of the image. There can be no distracting elements that take away the viewers eye. 

 

Ecommerce Websites use many images of cookies, cakes, pastries, chocolates and desserts, but the most important images they must have are the beauty shots that appear very large and grab the eye of the viewer so that they stay on the website and are more likely to remember your site, bookmark it or place an order.

 

Print Catalogues, Advertisements and Brochures for your cakes, Photographing a Dessert, Cookie, Pastry or Cake is not as simple cookies, chocolates or dessert photography also need beauty photography, if not more so. The printed medium is in the hands of the consumer and you need to keep them looking, so delicious photography is one of the most important factors when considering your photographer budget. A Food stylist or a Pastry Chef is also an excellent choice to your creative team in addition to your photographer.

 

Diana DeLucia has photographed cake, cookie, dessert and pastry creations from the following pastry chefs, companies and restaurants (partial list)

 

Virginia Dare

Grannies Pie Factory

Pure Treasures Biscotti

The Brooklyn Diner NY

Francois Payard

Johnny Iuzzini - Jean Georges Restaurant NY

Alain Ducasse at the Essex House (Jerimiah House) NY

Nirmalas Edible Diary - A Cookbook by Nirmala Narine and Diana DeLucia (Chronicle Books)

Restaurant Insider Magazine

Ritz Carlton, Battery Park, NY

Michael Laskonis, Le Bernardin, NY

 

Case Study

 

Granny's Pie Factory 103 School St

East Hartford, CT 06108

 

Granny’s Pie Factory was founded in 2006 by Joan and Anton Harovas after many years owning a previous business.  While Joan was a newcomer to the  bakery business, Anton has over 30 years of experience in restaurants, bakeries and ice cream manufacturing, over 20 of which were spent focused on pies.  Using this experience they continue to manufacture pies of high quality for sale in their retail store front and to wholesale customers. 

 

In 2008 their son Niko joined the business after graduating from Trinity College in Hartford, CT with a degree in history.  Niko had been developing a growing interest in food, its preparation and production throughout his college and high school years.  This began as a nutritional interest, evolved into an interest in home cooking followed by an interest in professional cooking, food production and industrial ethics.  These are interests which he continues to cultivate and incorporate in his work. 

 

Together, the family is working towards manufacturing desserts of the highest possible quality and holding their business to the highest ethical standards.  It is their goal to produce food that is not only delicious, but food that people can feel good about eating.

 

Granny's Pie Factory Photoshoot

 

Niko Harovas of Granny's Pie Factory in East Hartford, Ct wanted to create a new website that would show off his family run business.

He had no idea how time consuming this photoshoot would become, and he also gained some valuable food styling knowledge by seeing and doing! Nicolas also gained some knowledge of the Fine Dining industry as well from our many conversations and took his Father to Alinea in Chicago (his first ever fine dining experience) and is now set to dine at Per Se, Thomas Keller's New York Restaurant.

 

We set up a 2 day shoot, the first day I would shoot the the Harovas family and the bakery and the second day we would photograph the Pies.

 

This image of Granny's Pie Factory's signature dish was created on a tight photography budget with no Food Stylist.  I sent Niko off to buy some pie plates, table cloths and other accessories. Through trial and error and about and 1 hour of shooting we came up with this image. Nice work Niko, just 24 years old, has his sights set on studying the art of Food Styling! 

 

Testimonial

 

"Working with Diana did more than produce good results, it was a pleasure.  She was friendly, helpful, professional and devoted entirely to providing the best pictures possible for our needs and within our budget.  I was immediately impressed by her credentials and in working with her I saw how she had earned them: she was skilled, knowledgeable, clearly knew the industry and how photography fits into it. 


While I was clearly pleased with her effectiveness, I was even more pleased with Diana’s working demeanor.  She was open to my ideas and knew what needed to be done to get the pictures we wanted.  In addition she was not hesitant to voice her professional opinion to make sure that our needs were met to the best of both her and our abilities.  I was thrilled with Diana’s work and plan to hire her again for any future photography."

 

Niko Harovos

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

                                                                                   

If you have any questions whatsoever about my availability for your photography project, please use my Contact Form, call me, Diana DeLucia, at 860-406-1782, or Email me at .