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Professional Space for Beauty Product Photography
Bohemia Bay Studio is Melbourne professional beauty photography studio for cosmetics brands, skincare companies, and beauty product photographers. Located in Cheltenham, our self-access facility provides 160m² of flexible space and complete lighting equipment for beauty product shoots, cosmetics photography, and skincare campaigns, all for a single transparent hire rate.
Shoot clean beauty product photography with soft, skin-flattering light, or create styled beauty setups with our white shooting wall and seamless backdrops. Perfect for beauty photography studio hire and makeup photography, from lipstick swatches to skincare bottles.
📍 Unit 14/337 Bay Road, Cheltenham VIC 3192
We understand beauty photography demands precision, accurate colour rendering for makeup
shades, soft lighting for flattering product shots, and detail capability for texture and glow. Our studio layout and professional beauty lighting equipment focuses on creating the luminous, magazine-quality results cosmetics and skincare brands require.
Essential Foundation
Our beauty dish, octaboxes, and diffusion tools create the soft, luminous lighting essential for cosmetics and skincare photography. Professional beauty lighting setup produces flattering, magazine-quality results without harsh shadows or unflattering reflections, perfect for beauty product photography that glows.
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Precision Detail
Highlight cream textures, makeup swatches, and product finishes with our professional lighting setup. Position strobes and continuous lights for macro beauty photography showing product glow, shimmer, and texture details, critical for beauty product photography that sells skincare and cosmetics.
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Colour Accuracy
Professional strobes and daylight-balanced LEDs ensure accurate colour representation for lipstick shades, eyeshadow palettes, and foundation tones. Essential for beauty photography where colour accuracy reduces returns and builds customer trust in your cosmetics and skincare products.
Maximise Efficiency
The 160m² floor plan allows you to run multiple beauty photography setups simultaneously.
Shoot clean cosmetics packshots in one area while your assistant builds a styled skincare
lifestyle setup in another. Workflow efficiency for beauty brands shooting entire product lines in a single session.
White Background studio for Cosmetics & Skincare
Our 4.5m × 3m white shooting wall provides the foundation for clean, professional beauty product photography. Use it for white background cosmetics shots or as a base for styled beauty setups.
This dedicated skincare photography space gives beauty brands room to shoot entire product lines with consistent lighting and backgrounds.
Beauty photographers combine it with seamless paper rolls and our soft lighting setup to create luminous product shots with perfect white backgrounds, essential for e-commerce beauty photography and skincare catalogs.
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160m² Space For Professional Beauty Shoots
Effortless Beauty Product Loading
Roll beauty inventory, props, and equipment directly from your vehicle to the studio floor via our boot to door accessibility. Essential for beauty photography studio hire with multiple product lines, entire cosmetics collections, skincare ranges, or seasonal beauty launches. No stairs, no elevators, no carrying delicate beauty products down
hallways.
Ground-floor access is a massive practical advantage for beauty brand photography campaigns requiring careful handling of cosmetics and skincare products.
High Speed Tethering for Beauty Photography
Utilise our mobile shot trolley for laptop tethering and immediate image review. High-speed WiFi keeps your workflow seamless whether you're uploading beauty product shots to clients or reviewing makeup colour accuracy in real-time. Kitchenette with
refreshments keeps your production team focused during long beauty photography studio sessions.
Immediate review is critical for beauty photography, confirming lipstick shades, checking skincare texture details, and ensuring glow and luminosity appear correctly.
Professional lighting with soft, skin-flattering quality for beauty
photography.
2× 500W Elinchrome strobes with wireless trigger (consistent lighting for colour accuracy across beauty product lines)
2× 100W daylight-balanced continuous LED panels (see your beauty lighting in real-time)
150cm octabox (soft, wrap-around light perfect for most beauty products)
90cm octabox (focused light for detail shots and smaller cosmetics)
Beauty dish (creates the signature soft-yet-defined light essential for cosmetics and skincare photography, flattering without losing detail)
The beauty dish is specifically designed for beauty work, it creates luminous,
magazine-quality light that enhances product texture while minimizing harsh shadows. Essential for professional beauty photography.
