Personal Branding Photography

Most folk book 2-3 months out from when they want their photos, which gives them time to plan strategically with my guidance.

In saying that, I have photographed people within just a few days of them contacting me!

I do recommend booking in advance so you can secure your preferred date in our busy calendar.

A typical session lasts up to 3.5 hours including makeup and hair styling. We also offer a full day option.

We have your deliciously-anticipated image viewing and selection appointment 1-2 weeks after your photoshoot.

Your digital images will be professionally edited and this process takes up to 2 weeks.

This is the photo experience of dreams!

You'll receive helpful emails with tips; a digital prep guide; links to curated moodboards for inspiration; a strategy call with me; guidance on what to wear and props to bring; makeup and hair styling at my studio with one of my preferred professional Artists; a fully guided and coached photoshoot session; a much-anticipated image viewing and selection appointment where I take away the overwhelm that a gallery does, makes it more efficient, and supports you in choosing the images you want in your new personal branding image bank; professionally edited high and low resolution digital images ready for you to use; bonus guidance to kick-start using your power-packed new assets.

I offer the highest quality personal brand photography experience, and I am supported by my wonderful Studio Manager Amy, my talented H&MU Artists, and my attention-to-detail retoucher who edits just like I do so you can feel that extra level in the quality of your images.

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 booking fee invoice is required within 24 hours to secure your session time and date.

The booking fee is $1890 +GST, which includes $1000 credit towards your photos. Images are purchased separately.

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 $1890 +gst includes $1000 credit towards your photos; 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 +GST.

You can choose to do one of three options to suit you best:

A. Pay for an image collection in advance - and get a bonus image or three! This is cool because can spread their payments out at your convenience between when you book and when you select their photos.

B. Wait until you see the photos at your image viewing and selection appointment, and then pay your invoice in one go.

C. Use our finance option, Fee Funders. This means you can have longer to pay. Fee Funders charges a normal fee.

Once you decide that - heck yeah! - you want the best photo experience ever, you take care of the booking fee invoice 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 guide you through a series of savvy questions designed to get clear so we can capture amazing brand photos for you.

You just need to rock up with unstyled dry hair, and zero makeup - my professional hair & makeup artist (HMUA) will have a good chat with you to find out what you would like - from natural to glam - and then you can relax and enjoy this pamper time.

My HMUA stays for your photoshoot to ensure shine control, that your hair is sitting right, and as another cheerleader - we are here to help you get photos you love and the help you feel incredible.

When you book to get professional personal branding and headshots, I'll also send you a digital PDF magazine giving helpful advice on what to wear, the packages I offer, and styling tips.

We can also have a good chat about this on an initial phone call.

Important and helpful tip: Bring clothes pre-ironed and ready to wear. Transport your clothes on hangers in a suit bag, and hang the bag up in the car to avoid crumpling.

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 brand photography isn’t capturing this, then that potential client 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 personal branding images will help you look like that aspirational version of yourself you aspire to be, and designed to draw your ideal clients to 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 personal branding imagery to get an idea of what looks best to your eye, and the look/s you want to portray. We will also have an excellent chat about this on our consultation phone call, and I provide links to my curated Pinterest boards and helpful PDF guide to help as well.

Consider your target audience – who are you wanting to work with, and what do you want them to think? We will go over all of this and more on our consultation phone call.

I also share details for one of my absolute fav Personal Stylists, if you’d like specialist help.

Personal branding requires digital images for brands to use online and offline, from your website to billboards, ads, your profile photo, and so much more. We provide amazing packages especially for personal branding needs, including high resolution files.

People find that one or two or more of their images give them a particular lift - they feel aspirational seeing that version of themselves.

Having a framed print of yourself for the wall is something many people choose to do, and I provide this fantastic complete print solution for you, should you wish.

You do not need to make any decisions until you view your images at your image viewing and ordering appointment, around one to two weeks after your photoshoot.

With the opening of our new Wellington city studio in May 2025, we are pleased to offer simple, beautiful video content for web use, alongside our signature portrait photography.

This includes B-roll - especially popular for website headers and backgrounds, reels and stories backgrounds; and short talking-to-camera videos.

Note that adding video with talking elements can require a full day session due to the additional requirements.

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!”

Our studio is based in Wellington city.

Our national clients come to us from all around New Zealand - from Auckland to Christchurch and beyond.

Our international clients have travelled to us from across Australia, Singapore, and London, England.