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Even New York City Restaurants Are Sick of Your Crappy Food Photos

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01/24/2013
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This news has been going around for the past couple of days, but it seems just so ridiculous. The NYTimes reported on certain restaurants in NYC not wanting their customers to take photos of their food. The article specifically cites Momofuko Ko amongst others, where the chef will come out and say, “No photos allowed.” What seems to be misconstrued on the net so far though is that this is mostly pertaining to high end restaurants–specifically citing that it annoys the people around them.

 

However, there are some restaurants that are totally accommodating. Amazingly if you read the start of the article, you’ll run into this little tidbit:

“‘We’ll say, ‘That shot will look so much better on the marble table in our kitchen,’ ” Mr. Bouley said. “It’s like, here’s the sauce, here’s the plate. Snap it. We make it like an adventure for them instead of telling them no.””

That man is my spirit animal…Further on in the article it seems that even 3rd Ward (a creative school/studio a couple of blocks from my apartment) has even offered iPhoneography classes to teach people to create better photos. As a former employee of B&H Photo, I can tell you that sometimes you end up just preaching to the choir. What I don’t understand is why they’re trying to teach people to not use flash vs teaching them how to use flash properly.

Alright, I admit it. I love taking photos of my food and having my friends heart them on Instagram. When I go into meetings with camera company reps that I’m friends with on Facebook they always tell me how good I eat. But banning these photos? How about I don’t promote your restaurant via social media instead? It’s not like I’m in Times Square (where we NYers quarantine our tourists) doing selfies with my girlfriend with the naked cowboy.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.