The corridor, without the cross city drive.
Melbourne's east runs from the established inner suburbs out through Box Hill and Doncaster to Ringwood and the Knox corridor, and the businesses along it are a particular mix: professional services, medical and dental, showrooms and trade suppliers, offices and fitouts, and the shopping strips that hold it all together.
That work has a common shape. It is interiors that need to look expensive without looking staged, teams that need one consistent standard across the whole practice, and finished projects that need to be on record before the client moves in. All of it on a schedule that does not disrupt a working day.
Belgrave sits at the end of this corridor, so an eight o'clock start in Box Hill or Ringwood is a normal morning rather than a special arrangement. No travel fee anywhere in the east.
Recent commercial work.
Fitouts, clinical spaces, showrooms and teams. All of it the same work the corridor asks for.
What the east usually needs.
Offices and fitouts
Finished commercial interiors shot to hold their lines, with the window light balanced rather than blown out. Photographed before the desks fill up, or after hours if that is cleaner.
Clinics and practices
Medical, dental and allied health rooms photographed so they read as calm and clean, plus the whole practice on one headshot standard.
Showrooms and trade
Product on the floor, the space around it, and the finished installations that a supplier's website is currently missing.
Teams and headshots
On site, a few minutes each, so a practice or a firm gets everyone done without losing a working day. New starters shot later to match.
Across the east.
All standard service area from Belgrave, with no travel charged.
Hawthorn, Camberwell, Kew, Balwyn, Surrey Hills, Canterbury, Glen Iris
Box Hill, Doncaster, Blackburn, Mont Albert, Nunawading, Glen Waverley, Burwood
Ringwood, Croydon, Bayswater, Wantirna, Knox, Rowville, Mitcham, Vermont
The things people ask first.
Do you charge travel to get here?
Not inside the eastern suburbs, the Dandenong Ranges or the Yarra Valley. Belgrave is the base, so those are a short run and the rate is the rate. Travel is only quoted separately for regional Victoria and interstate.
What does a shoot cost?
Every shoot is quoted as a fixed fee up front, against the brief rather than off a rate card. Tell me what the images have to do, where they are going and when you need them, and the quote comes back with the scope written down beside it, so the number you approve is the number you pay.
Can you shoot outside business hours?
Yes, and for an office or a clinic it is usually the better call. Early mornings, evenings and weekends all work, and an empty room photographs faster than one being worked around.
How long does a team of twenty take?
About two hours on site with a proper setup, running a few minutes each. The setup stays up so anyone who misses their slot can be caught at the end, and new starters are shot later to the same standard.
How are the images delivered?
Full resolution files through Dropbox, with web sized versions alongside them so nothing has to be resized before it goes on a site or a socials post. Commercial licensing and print rights are included, and files stay hosted for three months after delivery.
How do I book?
Send through what the shoot is for and roughly when. We do a short call to pin down scope, then the proposal, contract and payment schedule all come through one client portal so nothing is chased over email.
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