Headshot Photoshoot Day!

Invest in high-quality up-to-date professional headshot photos that look like you AND that you love!

Just five 2 spots available | Saturday 25th May

Tabitha Arthur is your expert headshot photographer if you:

  • Want headshots you love! (No more cringing over your LinkedIn profile photo)

  • Feel nervous and want expert guidance in front of the camera

  • Want to show up as authentically you and not an AI generated version of not-quite-you

  • Value quality experiences and results

Each headshot session includes:

  • Camera-ready makeup application by a professional Makeup Artist.

  • 30 minute professional headshot studio photoshoot. You will be expertly guided and photographed by one of Wellington’s top portrait photographers, Tabitha Arthur.

  • Immediate image review and selection of your favourites.

  • Two professionally edited digital images, with the ability to purchase more.

  • Multiple wardrobe changes.

  • Extra guidance prior to your photoshoot, including: a 15 minute call with Tabitha; digital PDF inspiration and prep guide; and helpful emails to help you arrive at your photoshoot prepared.

Let's start!

Special Headshot Day: Enquire now

LIMITED: ONE DAY ONLY. JUST FIVE 2 SPOTS AVAILABLE.

Value $1450
Special pricing $890

Special headshot day pricing is $890 +GST

Fill out this helpful form - or email me hello@tabithaarthur.com - so I can give you personalised information about the perfect photography experience for you.

Either myself or my wonderful Studio Manager Amy will reply within the next 24-48 hours during business hours.

Jarna Whiting, Hair & Makeup Artist, Wellington

“It was the first time I had got my photo taken. It was such an empowering experience.

I felt uncomfortable, but Tabitha encouraged me, she showed me empathy. And it’s being around women like that creates community and care rather than competition, or criticism.

I actually got so emotional when I saw my photos ‘cos I I feel really uncomfortable being photographed. I realised that I spend a lot of time making other people feel beautiful and I’m beautiful regardless of what I do for a living - and it’s all based on the internal environment I create in my mind and who I am as a person.

If you have an opportunity to get a headshot done by Tabitha... Get on it. Stop doubting yourself and book in those headshots!!!

I put off doing my headshots, and ohhh my gosh what an experience. What an experience Tabitha creates. Get on it. Do it! Do it, do it, do it.”

These limited special headshot sessions are perfect if you:

Don’t want to sacrifice quality

but need only a couple of headshots and not a full session.

Keen to ‘test the waters’

before investing in a full shoot or if it’s our first time working together.

Want a few quick updates

to complement your existing photos.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • If you are a professional ready to next-level their profile headshot photos - and you love the headshots I take - then it sounds like you would be a great fit! Get in touch and we can have a chat to make sure all your questions are answered, and you feel certain.

  • My Headshot Session Days are available once every two months. I do recommend booking in advance so you can secure your preferred time in our busy calendar.

    A headshot session lasts up to 1.5 hours including professional makeup application at my studio and up to 30 minutes camera time.

  • You’ll receive helpful emails with tips; a digital prep guide; a strategy call with me; guidance on what to wear - up to three top changes; makeup application at my studio with one of my preferred professional Artists; a fully guided and coached headshot photoshoot session; selection of your favourite headshots immediately after your photoshoot; professionally edited high and low resolution digital images ready for you to use; bonus guidance to help you get the most out of using your new headshots.

  • So I offer my clients the highest quality service - and I am so hecking proud of the service we provide! - I am supported by my wonderful Studio Manager Amy, my talented Makeup Artists, and my attention-to-detail retoucher who edits just like I do so my clients can feel that extra level of confidence in the quality of their images.

  • The total Headshot Session fee is $890 +GST. This includes two digital images. Additional images may be purchased separately on the day.

  • My clients choose to do one of two options to suit them best:

    A. They pay for the full $890 +GST fee on booking to secure their spot..

    B. To secure their spot and spread out their payments a little, they pay 50% of the full fee on booking, with the balance due two weeks before their session to secure their spot. If unable to pay in full two weeks before, we may need to move your headshot session to a future date. Headshot Days are scheduled once every two months.

