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A young woman picks wildflowers in a meadow with Jersey cows grazing and mountains in the distance
Featured · Restaurant photography

Restaurant opening photography: shoot before opening, and again after the room settles.

Opening week is treated like the final version of a restaurant. The strongest hospitality photography usually comes in two chapters — a clean pre-opening shoot, then a lived-in shoot once the room finds its rhythm.

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