"I don't think I'd be interested in that" (local restaurant loves their cell phone food photos)...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

One thing I've learned about sales is that when people are convinced that the thing they are doing for free is "good enough," you just have to move on.

Poorly lit, poorly composed, bad color, bad lighting, and that thing on the bottom is supposed to be shrimp salad.

I offered my services to the owner and he said "I don't think I'd be interested in that."

[Incitatus]

1. Those do not look very appetizing.

They would discourage me from buying. I think the owner would be better off losing the pictures and just going with a description of the dishes if he doesn't want to spend the money to get it done right.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. I think my sister nailed it...

...I think it's "copycat posting." This particular restaurant has NEVER posted a food photo. I've been getting a reputation. I do believe they saw my stuff (it's a SMALL town) and thought "We can do that."

Actually, they CAN'T.

[olddots]

2. a food photo shoot

could take long days and a lot of food to make things look like they taste good.

[Wait Wut]

3. Maybe...

...they're out of focus and dark because the food actually looks worse and the photographer was doing the guy a favor.

[bluesbassman]

5. Saw better looking food an a steel plate in the Army mess hall.

Probably a good thing this one's passing you by AV.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. My sister just said that...

..."let it go." I see the wisdom in that.

[Heddi]

7. Could they have used older lettuce for the salad?

Holy shit that's some anemic looking lettuce. Add the anemic cukes and whatever the fuck creamy shit is in the last picture and, well, let's give that salad a hefty bag of Packed Red Blood cells

[RavensChick]

8. The second one looks better.

As for the rest, ick!

[LeftofObama]

9. When you posted those other pictures of food (the ones that you took),

they made me want to run out to that restaurant if I lived close by. That was some yummy looking food. These pictures make me want to stay home with a bowl of oatmeal.

[Call Me Wesley]

10. Like you said, 'move on.'

The photos are bad (even there's the ability to take great food pictures with a cell-phone,) but if it's free and done by a friend, there's no business to do, no matter what. Besides, where are the shrimps?

Here's a quick shot of a pretty simple dish I've done with an iPhone. Not staged at all, lit by what's available, absolutely nothing fancy (just a Hipstamatic shot,) and at least you can see some shrimps:



You can't win this.