Teens and Grads Portraits

Your hair and make up will be all done for you by one of my favourite experienced Hair & Makeup Artists at my studio. They will enhance your features and make you look and feel like you want to show up in your professional photos.

You will look so gooood you might want to have a fab night out! Book a hot date or fun night out with your besties for after your shoot to make to most of your gorgeous hair styling & makeup!

Breathe a sigh of relief: you do not need to know how to act in front of the camera. Posing is something I take care of!

I have studied and practised to ensure I capture the most flattering angles for you. No matter your personal concerns – body size, shape, age, limited mobility, whatever your concerns are, I look after you and ensure I position you in ways that look and feel amazing.

It is my mission to take the best photo you have seen of yourself, so you feel proud and confident putting them out into the world and showing up online

If you have any concerns, please feel free to talk with me about them – I am here for you.

Absolutely! The photography I create is fine art style artwork for your home. This is a special image to record a moment in time of you and your loved ones together. These images will become more valuable to you as the years go by, making them ideal for special family photos.

The experience of having your hair and make up done makes this perfect for a girl's day out, or for sisters and mothers to share in a special experience together.

Couple shoots are also available. I take individual photos of you, as well as of the two of you together.

These sessions make the ideal gift for mothers, grandmothers, best friends, newly-engaged couples, wedding anniversaries, or as a personal investment in YOU.

Your session booking fee is $550 covers your hair and make up, with additional people just $150 each.

To book, I start with a consultation – we can do this on the phone, or or a video call if you prefer. It a good idea to chat and get to know each other – you need to know your photographer feels like a great fit for you!

When you are ready to book, payment of your invoice is required within 24 hours to secure your session time and date.

My shoot days are office hours during the working week. Saturdays are by special request and attract an additional $350 +GST fee and are rarely available.

My clients are extremely important to me. I create a first-class experience, and professionally-crafted portraits. This is an opportunity to invest in yourself – to know that you are enough and embrace your true beauty.

Your booking fee of $550 includes a personal pre-shoot phone consultation to discuss all the questions you might have; wardrobe consult to select what you will wear for the session; a beautiful makeover with a hair & make up artist; your personalised studio photoshoot session; professional editing; the image viewing and ordering appointment for your stunning photos. Images are purchased separately.

For more details on what is included, pricing, and more, please click here.

Additional hair & make up $150 per person per photo session.

One image viewing and ordering appointment is included. Please ensure all decision makers are there. Additional viewings are $250 per appointment.

Weekend fee: Weekend sessions are very scare. Weekend sessions attract an additional fee of $350.

Prices exclude GST.

You will absolutely love your images, and will be tempted to buy them all! Many clients love the option of paying off over time, so I have introduced the option to pre-pay for a collection.

Pre-paying makes for a fantastic gift, such as 21st birthdays, graduation, anniversaries, and other milestones.

By paying in advance of the photoshoot, you may be entitled to some bonuses, from $300 to up to over $7650 value! So it just makes sense to do this.

Bringing one friend with you can be helpful if you’re feeling super nervous. As long as that friend will cheer you on behind the scenes, and not take the focus from it being all about YOU.

My team and myself take care of your touch ups and posing, so if your friend is happy to watch and you feel calmer having her there, that is great!

If she wants her own session back-to-back with yours, that’s even better! Let’s book her in!

I allow just the one friend with you. Unless this is specifically booked and planned to be a couple’s shoot, I don’t allow partners, boyfriends, husbands to be in the room the whole time, as this experience needs to be all about you.

If you want to have a couple of photos with your partner, we can arrange for them to come near the end of your session for your photos together.

My philosophy on retouching is: Temporary visitors (aka pimples, bruises, scratches) can go jump in the sea! Permanent features (freckles – face stars! – moles, scars, wisdom lines, etc) can absolutely stay – they are part of what makes us unique and hold our own beauty.

I am often asked about lines and wrinkles, and body shape. I use flattering light so wrinkles appear very soft and light, and flattering poses to define and shape the body.

If you have any requests, such as lightning the appearance of wrinkles, or taking care of smoothing out bumps that you don’t love, just let me know.

While we strive to be feminist body-positive powerhouses, we are very human, and we want to feel bloody great about ourselves! I am onboard with making you feeling bloody great!

I provide a thoughtful and comprehensive digital magazine with loads of helpful tips including: book a hair appointment for the week before to get those roots touched up; get your nails done a day or two before; go through your wardrobe and pick out what you want to wear – if that gorgeous dress you never get to wear doesn’t zip up at the back, bring it anyway! You can’t tell in a still photograph! Ask me for my magazine.

I prefer clients didn’t spray tan especially for the shoot – streaks and orange vibes and tan lines and white hands and feet and white faces/orange bodies are just not worth it! Unless you always get faux tans, embracing the skin you’re in wins, hands down. Give your skin a good buffing, and remember to moisturise before your shoot.

Sometimes my clients have a location in mind for their photos.

We generally begin by finding out who their ideal audience is they’re wanting to connect with, and what story they want to tell in their photos. Most of the time, we discover that it would work better for them to come to my studio.

Due to over 20 years experience in photographing people, I have chosen to specialise doing this at my studio:

- I can control the weather (Wellington wind, anyone?)

- It’s always a great temperature and never rains inside my studio (um, hi again Wellington)

- The lighting is always flattering and gorgeous. Whether the day is bright and sunny or cloudy or stormy - or all of the above on one day (looking at you again Wellington…) - I achieve consistency with my professional studio strobe lighting.

- No nosey parkers! It’s private and you won’t need to worry about random people distracting you during your photoshoot.

- You don’t have to clean and tidy your home! I take care of the backgrounds and set ups so you can just focus on any props and what you want to wear.

- Get away from your every day. Your photoshoot is an investment in you - feel pampered and uplifted in my wee sanctuary where you can relax and have fun!