Shot on a phone. Finished like a shoot.
I take the photos you already have and bring them up to the standard of a professional shoot. Same dish, same room, same product. Just the way it looks in person.
Same toast, same berries, same jug, same plate. What changed is the light, the colour and the detail.
Most of the photos you need happen between shoots.
Photographers are great for a launch or a new fit-out. The trouble is the new dish in week three, the job you finished on a Tuesday, or the listing that went up before anyone was booked. Those photos are already on your phone.
No shoot day
A Perth food shoot runs around $850 for a half day, plus a stylist at $500 to $1,500 a day. Then there's the prep, the dishes cooked twice and the service you work around.
- Send the photo you took at the pass
- New dish, new photo, same week
No waiting on the weather
A builder's half-day shoot is $800 to $1,500, booked once the job is finished and moved if the sky turns grey. By then you're on the next site.
- Your best work is already in your camera roll
- Every job, not just the one you paid to shoot
No second visit
A listing shoot is quick and good value. What it can't fix is the photo taken before anyone was booked, the rental listed from a phone, or the twilight shot nobody came back for.
- Twilight from a midday photo
- Rooms fixed after the listing is live
When to book a photographer instead: a new fit-out, a brand launch, a menu you'll use for years. Book the shoot. Everything between shoots, send to me.
Shoot rates from published Perth and Australian photographer pricing, 2026.
Checked against your original, every time.
Anyone can put a photo through an app. The difference is what gets locked, what gets fixed, and how hard it gets checked before you see it.
What I lock
The thing you're selling never changes.
- Portion, plating and garnish
- Fixtures, finishes and layout
- Product shape, colour and labels
What I fix
Everything the phone got wrong.
- Light, shadow and exposure
- Colour and white balance
- Perspective, sharpness and noise
What I check
Side by side with your original, before anything leaves.
- Every edge and every reflection
- Nothing added that isn't there
- Nothing hidden that is
Food, rooms and everything between.
Cafés, restaurants and venues. Agents and property managers. Anyone whose customers decide from a photo.
Hospitality
One phone photo · three directions
The same french toast, restyled from the one phone photo for each place it's used.
Steak frites
Table cleared · light fixed
Same steak, same sauce, same chips. The phone, the empty plates and the spare cutlery are gone.
Scallop tostada
Macro · re-angled
The same dish, taken in close from a straight-down phone photo. Nothing added to the plate.
Hotels and venues
For CVBS · site visit phone photosHarbour room
Daytime to twilight
Twilight conversionHeritage function room
Empty to event-ready
Virtually stagedSame ceiling, same windows, same carpet. The long tables show planners what the room holds before they book a site visit.
Property
See the whole house →Living room
Corrected and staged
Virtually stagedFront room
Corrected only
Sized for everywhere you use them.
Files come back sized for each place they're used, so the same photo looks right on every screen.
Camera roll to finished.
Send what you've got
Straight from your camera roll. Tell me where each photo will be used.
I upgrade and check
Every image locked to the original, fixed, then checked side by side before it comes back.
You use them everywhere
Finished files for your site, socials, menus and emails. Staged or restyled versions always labelled as such.
Send me your worst photo.
Pick the one you'd never put anywhere. I'll send it back upgraded, free, so you can judge the result on something you know.
Email me your photoAttach it straight from your camera roll to hello@theserviceedit.com. I reply to every one myself.