Bangalow Airbnb Photography for The Strand Studio Apartment
What a difference professional photography can make to the feel of your Airbnb, before your guests even arrive. Don’t skimp on photography after you’ve spent hours upon hours creating the perfect holiday accomodation.
What a difference professional photography can make to the feel of your Airbnb, before your guests even arrive. Don’t skimp on photography after you’ve spent hours upon hours creating the perfect holiday accommodation.
Book this beautiful Northern NSW Airbnb in Bangalow here.
Byron Bay Airbnb Photography for Ranger Property
I adore shooting these clever properties, thoughtful Renos by this talented duo, not spending outrageous amounts as they are all intended for Airbnb, but my gosh do they look good after their make overs, head over to their instagram for before and afters.
I adore shooting these clever properties, thoughtful Renos by this talented duo, not spending outrageous amounts as they are all intended for Airbnb, but my gosh do they look good after their make overs, head over to their instagram for before and afters.
Tweed Heads Airbnb Photography for Endeavour Holiday Homes
Such a pleasure to photograph all 3 of these holiday accommodations for Endeavour Holiday Homes, all available on Airbnb. Located in Tweed Heads and Kirra.
Find out more here: https://endeavourholiday.com
Such a pleasure to photograph all 3 of these holiday accommodations for Endeavour Holiday Homes, all available on Airbnb. Located in Tweed Heads and Kirra.
Find out more here: https://endeavourholiday.com
Property 1
Property 2
Property 3
Gold Coast Studio Product Photography for Hardware Concepts
In my element, styling up these beauties to photograph them in studio light.
This shoot was all put together in my own photography studio.
Find out more about this new business here: https://www.hardwareconcepts.com.au
In my element, styling up these beauties to photograph them in studio light.
This shoot was all put together in my own photography studio.
Find out more about this new business here: https://www.hardwareconcepts.com.au
Gold Coast Product Photography for UD Furniture
On going product shoots for UD Furniture, photographing their sofa collection … styling each piece to better showcase the quality and style of their sofas.
On going product shoots for UD Furniture, photographing their sofa collection … styling each piece to better showcase the quality and style of their sofas.
Northern Rivers Product Photography for The Trove Kollective
Switching up the ‘all white everything’ product photography for this newly launched homewares brand, The Trove Kollective … client very happy with the moody look end result of this shoot.
Switching up the ‘all white everything’ product photography for this newly launched homewares brand, The Trove Kollective … client very happy with the moody look end result of this shoot.
Gold Coast Penthouse, Interior Photography for Designer, Jim Mullins
Such a pleasure to photograph another beautiful project by Jim Mullins.
Captured in a 4 hr shoot, props and styling included, the client came away with 30 photos.
Such a pleasure to photograph another beautiful project by Jim Mullins.
Captured in a 4 hr shoot, props and styling included, the client came away with 30 photos.
Queensland Homes Magazine feature - Photography of Jacinta Platt's Casuarina Home
Forever my favourite subject to photograph ... the beautiful work of Design Scout Interiors … Jacinta Platt’s own recently renovated Casuarina home was no exception. We were both so thrilled to have it published in Queensland Homes magazine last month ... see even more of this home on Jacinta’s website, Design Scout Interiors.
Forever my favourite subject to photograph ... the beautiful work of Design Scout Interiors … Jacinta Platt’s own recently renovated Casuarina home was no exception. We were both so thrilled to have it published in Queensland Homes magazine last month ... see even more of this home on Jacinta’s website, Design Scout Interiors.
How to get the best out of your professional photo shoot - 12 tips for working with a photographer
Are you about to pay big dollars for a professional photo shoot of your latest project or products?
Here’s a check list to make sure you get the most out of your shoot with your chosen photographer.
Are you about to pay big dollars for a professional photo shoot of your latest project or products?
Here’s a check list to make sure you get the most out of your shoot with your chosen photographer.
Communication is key, be in contact ALOT … when you have ideas, give your photographer a call … send your photographer things you see online that you love, give your photographer a very very clear BRIEF of how you envision the shoot, what you hope for out of the shoot.
