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Schlüssel Bar. The oven, the stove and the plate — in stills and in reels.

A pizzaiolo behind the counter, head down, the wood-fired oven burning behind him.
The oven at service
A pizza with bresaola, rocket and shaved parmesan on a white tablecloth, olive oil and a pepper mill behind it.
Pizza Bresaola
A chef in a white jacket, flat cap and glasses, looking down at his work in the kitchen.
The chef
Black and white: a cook tossing a pan over a gas burner, flames rising from the pan.
Flame, in black and white

Food and kitchen photography and two vertical reels for an Italian restaurant and bar: the dishes the way the menu shows them, and the same dishes made in front of the camera by the people who cook them.

Client
Schlüssel Bar · Italian restaurant & bar
Work
Food photography · reels
Shoot dates
4 January and 14 May 2026
On screen
German captions
Photographs in this selection
6
Reels, 9:16
2
Of reel, both cuts together
82 s
Average shot, detected
1.8 s

Everything on this page is the delivered material, shown as delivered. Tones and cuts are computed from the files.

The work

Two jobs for one kitchen.

A restaurant needs pictures that sell a dish from a menu or a post, and films that show the dish being made. This selection does both, with the same people and the same oven in each.

  • Plates for the menu

    The finished dish on the table it is served at — a pizza Bresaola, a breaded cutlet on purée — framed close enough to read at the size of a thumbnail.

  • The people who cook

    The pizzaiolo at the wood-fired oven, the chef at the stove, a pan going up in flame. The kitchen has faces, and the menu has someone behind it.

  • Reels for the feed

    Two vertical cuts that open on the finished dish, go back to make it, and close on it at the table — captioned in German for the venue’s own audience.

Still and motion

The same dish, twice.

Each reel has a photograph from the same kitchen beside it: the pizza Bresaola as the menu shows it and as it is made, and the chef at his stove beside the risotto he takes from pan to plate. Both reels are built the same way — the finished dish first, the making in the middle, the table at the end.

A pizza with bresaola, rocket and shaved parmesan on a white tablecloth, olive oil and a pepper mill behind it.
Still Pizza Bresaola
Pizza Bresaola Reel · 9:16 · 50 s · 24 fps · sound · German captions

Dough, sauce, the oven and the toppings that go on after it, in 27 detected shots — made by the pizzaiolo in the photographs at the oven and at the table.

A chef in a white jacket, flat cap and glasses, looking down at his work in the kitchen.
Still The chef
Risotto ai frutti di mare Reel · 9:16 · 32 s · 24 fps · sound · German captions

Oil, seafood, rice and the toss, in 18 detected shots — the chef in the photograph is the one cooking.

The light

A dark room, a bright kitchen.

The dining room is photographed dark — low, warm, lit by the oven and the lamps — and the kitchen in its own hard, bright light. The charts are each photograph’s tones from black to white, read from the files: the room’s pictures sit in the shadows, the kitchen’s climb to white.

The dining room

Mean brightness 20 to 40 %. The food and the tablecloth are the brightest things in the frame, and nothing else competes.

A pizzaiolo behind the counter, head down, the wood-fired oven burning behind him.
The oven at service mean 20 %
The pizzaiolo seated at a white-clothed table with his pizzas, a bottle of olive oil in the foreground and string lights behind.
The pizzaiolo, at the table mean 30 %
A pizza with bresaola, rocket and shaved parmesan on a white tablecloth, olive oil and a pepper mill behind it.
Pizza Bresaola mean 37 %
A breaded cutlet on potato purée with an orange sauce, on a white-clothed table in a dim dining room.
Cutlet on purée mean 40 %

The kitchen

Mean brightness near 60 %. Steel, tile and a white jacket — and the one frame in black and white, where the flame is the subject.

A chef in a white jacket, flat cap and glasses, looking down at his work in the kitchen.
The chef mean 63 %
Black and white: a cook tossing a pan over a gas burner, flames rising from the pan.
Flame, in black and white mean 58 %

One frame

Cut four ways.

A portrait frame with room around the plate can be cropped for every place it runs without being shot again: a square for a menu grid, 4:5 for a post, 9:16 behind a story, 16:9 across a website. Drawn here on the delivered file.

A pizza with bresaola, rocket and shaved parmesan on a white tablecloth, olive oil and a pepper mill behind it.
1:1 Menu grid
1600 × 1600 px67 % of the frame
4:5 Feed post
1600 × 2000 px83 % of the frame
9:16 Story
1350 × 2400 px84 % of the frame
16:9 Website
1600 × 900 px38 % of the frame

The selection

Six frames.

Every photograph in this selection, at its delivered proportions, in the order the page used them.

  1. A pizzaiolo behind the counter, head down, the wood-fired oven burning behind him.
    The oven at service1600 × 2400
  2. A pizza with bresaola, rocket and shaved parmesan on a white tablecloth, olive oil and a pepper mill behind it.
    Pizza Bresaola1600 × 2400
  3. A chef in a white jacket, flat cap and glasses, looking down at his work in the kitchen.
    The chef1600 × 2400
  4. Black and white: a cook tossing a pan over a gas burner, flames rising from the pan.
    Flame, in black and white1600 × 2400
  5. The pizzaiolo seated at a white-clothed table with his pizzas, a bottle of olive oil in the foreground and string lights behind.
    The pizzaiolo, at the table1600 × 2400
  6. A breaded cutlet on potato purée with an orange sauce, on a white-clothed table in a dim dining room.
    Cutlet on purée1600 × 2400

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