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Hero plates
Signature dishes shot to anchor a campaign — billboard, hero, print, EDM. One frame, every crop you need.
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Melbourne · VIC
Food Photography Melbourne · Restaurants · Chefs · Hospitality groups
Food photography
that looks like dinner.
Editorial-quality food & beverage photography for Melbourne restaurants, chefs and hospitality groups. Hero plates, signature dishes, drinks and seasonal launches — shot in your kitchen, on your tables, with your team.
Half-day Hero Shoot · From $650
Half-day on-location, 6–10 hero frames, edited in 5 business days. Larger campaigns and full-day production quoted on the call.
Format
Half / full-day
Turnaround
3–5 days
Coverage
All Melbourne
Why food photography Melbourne chefs invest in
One hero plate.
A whole season of marketing.
A single, well-shot signature dish carries a launch poster, a Meta ad set, an EDM banner, the home page hero and three weeks of Instagram. Editorial food photography isn't decoration — it's the working asset behind every campaign you run.
We shoot the way good food editors used to — natural light, tight crops, hands in frame, steam if there's steam, no plastic gloss. The dish is the photograph. Plating stays yours; we light it properly and frame it with intent.
Half a day on-location, six to ten hero frames, files sized for every channel — paid media, website, print, in-venue prints and your PR kit.
- Editorial-grade hero plates
- Drinks, cocktails & coffee
- Signature dish launches
- Seasonal menu campaigns
- Print & outdoor-ready files
- Coordinated with your designer
Editorial · The hero frame
The first image carries
the whole campaign.
A campaign hero is a single photograph that has to work as a billboard, a website hero, an EDM, a print poster and seven social crops. We shoot for that brief from frame one — same dish, multiple usable crops, consistent palette.
What we photograph · Food & beverage
Hero plates, drinks
and everything around them.
One photographer, one library, every channel — paid, organic, web, print and PR. No studio shipping, no plastic styling, no AI placeholders.
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Drinks & cocktails
Cocktails, mocktails, lassis, coffee — condensation, garnish, glassware. Bar shoots in working light.
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Macro & detail
Pour shots, hidden layers, syrup catch, steam. Macro food photography that earns the scroll-stop.
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Editorial styling
Multi-plate spreads, hands-in-frame, working tables. The shot that looks like a magazine, not a stock photo.
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Seasonal launches
New menus, seasonal specials, limited drops — a coordinated set of hero plates and supporting crops.
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Coffee & brunch
Latté art, brunch boards, café food in daylight. Bright, honest, share-ready imagery for cafés.
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Print & outdoor
High-res files retouched for print, in-venue posters, transit and outdoor at any size — including CMYK on request.
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Brand collateral
Hero imagery sized for paid social, website, EDM, packaging and PR kits — delivered in one shareable folder.
Plan it now · Interactive estimator
A signature shoot,
costed in under a minute.
Slide for menu size, tick what you want shot — drinks, desserts, reels — and see a clean estimate. We confirm the final price by phone the same business day.
How much will it cost to
shoot your menu?
Drag the slider. Tick the add-ons. You'll see the price in three clicks — we hand-confirm everything on a quick call.
Free · No login · Reply within 1 business day
Shoot Estimator.Pricing guide for Melbourne restaurant & cafe photography.
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20 images · min 15How many dishes?
20images$30/image
1520 · $2560100+ · $10
· 15–20 images @ $30 · 21–99 @ $25 · 100+ @ $10 (min spend $1,000)
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Multi-selectWhat's on the menu?
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Tap to includeAdd-ons
Step 1 of 3 · Estimate is hand-confirmed on a quick phone call
Live preview · sample frames
Dishes20
Add-onsDesserts
Melbourne hospitality · Mobile coverage
A food photographer for
Melbourne kitchens.
A mobile food photographer working with chefs, owners and marketing teams across Greater Melbourne — kitchens in Footscray, fine-dining in Richmond and CBD, café strips in Brunswick and Carlton, family restaurants out in Point Cook and Glen Waverley.
Food Photography Melbourne CBD
City restaurants, hotel kitchens, hospitality groups
Food Photography Brunswick
Cafés, wine bars, neighbourhood restaurants
Food Photography Richmond
Bridge Road and Swan Street venues, high-end dining
Food Photography Carlton
Lygon Street restaurants and Italian institutions
Food Photography Footscray
West-side food scene — Vietnamese, Ethiopian, Indian
Food Photography Glen Waverley
Asian dining strip, family restaurants
Food Photography Dandenong
South-east hospitality — Afghan, Indian, Sri Lankan
Food Photography Fitzroy
Brunswick Street venues and inner-north bars
Also offered · One photographer, one library
Other ways we shoot for Melbourne hospitality.
Final step · Hand-confirmed quotes
Ready to shoot
your hero plates?
Quick form below or call directly — quotes confirmed inside one business day. No marketing chase, no spam, no AI follow-ups.
Request a shoot quote