Make sure the owners of the location you are shooting at, are comfortable and ready for anything … shoot days can get messy! but it’s all tidy and clean just as quick at the end of the day. (it’s even better if you can get the home owners out for the day, so to not distract from the shoot, if possible).
Make sure the location is clean, if that means getting a cleaner in the day before … do it. If you are spending the money to shoot there, you want the place spotless. (Your photographer likely costs more per hour than a cleaner, you don’t want them having to clean anything in the time they could be focusing on the job for you, and getting more photographs for you).
Lighting … is so so so important, if you have the time and the budget (and this is not always possible), allow for the photographer to do a scout of the location to assess the lighting at the location. This way the photographer will be able to mark out the shots, to prepare, to be ready in those positions at the right time of day to get the best natural light on to each shot. Alternatively do a full day shoot, so that you can make the most of both morning and afternoon light. Don’t rush the shoot, allow the photographer time to nail every single shot. (again this all depends on budget and sometimes this is just not possible).
Greenery! real life, fresh greenery … wether you are able to bring the right pieces from your backyard or need to purchase some the morning of the shoot (or of course ask your stylist to source this for you … greenery makes a huge difference to the feel of a photograph … it brings more ‘life’ … wether it’s product campaign shoot or an interior shoot.
Bedding and cushions … full and fluffy is best, thick inners that look lustrous, down feather inserts for decorative cushions on sofas are also a must … it makes the space look like you’ve spent that much more money on it and it is worth it.
Coffee table books and plenty of vases are also very very handy. (being both a stylist AND photographer I will supply these items for my shoots).
Don’t rush the editing … don’t leave your shoot to close to your product launch date, give your photographer time to do a really great job of the editing, not a rushed job. If there is a specific date you will need the photos by, make sure your photographer knows this when you first book the shoot in, so that they can allow time in their shooting schedule, the editing time they will need to complete your photos in time. (I currently work at a 2 week turn around)
Make sure your photographer is aware if the ‘view’ out of the windows is important to the shots, or if you prefer it wasn’t a focus at all.
Providing inspiration … wether that’s a page in a magazine, something from pinterest or instagram. Anything that you find that has your ‘vision’ share it with your photographer, make sure you are both on the same page, well before the shoot. Wether this is inspiring for styling, or inspiring for composition and lighting.
Do you want to have people in the photos? just a suggestion of human life? a full figure in the distance, a hand turning on a tap … adding that ‘life’ element to a shoot can be game changing for your marketing … and this needs to be prepared before the shoot … who is going to stand in, what do you have in mind for how the space is represented with human life? These shots also take a late longer to get right, so you need to allow time for these (in some cases these shots can double the time on location, which in my opinion is so worth it, the engagement of a shot with people in it, is huge.)
Where are the photos going to be used, make sure your photographer is aware if you need a really long skinning ‘landscape’ orientated shot for your website banner … or if all the photos are for instagram and you plan on posting them all ‘square’ … maybe you’d love to see the project in a magazine, so the shots need to be mostly ‘portrait’ orientation … communication with your photographer of all your hopes for your shoot together is so so important, don’t be afraid to be telling them everything.
Bonus Tip … have fun with it, shoot days are usually the final detail of a project, an exciting time for you and your business, enjoy seeing your completed project or product looking it’s very best, your photographer wants your project/product to shine.
And if you’ve done all that, your experience with your photographer and shooting your project or products should all go to plan, with no troubles at all.
Wether you are a photographer or a client of a photographer reading this … is there anything else you think would be helpful to add to this list, don’t hesitate to contact me.
Burleigh Heads Interior Photography for Designer, Jim Mullins
What a pleasure it has been visiting the completed interior projects of Jim Mullins, to photograph these beautiful homes on the Gold Coast.
What a pleasure it has been visiting the completed interior projects of Jim Mullins, to photograph these beautiful homes on the Gold Coast.
Bangalow Airbnb Photography for Ranger Property
What an absolute pleasure it was to photograph Bask in Bangalow with Ranger Property ... Dayle or Nuni Wellness and Josh of Urban Spaces Building Co, did a marvellous job of this beautiful home ... it’s available for holidays now on Airbnb.
