No pressure when your beautiful client travels 5.5 hours to work with you!!

“When I had the idea to get a photoshoot done for my business website, I hunted high and low for a photographer that I’d feel comfortable working with. My intuition told me Miranda was the ONE – so I travelled from the other side of the state (some 5.5 hours away!) to have the session with her. It felt completely crazy – but I’m so glad I listened to my guidance, because it was completely worth it.

Miranda not only made me feel comfortable during the shoot, she made me feel amazing! She continually gave me instructions during the shoot on how to pose, reminded me to smile and boosted my self esteem. I felt confident, beautiful and free to be me. That’s quite a feat, given how introverted and camera-shy I am! I’m surprised how much I actually enjoyed the shoot.

Afterwards, I still felt nervous about how the photos would turn out. Thankfully, Miranda sent the photos to me quickly, and all my fears evaporated as soon as I saw them. They were wonderful – professional, beautiful and creative. And there were so many! Miranda definitely offers incredible value for money!

Thank you so much Miranda – I’m thrilled with my photos, and I will happily travel another 5.5 hours to work with you again!”

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“Are you ready to go deep?” It’s the question posed by Transformation Coach Meghann Birks. She helps individuals and organisations achieve their goals by creating a road map that identifies where they are, where they want to be and how they’re going to get there. She needed some updated images moving from a brand name to coaching under her own name and I very much enjoyed working with her down to earth attitude – there was no sugar coating any of the directions!!  She picked some super fun locations that suit her style and personality and tested my action shot abilities with cartwheels and jumping.  Her first response to the images? “Omg omg omg omg! I love these sooooooo much!”

I’m looking forward to reading her blog post on facing her dislike of getting in front of the camera.

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Being flown up to Cairns for the launch of the newest Babes Project centre…? Don’t mind if I do! I enjoy all the time I spend at the Babes – so many opportunities for cute photos of divine babies and adorable kids!  I honestly look forward to every shoot with them.  And to top it all off I get to hear the emotional stories of women finding their power and owning motherhood with the help and support of the The Babes Project.  Listening to how thankful mothers who undertake the program are, makes me so thankful that I get to contribute to such an amazing organisation.  My biggest reward is capturing the emotion, power or connection in a photograph and allowing the Babes story to be shared.  And from a technical perspective I love the diversity of the photographic opportunities I get working with the Babes – including headshots, product flatlays, lifestyle images of mothers and children, capturing the mood at events, encountering not so perfect lighting or spaces – all makes for a very enjoyable challenge.

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I spent an hour with the gorgeous, funny, smart and generous Sage King – a degree qualified Naturopath & Nutritionist at the Terra Madre Wellness Clinic. She is passionate about providing evidence-based holistic health care, particularly to the LGBTIQA+ and Sex Worker communities. I am very happy with the number and variety of images we created within a single hour, at a single location (which admittedly did have a number of places we could shoot), with three outfits and a camera shy subject. There are head shots, action shots, details shots – plenty to fill a social feed, update the website and online profile pics.

If you’d like to see the full gallery to better understand what we can create in an hour personal branding shoot – contact me for the link and password.

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In all seriousness though – it was amazing to see how committed she was to her personal goals and how the end result empowered her.

And she set me a challenge: an unedited image to send off for the Oxygen Magazine Covergirl contest. Nothing strikes more fear into a photographer in this digital age than not being able to edit a shot. Don’t get me wrong – I’ll always aim for perfect straight from camera to minimise editing time – and I’m not into changing a person’s shape or features but I do like knowing I can tweak an image if it’s not technically perfect. ⠀

We also needed a light background and was so glad we found a plain grey concrete wall outside the gym. The gent moving fruit in the forklift behind us asked when I’d photograph him. I said when he had a pink bikini to pose in 😛

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A personal branding package is more than just traditional headshots.  We can include your work area, how you work, lifestyle shots, detailed shots of your tools of the trade and pictures of your product(s).  We can also plan for style elements like different shapes (ie. insta versus banners), leave space for text overlays and edit the portraits with a particular style or color palette in mind.

Here are some of my fav’s from the day:

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Here are some headshots taken at a very picturesque property on the peninsula with Amanda from The Real You.  I love her smile, the eye contact, the makeup and I think she is terribly photogenic!

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