Food Photography NYC for CPG Brands

Food photography costs vary by shot count, styling complexity, recipe preparation, prop needs, usage requirements, and whether images are needed for packaging, ads, e-commerce, or trade materials. DePersico Creative uses project-based, agile pricing scaled to scope, making it suitable for startups and national CPG portfolios. A free consultation helps define the right approach before pricing is finalized.

Yes. DePersico Creative’s food photography is built specifically for non-alcoholic food and beverage packaging, including hero shots, serving suggestions, ingredient cues, plated meals, pours, and product-in-use imagery. The goal is not just to make food look appealing, but to create photographs that support front-panel hierarchy, appetite appeal, and fast shelf comprehension.

DePersico Creative serves food and beverage brands across New York State, including NYC, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and surrounding markets, from its West Chester, PA studio. Many projects can be coordinated remotely through product shipping, creative briefs, shot lists, and approvals, while the team handles styling, prep, photography, and production internally.

Yes. Full usage rights are provided for every image, allowing brands to use photography across packaging, sell sheets, ads, billboards, websites, social media, trade show materials, and launch campaigns. This is especially important for CPG brands that need consistent imagery across retail, broker, distributor, and e-commerce channels without repeated licensing concerns.

The studio photographs a wide range of non-alcoholic food and beverage products, including juices, sodas, sparkling waters, teas, coffees, functional drinks, snacks, frozen foods, dairy items, baked goods, seafood, prepared meals, and recipe applications. Wine, spirits, beer, hard seltzer, and other TTB-regulated alcoholic beverages are outside the company’s service focus.

Yes. DePersico Creative has a fully equipped test kitchen and food styling team that handles recipe execution, plating, props, arrangement, and visual direction. This allows the photography to communicate freshness, flavor, texture, aroma, and serving context—qualities that matter when a shopper is making a quick decision on a package or thumbnail.

Photography can be planned as part of a larger package design, label design, brand launch, or marketing materials project. Because DePersico Creative handles brand analysis, positioning, creative linguistics, photography, and package design in-house, images can be created with the final package layout, claims, buyer materials, and shelf strategy in mind from the start.

Typical timelines depend on product readiness, shot count, recipe complexity, approvals, and post-production needs. A simple product photography set may move faster, while packaging campaigns with recipes, styling, multiple SKUs, and several usage formats require more planning. The team begins with a scope conversation to align schedule, deliverables, and launch deadlines.