What an absolute pleasure it was to photograph Bask in Bangalow with Ranger Property ... Dayle or Nuni Wellness and Josh of Urban Spaces Building Co, did a marvellous job of this beautiful home ... it’s available for holidays now on Airbnb.
Gold Coast - Branding Photography for The Star Casino & The Darling
A team of 8+ people to complete this shoot. Working with stylist Lyndel Miller, and her lovely assistant Tahlia Isla.
And my last shoot with my beautiful assistant Cara Lee (before she started her exciting new full time job).
A 1 day shoot, the client came away with 60 photos.
The Star and The Darling, Casino in Broadbeach, on the Gold Coast, photographed for Hardie Grant Media.
A team of 8+ people to complete this shoot. Working with stylist Lyndel Miller, and her lovely assistant Tahlia Isla.
And my last shoot with my beautiful assistant Cara Lee (before she started her exciting new full time job).
A 1 day shoot, the client came away with 60 photos.
The Star and The Darling, Casino in Broadbeach, on the Gold Coast, photographed for Hardie Grant Media.
BGM Stone
Another awesome trade … up levelling their marketing. So happy with the small businesses doing this on the coast, their hard work deserves to be shown off and I’m so glad I can play a small part in that.
BGM stone, talented stone masons based in Northern NSW, asked me to photograph two of their recent projects (they also purchased photos from me, of previous jobs I had photographed of theirs, for other trades). To fill their brand new website with fresh professional photography (which makes all the difference, and can make or break a website … the photography is so so important).
Another awesome trade … up levelling their marketing. So happy with the small businesses doing this on the coast, their hard work deserves to be shown off and I’m so glad I can play a small part in that.
BGM stone, talented stone masons based in Northern NSW, asked me to photograph two of their recent projects (they also purchased photos from me, of previous jobs I had photographed). To fill their brand new website with fresh professional photography (which makes all the difference, and can make or break a website … the photography is so so important).
These two homes were beautiful! … and I would love to actually go back and photograph the entire homes.
Quality work by the BGM Stone team.
Gold Coast Architectural Photography of The Corner House for Design Scout Interiors
If you haven’t already heard about The Corner House, I highly recommend checking it out, it has been so well received and talked about her on the Gold Coast.
This interior photo shoot was completed for Design Scout Interiors, such a pleasure to see this teams work come to life. A beautiful home and a joy to photograph.
If you haven’t already heard about The Corner House, I highly recommend checking it out, it has been so well received and talked about her on the Gold Coast.
This interior photo shoot was completed for Design Scout Interiors, such a pleasure to see this teams work come to life. A beautiful home and a joy to photograph.
Words from Jacinta Platt about this beautiful home:
“The new display home by Sanctuary 28 is the epitome of refined luxury. It has texture, detail and richness yet feels comfortable and homely, all reasons why this home just took out the Master Builders QLD award for a Display Home.”
Interior Finishes + Furniture: Design Scout Interiors
Architect: Paul Uhlman Architects
Builder: Sanctuary 28
Surface Textiles
Flat lays and detail photography for a beautiful new fabric business, Surface Textiles based in Brisbane.
Backdrops/prop hire and styling all apart of the service.
I have been working with this talented team in their office/studio in Brisbane bringing to life their fabrics in ‘room’ settings, but for this shoot they simply posted the fabric samples to me, and I used my own home photography studio to create these shots (using props I already had on hand in my studio).
Flat lays and detail photography for a beautiful new fabric business, Surface Textiles based in Brisbane.
Backdrops/prop hire and styling all apart of the service.
I have been working with this talented team in their office/studio in Brisbane bringing to life their fabrics in ‘room’ settings, but for this shoot they simply posted the fabric samples to me, and I used my own home photography studio to create these shots (using props I already had on hand in my studio).
Ranger Property
The latest addition to the beautiful collection of properties by Ranger Property Byron. This one particularly in the best location! … So wonderful to see the work that has gone into making this place so lovely!
A fun shoot on sunny day! Thanks for having me Tania.
The latest addition to the beautiful collection of properties by Ranger Property Byron. This one particularly in the best location! … So wonderful to see the work that has gone into making this place so lovely!
