Author Allison O’Neill has a new book in the works and she wanted an updated headshot for her website and other promo materials. She didn’t need anything too fancy or overly creative,  just a good solid studio headshot. Allison was a lot of fun to work with in the studio, and she has amazing big [...]

A little while ago I posted about doing a location scout on Christchurch’s Port Hills for an upcoming portrait session. The client needed a promo shot for her business website – a consultancy that assists people in applying to immigrate to New Zealand – and she wanted to have some interesting local New Zealand scenery [...]

This morning I went location scouting up on the Port Hills. In a couple of weeks I’m doing some headshots for a businesswoman who owns a New Zealand immigration advisory service, helping people who want to immigrate to New Zealand with navigating the paperwork and processes involved. For her website she wants a photo of [...]

I can’t count the number of times I’ve clicked on the ‘About Me’ page of an otherwise professional website and cringed at the out-of-focus snapshot being used for the headshot. Why go to all the trouble of designing a nice website only to let it down with a lackluster photo? I was in Auckland recently [...]

Christchurch couple Colin and Sharyn took advantage of my recent Summer Nights special offer to have some portraits done in the city centre. Here’s a selection of the best photos. I looooove Sharyn’s dress and shoes!

Always put the sun behind your subject. For one thing, it means they won’t be squinting in the picture. But another reason is to get cool backlight effects. Usually you can get a nice bit of rim lighting or some nice highlights on the hair, but when the sun is very low and you stick [...]

Last night Brence and I spent some time tidying up the home studio and putting up a new dark background I made of navy blue fabric. I fired off some test shots of Brence to see what it looked like – and it looks pretty good and works well in colour or b&w. We started [...]

Frederique and Oakley recently got engaged, and they took advantage of my ‘Summer Nights’ portraiture special to have some engagement portraits done. Fred told me that as well as being engagement portraits, she wanted the pictures to be a snapshot of their lives in Christchurch right now. Fred is originally from Montreal, Oakley is from [...]

I recently did a lifestyle family portrait photoshoot at the beautiful Riccarton House grounds in Christchurch. Kat and her mum Mandy were over from the UK visiting Kat’s sister Emma, who lives in New Zealand. It’s rare that these three lovely ladies are together, and Kat and Emma bought the photo session package for their mum [...]

I went to visit my friend Jos and her wee boy Seb at Hagley Park today. I had my 5D with 70-200mm lens with me and grabbed a few shots of them feeding the ducks. Seb is quite entranced by the ducks and would have liked to have petted one I’m sure!