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Brunch boards
Full brunch plates, mixed boards, sharing tables — the photographs Instagram and Google reward the most.
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Melbourne · VIC
Cafe Photographer Melbourne · Brunch · Coffee · Specialty
Cafés shot in
their best light.
A specialist café photographer for Melbourne — brunch boards, latte art, pastries, brunch service, fit-out and street-front. Shot in daylight, in your room, ready for Google, Instagram and your website.
Café Shoots From $450
Short morning shoot covering brunch hero plates, coffee detail, and a sweep of the venue. Full-menu refreshes from $540.
Session
2–4 hours
Turnaround
5–7 days
Coverage
All Melbourne
Why café photography is its own discipline
Cafés aren't restaurants.
Don't shoot them the same.
A café lives or dies on morning energy — bright daylight, steam off coffee, hands wrapped around a cup, a busy counter, a brunch plate that looks like the table just laughed. That's a different brief from a dim restaurant shoot, and it rewards a different photographer.
We shoot cafés in their light — natural where possible, top-up lighting where the room needs it, never the harsh studio look that flattens latte art and bleaches a brunch plate. The room should feel like the room your guests post about.
Most café shoots cover all three priorities in one session: brunch hero plates, coffee & barista detail, and a quick venue sweep — for Instagram, Google Business and your website.
- Brunch & breakfast plates
- Coffee, latte art & pour shots
- Pastries & bakery counter
- Counter & barista action
- Fit-out & street-front
- Brand details & signage
Editorial · The brunch board
One board.
A week of posts.
A single well-shot brunch board carries the Saturday Instagram, the new-menu cover, the EDM banner and the next Meta ad. We compose it for every crop you'll need — close, wide, vertical, square — in the same frame.
What we photograph · Café & coffee
Everything from the
counter to the table.
One morning, one library — coffee, brunch, counter, fit-out and street-front. Files ready for Google Business, Instagram, your website and any future menu refresh.
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Coffee & latte art
Latte art top-down and side, pour shots, espresso pulls, takeaway cups. The shot every café needs and most do badly.
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Pastries & bakery
Croissants, danishes, scrolls, slices — the counter spread that decides walk-in conversion at 10am.
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Counter action
Barista at the machine, plating at the pass, hands on the counter — café service moments that read as the room actually feels.
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Fit-out & interior
Café interior shot in working daylight — tables, counter, signage, tile, joinery, the line out the door.
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Street-front
The exterior shot Google Business needs — laneway, signage, A-frame, customers spilling onto the footpath.
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All-day menu
Lunch boards, sandwiches, salads, toasts — the menu items that keep the café busy after the brunch rush.
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Brand details
Takeaway cups, branded napkins, menu cards, A-frame chalkboards. The micro-imagery social actually engages with.
Inclusions · What you receive
What's included in
a café shoot.
Every café package below ships in 5–7 days, includes 1 free re-edit per dish, and is licensed for your own and earned channels (your website, Google Business, Instagram, Uber Eats, EDM, in-store screens). No surprise fees, no per-channel re-licensing.
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Brunch hero plates
4–12 finished frames depending on package. Each dish shot in 3 crops — 1:1 square for Instagram and Uber Eats, 4:5 vertical for feed, 16:9 landscape for the website and Google. One re-edit per dish included.
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Coffee & latte art
6–10 finished frames covering espresso pulls, top-down rosetta and tulip art, side-angle pour shots, takeaway cup hero, and a milk pour sequence. Lit with continuous LED — crema preserved, no flat flash look.
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Pastry & counter case
Croissant, danish, scroll and slice detail — both single-item hero and full counter spread. Cabinet glass cleaned and styled before frames captured. Useful for 10am Google posts and morning Stories.
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Venue interior & street-front
5–8 frames covering the room in working daylight, the espresso machine and counter line, the A-frame, signage and laneway exterior — sized for Google Business cover (1080×608) and gallery uploads.
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Reels-ready vertical clips
Optional add-on (from $180) — 3–5 short 9:16 clips for Instagram Reels and Stories. Latte pour, plate placement, pastry close-up. Music-cleared, ready to post.
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Delivery folder, all channels
Single Dropbox or Google Drive link, organised by channel (web / Google / Instagram / Uber Eats). Web-optimised JPGs plus print-grade originals. Full commercial licence for your own and earned channels.
Melbourne café context · By suburb
Different streets,
different light.
The brief doesn't change much — coffee, brunch, venue, street-front. What changes is the light, the room size, the traffic and the customer flow. Quick notes from shoots across the city below.
Brunswick & Carlton
Sydney Road, Lygon Street and the Brunswick East strip. Most venues we shoot here are 18–35 seat specialty rooms with a 2-group espresso machine and a brunch-led menu. Daylight comes in long and low through east-facing windows — best between 7:30am and 10am.
Collingwood, Fitzroy & Northcote
Smith Street, Gertrude Street, Brunswick Street and High Street. Tighter inner-north laneway frontages, often warehouse-style fit-outs with steel and timber. Reels and venue exteriors work hardest here — laneway shots double as Google Business covers.
South Melbourne, Albert Park & Port
Clarendon Street, Bridport Street, Bay Street. Bayside light is harder and whiter — we'll add a soft scrim on the south-facing windows. Larger floor plans, family brunch volume from 10:30am, so we wrap hero plates before 10am.
St Kilda, Elwood & Brighton
Acland Street, Ormond Road, Bay Street Brighton. Mixed brunch + bakery + bar venues. Travel from CBD is 25–35 minutes — we schedule first slot of the morning to dodge Beach Road traffic, especially weekends.
Plan it now · Interactive estimator
Cost your full café shoot
in under a minute.
Slide for menu size, tick brunch boards, coffee and venue, see your estimate. Most café shoots come in between $450 and $900 — confirmed on the call.
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Shoot Estimator.Pricing guide for Melbourne restaurant & cafe photography.
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· 15–20 images @ $30 · 21–99 @ $25 · 100+ @ $10 (min spend $1,000)
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Melbourne café scene · Mobile coverage
A café photographer for
Melbourne mornings.
Café photography across Sydney Road in Brunswick, Smith Street in Collingwood, Lygon Street in Carlton, High Street in Northcote, Chapel Street in Windsor, Acland Street in St Kilda and Bay Street in Brighton. Daily inner-north and bayside coverage — we arrive before doors and shoot through the brunch service window.
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Also offered · One photographer, one library
Other ways we shoot for Melbourne hospitality.
Menu Photography
Full-menu image libraries — built for Uber Eats, your website and Google.
Food & Beverage
Hero plates and signature dishes for marketing, launches and editorial.
Venue & Interior
Front of house, fit-out and ambience photography — real service, real tables.
Google Business Photos
Cover, interior, exterior and dish photography sized for Google Maps.
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Final step · Hand-confirmed quotes
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café image library?
Quick form below or call directly — quotes confirmed inside one business day. We can walk through your space first if it helps.
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