Archive for the ‘portrait session’ Category
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
I am sure I’ve said it on here before but I’ll say it again. One of the things I really enjoy doing is photographing my small business clients. I think what I enjoy most is getting to hear about all types of industries from all types of people. It’s fantastic to get the opportunity to work closely with my clients to portray their personality and business so as it best represents them to their clients and potential clients.
A while ago I photographed Sharon, Sharon is a Naturopath but offers a diverse range of advice including nutrition and lifestyle. All areas in which she feels fit hand in hand together and all of which she is very passionate about. Sharon realises that it is important for her clients to want to consult with someone they feel comfortable with so we worked towards getting images which portrayed her open and friendly personality.
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Thursday, October 20th, 2011
So I am starting to think that my clients are crazy. I mean that in the nicest possible way of course! I mean I actually rate someone with a little bit of crazy quite highly. As we are all a little crazy, right?
But to get back on track, When Teagan came in for her photo session she told me she didn’t take a good photo. Nothing wrong with that, that is pretty much the first thing every client tells me before I take their photo!
Why do I think she’s a little crazy? Take a look at the photos below! I think they say it all.
In all seriousness though I think Teagan is absolutely lovely and was a pleasure to work with. I loved the sense of calm she brought with her that enveloped the studio and me. Teagan is extremely friendly and has a bubbly personality with a big broad genuine smile. I instantly noticed that she has a sense of calm in her life. For someone who doesn’t have any sort of calm in their life I recognise and envy this quality. I’m sure her connection with meditation and spirituality must have something to do with this.
I think these photos encapsulate her personality. The feedback from Teagan was also positive! To quote ” Thanks! Everyone went nuts over the photos. I am really pleased with them.” 
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Recently I had the pleasure of meeting, having a great chat with and photographing Mary from Career Sheila. Years ago, Mary had corporate portraits of herself taken but she realised she’d like to update them and wanted some images that reflected her personality and business rather than a stiff corporate head shot.
Mary Goldsmith is the consultant behind Career Sheila. Mary works with people at every career stage: young professionals on the move, women returning from parental leave, managers seeking advancement into a senior position, or individuals redirecting their careers altogether. Career Sheila provides consulting, coaching and mentoring for women who are motivated to explore, develop or change their career focus.
Mary has an extensive background Mary combines her extensive corporate and government experience in Human Resources, Executive Search and Selection, Executive Education and Career Transition consulting. I have no doubt she’d be well equipped to help anyone navigate through a career change.
Tags: career consultant, career consultant photographs, consultant, consultant photographs, engaging consultant photographs, engaging portraits, Melbourne corporate photographer, Melbourne professional photographer, realxed corporate portraits, relaxed business portraits, website portrait images
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
One of the things I really enjoy doing is photographing small business clients and consultants. I work a lot with people who are the “face of their business” They realise the importance of having engaging photographs on their websites and marketing material. Often they aren’t all that eager to have their photograph taken but an hour spent with me in front of the camera intertwined with general chit chat about business, life or the weather and a good laugh usually makes people feel relaxed and at ease in front of the camera. The result is engaging, friendly and relaxed photographs which illustrate their personality and business ethos.
Recently, I photographed Jacquie Molloy. Jacquie is an expert in corporate communications. She works with organisations and individuals to support those who are about to move into a new role, those who are in their first year of a senior role, or those who aspire to lead.
It was a pleasure to photograph Jacquie, as she was very clear on what she would use the images for and the image she wanted to portray.
Jacquie also had these lovely things to say about our session:
Lizzy is my photographer of choice! I love the way Lizzy is open to what I want but always aware of what will look best. She manages that ‘line’ very well. Consequently I feel like I am in the best hands and the proof is in the quality of the photos. I also appreciate the extra effort Lizzy takes to make sure I have all the formats I need and is very helpful with meeting sometimes tight deadlines.
* Jacquie does some acting on the side. The bottom middle one is a headshot for upcoming productions.
Tags: business portrait, commercial portrait, consultant portrait, corporate portraits, melbourne business photographer, melbourne commercial photographer, Melbourne Photographer, Melbourne professional photographer, website photos, website portrait
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011
About a year ago I photographed Mary for her cookbook, which was about to be published. In the end, one of the photographs was included in the book (see below), which has since been published and is selling very well across all major book stores. Make sure you check it out. The recipes in it are terrific, if her delicious biscuits are anything to go by!
Mary got in contact with me recently so we could take more photographs to promote her new book. It was great fun to collaborate with Mary again, even if she doesn’t relish the idea of having her photo taken!
Tags: Author portrait, Author portraits melbourne, Business portraits melbourne, Cook book author, Cook book images
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Friday, February 4th, 2011
And as I was saying… I get to meet some really interesting people in my line of work. Dom is a lawyer by trade but he has a passion for documentary film making. Recently he went to Mongolia and filmed a documentary there. I don’t know about you but last time I was in Mongolia I ended up lost in the Gobi desert with a blue combi 70s van as transport and a driver who we affectionately called Shamus. But that is another story…
Dom was there on a much more important mission. He was documenting the changes in Mongolia due to urbanisation. He made a documentary and magazines wanted to write about him so we took some photos for them!
In case any of you are wondering “what blue combie?”
Here are a few photos I look in Mongolia when I was there in about 2005. These are taken on film… remember those days?