A fun shoot on sunny day! Thanks for having me Tania.
Looking forward to seeing more properties by Tania and her team soon.
Paper Rokk
What a wonderful surprise to arrive to this shoot with magical sunlight beaming through the windows! (the shoot was organised very last minute the day before).
A great team, and awesome space for this bubbly business.
What a wonderful surprise to arrive to this shoot with magical sunlight beaming through the windows! (the shoot was organised very last minute the day before).
A great team, and awesome space for this bubbly business.
The shoot was 2 hrs long with a 7am start, before they opened to clients for the day … Brooke came away with 30 photos, a mixture of shots of the interior (with and with out people) candid photos, team photos and profile photos.
See more of my hair salon photography here.
Piers Hasler - Hope Island Penthouse
Such a pleasure to photograph this dark and moody Hope Island Penthouse for the talented Piers Hasler.
Such a pleasure to photograph this dark and moody Hope Island Penthouse for the talented Piers Hasler.
The Bay Hair Co
It was nice to see just how much I have learnt and taught myself in the past 12 months … for the past 7 years that I have had my business I have always offered a lot of different services …
I was so thrilled to have the opportunity to photograph The Bay Hair Co again … I first shot this property in March 2019. The Bay Hair Co asked me back again recently, because they’ve added a new member to their team … I took the opportunity to reshoot the interior (as well as getting fresh profile shots).
It was nice to see just how much I have learnt and taught myself in the past 12 months … for the past 7 years that I have had my business I have always offered a lot of different services … which has included marketing, social media managing, graphic design, website building, interior styling and interior design … going with what ever was asked of me by clients, taking what ever work was coming in … and in the past 3 years, as I have switched to part time work (since having my babies) … I just couldn’t do it all anymore … photography was the stand out skill, that I was most needed by my clients for. So I went with that … and honestly it has been the best thing I could of done (and probably should of done a lot earlier) … focusing on photography, has meant learning so so so much in the past few years … for something I have been doing for such a long time, there was still so much to learn … and i’m sure I will always be learning more and more and more … Interior Photography is still my priority, but I have definitely expanding my photography skills to include portrait/candid photography for small business, flat lays, product vignettes … architecture and exteriors … all of these areas helping to make my overall photography skills better … I think my advantage has always been that I come from an interior design background … and can easily switch from stylist to photographer and back again when I need to, but finally focusing on photography as my main work priority has meant a huge difference in the quality of my work, and I couldn’t be happier.
Zephyr Coffee and Co
There are 6 blends to choose from … available to purchase online and inside their cafe of course. (head to their website to find out more about their variety of blends.)
I had the opportunity to spend some time in their cafe this week child free, snapping photos of Justin and another very familiar face to locals,
My Kirra local cafe fav. zephyrcoffeeco.com.au
We’ve always been breakfast people, but having kids made this even more so. We are a sucker for a good breaky with friends and family, over dinner out.
Owners, Justin & Mandie (and their beautiful daughter Mila, born just 2 weeks earlier then our Cash) have created the perfect little hot spot in Kirra, a popular little cafe, it is always bustling! … not just a cafe though … they do their own coffee roasting. Using state of the art technology to perfect an age old tradition of coffee roasting. Air roasting coffee to precision allows them to explore all the best qualities of the coffee bean. They source only highest quality of beans from around the world.
There are 6 blends to choose from … available to purchase online and inside their cafe of course. (head to their website to find out more about their variety of blends.)
I had the opportunity to spend some time in their cafe this week child free, snapping photos of Justin and another very familiar face to locals, Alex (who has worked at Zephyr since the very beginning). During this COVID time, they have only just been allowed to put a couple of chairs out, and we are all hoping they will be back to normal operating soon. I can’t wait to see this place full of life again (though the takeaways have certainly kept them busy).
Photographing just some of their delicious menu too … browse my food photography for Zephyr Coffee Co below, taking a ‘winter’ approach to this shoot as we enter the cooler months.
Are you interested in my food photography and styling services? … or would you like to learn how to photograph your menu yourself? I offer one on one photography workshops, or can do the work for you. Shoot prices starts at $600. (props included).