Professional grip and modifiers for precise beauty lighting control:
6× C-stands with arms (including boom arm for overhead beauty product shots)
Large scrim frame with diffusion fabric (create giant soft light source for even, flattering beauty lighting)
V-flats / Polyboards (white for fill light, black for adding depth and definition)
Clamps and clips (position and secure small lipstick, compacts, and small cosmetics)
This kit gives you complete control over highlights, reflections, and shadows, critical for professional beauty photography where every detail matters.
Clean backgrounds and surfaces for beauty product photography
4.5m × 3m white shooting wall (seamless white backgrounds)
Multiple coloured seamless paper rolls (1.2m width, perfect for beauty product-specific backdrops)
Large white table on wheels (mobile beauty photography station for tabletop work)
White floor (creates natural bottom reflections for beauty products)
Colours regularly stocked: white, black, grey, plus seasonal variety including soft pastels and neutral tones popular for beauty photography. The 1.2m width is specifically sized for product work, wide enough for most beauty products, narrow enough to position easily, whilst our 3.2m wide paper roles are perfect for model work.
Shoot from above or close-up for beauty product detail shots:
C-stand with boom arm extends over your product table
Position strobes or continuous lights directly overhead
Perfect for flatlay beauty photography, cosmetics arrangements, and makeup collections
Close positioning for macro detail shots showing cream textures, shimmer, and product finishes.
Everything else you need for efficient beauty photography sessions:
Mobile shot trolley (tethering station and laptop workspace)
High-speed WiFi (seamless uploading and cloud workflows)
Kitchenette (coffee, tea, cold drinks)
Styling/prep area (space to unbox, clean, and arrange beauty products)
Plus 15 minutes early access and 30 minutes pack-down time included with every booking.
Straightforward Pricing for Beauty & cosmetic Shoots. Our self-access model and FlexiBook™ guarantee give you total control over your schedule and budget. Beauty photography studio time starts from just $109/hour (2-hour minimum), with all lighting, grip, and backgrounds included. No equipment rental fees, ever, and you can reschedule with only 1 hour's notice for no additional fees.
Complete kit for beauty product work: beauty dish for soft, flattering light on cosmetics, large octaboxes for even lighting on skincare bottles, small reflectors and foam core for detail shots, and boom arm capability for overhead beauty photography. The mobile white table is perfect for tabletop beauty product photography setups.
Yes. We have a C-stand with boom arm that extends over your product table. Position strobes or continuous lights directly above for flatlay cosmetics photography, makeup collection arrangements, or styled beauty product compositions. Not a dedicated overhead rig, but fully functional for top-down beauty photography.
Yes. Our daylight-balanced strobes and continuous LEDs provide colour-accurate lighting essential for cosmetics photography. Professional beauty photographers use our equipment to capture lipstick shades, eyeshadow palettes, and foundation tones accurately, critical for e-commerce where colour accuracy reduces returns.
Multiple seamless paper rolls in 1.2m width (beauty product-specific size). Regularly stocked: white, black, grey, plus soft pastels and neutral tones popular for beauty and cosmetics photography. The narrower width is specifically chosen for product work, wide enough for most beauty products, easy to position during shoots with the wide selection perfect for model work.
Yes. For consecutive multi-day bookings, you can leave beauty products and fragile styling setups securely in place overnight. Perfect for large beauty photography campaigns where you need consistent setups across multiple days for cosmetics or skincare collections.
Absolutely. Our soft lighting setup is ideal for skincare product photography, from small serum bottles to large pump containers. The beauty dish and octaboxes create the luminous, clean light that makes skincare products glow without harsh reflections or unflattering shadows.
Anything from small compacts to large skincare gift sets. The 160m² space and 8-meter ceilings handle beauty product displays comfortably. The white shooting wall is 4.5m wide × 3m high, suitable for large beauty product arrangements and cosmetics collections.
7am to midnight, seven days a week, 365 days per year. Perfect for early morning beauty product shoots, quick sessions before work, or late evening bookings. The studio is available when you need it.
Yes. Our beauty photography studio is perfect for makeup photography, from lipstick swatches to full cosmetics collections. The soft, colour-accurate lighting is specifically suited for makeup photography studio hire where shade accuracy and flattering light matter. Available for hourly, half-day, or full-day makeup photography bookings.