  • Once you decide that - heck yeah! - you want the best headshot photo experience ever, you take care of the booking fee invoice of $890 +GST to secure your date, and we kick off the process! I’ll send you helpful emails and links so you will have all your questions answered, and we’ll arrange a strategy call where I answer any burning questions so you can feel prepared leading up to your photoshoot.

  • You just need to rock up with your hair already styled, and a clean, moisturised face with zero makeup - my professional makeup artist will have a good chat with you to find out what you would like - from super natural to a little more glam, this is about how you would like to look in your photos. Then you can relax and enjoy this complimentary pamper time while she gets you camera-ready!

  • When you contact me about getting professional headshots, it’s part of my service that I send you a digital PDF magazine giving helpful advice on what to wear, the packages I offer, and styling tips.

    You will have time for up to three changes of top, so you have variety to choose from.

    We can also have a good chat about this on your strategy call if you would like.

    Remember to transport your tops on hangers in a suit bag, and hang the bag up in the car to avoid crumpling. Note that even t-shirts carefully folded up will sneakily get creases.

  • Multiple studies have found we have mere seconds to make a good – or bad – first impression. One study even found it took 1/10 of a second! Those must’ve been some judgy-judgy people in that survey…

    Regardless, we’ve all heard the saying “first impressions count”, and while you might be the nicest, most reliable, perfect human that has ever walked this beautiful earth, if your headshots aren’t capturing this, then that potential dream employer may pass you on by quick-smart.

    Yep, we all have days where we shove our hair into a messy bun (and I’m not talking about a stylish TikTok 30 minute styled version - I mean the get-this-hair-off-my-face-stat version). We are all mooching around in our comfy not-for-public-view clothes when working from home.

    Your headshot photos will help you look like that aspirational version of yourself you aspire to be, and designed to draw your ideal employer or recruiter o you - this is YOU on a good day, where you’ve had enough sleep, drunk all the water, and your Inbox is zero.

    Be a cool nerd – do your homework. Look through lots of other headshot imagery to get an idea of what outfits look best to your eye, and the look/s you want to portray. Consider your target audience – who are you wanting to work with, and what do you want them to think? We can also have a chat about this on our strategy phone call, and I provide a PDF guide to help as well.

    I also share details for one of my absolute fav Personal Stylists if you desire extra help with what to wear.

  • You will receive two digital images included in your headshot fee. Each image will come as both low and high resolution to suit your various needs.

    If you love more than two images (and most people do - I’m really good at getting great photos of you! -you will have the opportunity to purchase additional images on the day.

    Additional images will be just $250 +GST each, or take advantage of our on-the-day special and buy two and get one free!

  • First up, know that what you are feeling is very human. 99.99% of my clients feel some sort of nerves thinking about having their photo taken: from nervous-excited through to barely even making it to my studio and shaking and sweating so much!

    Now you might be looking at the photos of my clients and thinking they look super relaxed / confident / authentically themselves, there’s no way they were as nervous as you..! Please know that most - almost ALL of them - felt that same way.

    My clients will tell you that they focussed on just getting themselves to my studio on the day of their photoshoot - and that I guided them through everything from there.

    You may not believe it right now, I know with absolute certainty that you will be able to do it, too.

    At some point during their photoshoot, many of my nervous clients find themselves exclaiming “This is so much fun! Everyone should do this!”. I always reply - “Please let them know that, because I could bang on about this all day, but it’s not until they experience it for themselves that they believe it!”

  • I will photograph you on a white background and a dark background, like you see in the images above.

    You will be guided through different poses and expressions so you have a fantastic variety to select from in a short space of time.

    Even if you feel nervous about being photographed, I have tips and tricks to help you get the best headshots you’ve ever had!

Richard Falkner, Actor, and Writer, Creator, Archivist, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision, Wellington

“I’ve had several fantastic experiences with Tabitha, and her work is second to none.

She is incredibly friendly and supportive through what can be an unsettling process for anyone. Her skills in behind the camera, combined with her ability to put people at ease and coach them towards great shots result in excellent pictures.

[In Tabitha you have a] headshot provider that is without parallel in my experience of 20+ years of getting headshots.”