Local Property Session
€600
One ready-to-shoot apartment up to 80 m² in Split, up to 90 minutes on site, 20 edited images. This is also the minimum booking.
Photography · Ivan Boban
Food Photographer in Croatia
Plated food, bar detail, beverage, and seasonal menu photography for Croatian restaurants and hospitality brands — built for menus, social cadence, and brand campaigns.
Commission guide
Commercial photography, half day
From €1,200
Up to four hours on site, 30 edited images.
Commercial photography, full day
From €2,000
Up to eight hours on site, 50 edited images.
Hotels are quoted by room types and shared areas, restaurants by dishes and setups, yachts by vessel and light, events by the coverage we agree. Travel, ferries, accommodation, extra crew, drone work, styling and twilight shoots are priced separately.
Every shoot includes a written, worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive licence for your website, booking listings, organic social media and brochures. RAW files are not included. Paid advertising, use by third parties and exclusivity are priced separately.
Prices in EUR, excluding VAT.
Request availability and a quoteFood photography in Croatia has two failure modes. The first is the stock-blogger look — overhead shot of a plate against a wooden table, indistinguishable from any other Mediterranean restaurant. The second is the over-styled magazine look — beautiful but unusable because nothing in it matches what the kitchen actually plates. The work below avoids both. Plates are shot how the restaurant serves them, with the venue's real light and the chef's actual plating standard. Coverage is built so the same shoot feeds menus, social cadence, OTA listings, and seasonal campaigns — not so a single hero image lives in a folder and the rest gets forgotten.
How I Approach It
Each food engagement starts with the menu itself. We pick the dishes that matter — signature plates, seasonal launches, anything that needs to actually drive bookings — then plan light around them. Most useful food shoots run during prep hours when the kitchen has space, with a parallel beverage and bar-detail pass during quieter service. Output is organised by use case: hero menu images, social verticals, OTA-ready exports, brand-deck masters. Same restaurant on year two pays less for sharper coverage because the system carries forward.
What You Get
- — Plated food shot during prep hours, with the chef's actual plating standard
- — Beverage and bar-detail pass that matches the room and the food sets
- — Hero menu images, social verticals, OTA exports, and brand-deck masters from one structured delivery
- — Bilingual EN/HR captions and SEO file naming when the brand operates in both markets
- — Repeat-engagement structure — same restaurant year two costs less for sharper coverage
Credentials & Experience
- PlanB Split — food + beverage social media photoshoot with strong hit rate across plated dishes, bar detail, and interior mood
- Restoran Struja Stobreč — multi-year visual partnership covering plated food, bar, and dining context
- Tin Food & Wine Split (rooftop) — food and beverage photography inside the Bose Professional AV integration case study
- Bossanova × Bose summer campaign — lemonade and lifestyle beverage photography in a Mediterranean setting
- Restoran Boccone Split — restaurant interior and detail photography supporting brand and AV case study work
- Restoran Degenija — restaurant interior with parallel food and architectural detail coverage
- Roxanich Winery wine tasting at Hotel Briig — beverage event coverage with bar and tasting detail
Best Fit
- — Restaurants in Split, Stobreč, Trogir, Hvar, and along the Dalmatian coast
- — Hotel restaurants and F&B concepts inside larger hospitality groups
- — Beverage brands launching summer campaigns in Croatia
- — Wineries, distilleries, and producers needing brand-ready product + lifestyle frames
- — PR agencies producing menu launches or chef profiles in Split
Connect This With
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Common Questions
Do you shoot in the kitchen or in the dining room?
Both, scheduled separately. Kitchen prep is the right environment for plate-build documentation. Dining room is the right environment for the served, occupied feel. The same dish gets one shot of each.
Can the menu coverage feed Instagram too, or is that separate?
Same engagement. We shoot horizontals for the menu and verticals for social in the same pass — different framing, same plate. Cuts the per-asset cost significantly.
Do you handle drink and cocktail photography?
Yes. Most restaurant engagements include a beverage pass for cocktails, wine pours, and bar-detail frames. Wineries and beverage brands can engage on that alone.
Do you work for restaurants outside Split?
Yes. Greater Split (Stobreč, Trogir, Klis, Kaštela) is the home market, and I travel along the Dalmatian coast and to Hvar for menu launches and hotel F&B work.
Planning a shoot?
Tell me what we are photographing, where and when. I reply with availability and a quote. No long questionnaire.