Tags: commercial photographer, commercial photography, documentry maker portrait, enviormental portrait, film maker portrait, Melbourne professional photographer, relaxed business portrait, relaxed portrait, relaxed portraits melbourne
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
I’ve been lucky enough to photograph a few writers and authors lately. They are always fun people to work with. Clare was no exception! Clare has a myriad of talents and is very easy going. She was very clear on what she wanted and who her target market are, that is the type of clients who she appeals to. Creatives and relaxed business people were a common theme. We therefore kept this in mind for the colours we included, what she wore and the environment we photographed her in.
Tags: author portraits, business copywriter, business portrait, Business portraits, marketing images, marketing photographs, Melbourne professional photographer, portrait photographer, professional photographer, romance writer, website images, website photographs, website portrait, writer, writer marketing images, writer portraits
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
David contacted me when he realised that he didn’t have a single photograph of himself! Not one that he could use for some publicity and the PR opportunities that he needed.
David is the brains behind Cloakroom Music. Cloakroom creates original music for commercials, TV, film, brands etc. David needed some photographs of himself which showed off his creative flair but also appealed to his corporate clients. These are some of the images we came up with…
Tags: business photography, Business portraits, commercial photographer, commercial portrait photographer, commercial portraits, composer, musician, musician photographer, relaxed portraits, unique portraits
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
I love working with Studley Park Boathouse. It’s a beautiful restaurant and cafe on the banks of the Yarra. The staff are really friendly and they have great food. Recently they contacted me to take some photographs that the Age good food guide had requested.
Tags: business photography, Chefs portrait, commercial photographer, corporate portrait, environmental portrait, food photogreapher, interior photography, melbourne commercial photographer, restaurant photographs, restaurant photography, restaurant portrait, studley park boathouse, workplace portrait
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
You can’t help but smile when you talk to Bridget. She has a lovely warm personality and is obviously passionate about what she does. Bridget is the director of Fresh Green Clean. Fresh Green Clean consult, educate and train organisations on green cleaning. In the process of creating a new website, Bridget realised that she needed good quality professional images to portray her message and what she does to potential clients. I did a range of photographs for Fresh Green Clean including Bridget’s profile photographs and images she can use on her website and promotional material to promote what she does clearly and concisely. Because Brigid works closely with people as a consultant and as an educator it was important that her profile portraits portrayed her warm and approachable personality. Her clients range from large corporates to cleaning companies so it was important to have a range of images that all clients could identify with.
From what I heard, while photographing her training course and talking to Bridget about what she does is surprisingly fascinating and I’ve picked up a few tip bits to apply when cleaning!
Thanks so much to Julie Sucksmith for teeing everything up for the shoot and helping out on the day too!
Tags: Business portraits, commercial corporate photographer, commercial photographer, commercial portraits, corporate portraits, melbourne commercial photographer, melbourne corporate portrait
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
These portraits are of Tess Evans. Tess needed some portrait photographs which she could use to promote her new book which will be to be published by Allen and Unwin on the 31st of May. It’s titled Book of Lost Threads. Tess was an absolute pleasure to meet and work with, so I am really looking forward to reading her novel.
I haven’t had much of a chance to blog post many of the recent commercial portraits and commercial work I’ve been doing recently. Being in the mist of the wedding season makes it difficult to do extra things like blog! I will endeavour to post more images here though!
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
I am a self-confessed stationery addict. I’m not sure what it is about stationery, but I am sure it’s something you either love or don’t particularly care about. I definitely love it. I love to pick it up; I love using big loopy handwriting to write a letter, jot down thoughts or ideas or doodle kid-like illustrations. When you meet people who’ve made stationary their business, I naturally think it’s a sign of good character. Matt and Scott of Telegram are just that. Genuinely lovely, they seem to always have me in fits and giggles, possibly not because they are particularly “funny” but they make you feel so relaxed and are so welcoming you can’t help but laugh and have a good time!
Telegram are importers/distributors of paper goods which they carefully hand pick from local and international designers (and even have a hand in designing some themselves). When I photographed them recently, they were really excited about a beautiful world map they’d commissioned – project they were clearly passionate about. It is so inspiring to meet people who are passionate about what they do.
Tags: business portrait, business profile photograph, Melbourne Portrait photographer, portrait photograph, portrait photographer melbourne
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Most often in Japan cities are filled with national chains. The same coffee shops, restaurants, isakayas (Japanese pub for eating and drinking), department stores and the like can be found in every city. When I lived in Japan I used to go to one Isakaya which I thought was so individual and cute. I discovered on this trip, when in Hiroshima 700km away that my quaint isakaya was also part of a national chain. So that is why it is really cool, when you come across cafes, restaurants and bars which are owner operated and have their own unique individuality. Quite often you are serviced by the owner who is quite open to a chat over the counter. I think these guys are always pretty cool, becasue they have steped outside the square and chosen to do something quite different in a place where you are often expected to follow the crowd.
These are some photographs I took of a cafe in Kyoto, Japan of the owner Takaaki Matsumoto and his cafe Ichigo Ichie. It is tucked away in the inner suburban sprawl of Kyoto and is a welcoming front of colour in a sprawling mass of 3 storey apartment buildings.
Tags: Cafe, Cafe owner, commercial photographer, commercial photography, Japan, Japanese Cafe, Kyoto Japan, Melbourne professional photographer, portrait photography
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