Happy Meal is ageless: no decay in a year on a shelf
My routine for shooting these pics is usually saving what I eat at night, then the day after have lunch and shoot everything together after lunch. I always use natural light and a reflector and I find the light is great and pretty difuse around 14-16pm.
Some days I am pretty grossed out by the smells even thought I usually keep things in the fridge before I shoot them and me and my partner are vegetarian, so no fish or meat leftovers, but some of it smells so bad after a few hours anyway (especially onions!)… so I can’t help but find this Happy Meal thing fascinanting (yet it doesn’t surprise me at all).