Liberty SocialRefresh Session

The smoked Old Fashioned arrives with its own bit of theater.

This restaurant photography project in Powell brought food, drinks, and atmosphere into one collection. For a related hospitality story, see how East African Coffee House in Gahanna used its photography library across its website and social media.

The assignment: menu and atmosphere

At Liberty Social, the drink reaches the table under a glass dome filled with smoke. Lifting the dome releases the aroma and gives everyone at the table a reason to look up.

The assignment included several signature drinks, food, the bar, and the dining room. The Old Fashioned became a natural centerpiece because its preparation shows the care and presentation behind the menu.

The approach: follow the guest experience

Liberty Social pays attention to the entire guest experience, from the lighting over the bar to the way a finished plate or cocktail reaches the table. Those details gave us plenty to photograph without inventing a scene that did not belong there.

The finished set moves from wide photographs of the room to food, drinks, preparation, and service. Together they give Liberty Social a useful library for showing both the menu and the experience around it.

The result: a library and finished promotions

The work did not stop at delivering a gallery. Selected photographs became finished promotional graphics for happy hour and new menu items, giving Liberty Social assets that were ready to publish while keeping the look of the campaign connected to the restaurant itself.

That combination gave the team both a flexible image library and timely pieces they could put to work right away.

If your business needs fresh photographs of its products, people, and space, explore commercial photography in Columbus to plan a library around the ways you will use it.