Meet the person behind the headshot

I have had so many wonderful people in my studio  for a headshot, or what I call a corporate branded shoot.  I though it would be nice to show them off here. Also because many of these people are the heads behind some amazing businesses. Some of them may actually be a business that you could benefit from. Read their books, do their training, join their leaning platforms or simply just be inspired by them.

If you sit there thinking you are in need of a headshot yourself, please do check out this page for all the info your need or simply call me now 9754 1759

Ellie Sakrezewski

Many of you will recognise Ellie as she is the makeup artist working with me on most of my sessions. Ellie has worked in the fashion and beauty industry for over 25 years. She travelled all over the world doing working with beauty, but finally fell in love with Singapore and decided to stay and set up her salon The Big Blow in Cluny Court.

Before becoming a mother to her son Otto, Ellie had a successful career as a makeup artist and hairstylist from London and Paris to Sydney and Tokyo. She has worked with some of the biggest names in the fashion and music world such as Alexander McQueen, Issey Miyake and David Bowie. Her works have appeared in Vogue, Marie Claire, ELLE, Harpers Bazaar and Cosmopolitan and she worked closely with Mr. Shu Uemura while living in Tokyo before coming to Singapore in 2001.

Dr. Sairupa Krishnamurti

Dr. Sairupa is a Canadian Licensed Naturopathic Doctor working at City Osteopathy and Physiotherapy in Singapore. She is also an Ayurveda Practitioner and loves developing personalized & nurturing treatment plans with patients that emphasize self-care. She believes holistic medicine supports an individual and their families to live in their highest vitality. Sairupa is passionate about fertility, pregnancy and paediatric care and has been so inspired by her own beautiful (and hilarious) 4- year old girl.

Elaine Friedlander

Elaine Friedlander is the founder and CEO of Nüwa. This is is a professional membership organisation for artists and professionals working within the arts and culture sector. Nüwa aims to inspire and connect their members to each other, and to opportunities within the arts sector and beyond. It is also an organisation that also strives to affirm the role of artists in society by sharing best practice, guidance and insights amongst our members, and advocating on their behalf.

Nüwa holds regular networking events for people in the art and cultural sector. They also host a series of talks and other projects. As a member myself, I highly recommend going to one of Nüwa’s events, I have made an amazing group of artists though these group

Francis Grobler

Franziska  is the founder & CEO of Jadeways Solutions. She works as a Business Consultant & Trainer for a variety of brands.

Jadeway Solutions help business to streamline their marketing, sales and customer service approach in order to improve return on marketing investment.

Franzeska offers a range of of services such as marketing strategies, webdesign, branding and training. So if you need to know more about social media strategies, Google Analytics training and Google Add training, Franzeska is your lady. You can find out more about her services here.

Mary

Mary Barrett and I am the founder of Butterflymango. She provides coaching for Senior Executives, team leaders and entrepreneurs. Her training consists of, amongst other things, leadership, mindset, coaching and team communication.

Toni Estrella

Toni is the author behind the book ‘Comatose”, which is a book that follows the lives of four strangers who are trying to cheat death. A link between lucid dreaming and comas leads to unexpected alliances in a life-threatening race for survival. An interesting book that is written based on dreams that Toni had over a period of eight years!

Why only 20 images?

I get the question over and over again. Why do we only get 20 images to select from? This comes with other questions such as; how about the unedited images…?

Can we select some from the unedited files? Where is the rest of them? We are fine with unedited images,  just send them over!

It often leads to question about pricing. “why would we pay you $1299 for 20 images when we can get 200 images from someone else at $199”?

If you continue reading, you will get a better understanding of the value of 20 images. And if you don’t see the value of them, then there is absolutely no obligation to use me as your photographer. The market is saturated with photographers, all at different prices and different quality. 

Generally you get what you pay for.

Back got the 20 image question!

The short answer to the question is: Because every single one of those 20 image are perfect.  I am a fine art portrait photographer. I shoot for your walls. I do not shoot for your hard drive. What I create is to be enjoyed every day for decades. Not to be lost on a hard drive in a couple of years. 

The longer answer to the question is here:

PLANNING

All my portraits are planned beforehand (style and colours). You let me know what style you like, what colours you like and who you want to bring for your session. A lot of time goes into planning a portrait even before it is taken. An in person pre session consultation is included for all my sessions. This means 1-2 hours planning your session together at my studio. Time that I do not charge for, it is included in the final image price. 

POSING

I am highly trained in posing people. Whether it is family portraits, men, women, children or babies, I will guide my model through every single aspect of posing. It takes a lot of skill to pose people so they look their best and at the same time look natural. This skill is something I have learnt through years of practice and through numerous courses and expensive 1-2-1 mentoring sessions.  Yes there is such thing as posing mentoring:)

LIGHTING

Light is everything. It literally is such a bit part of an image. If not done correctly, the image simply won’t work. Every single one of my images have impeccable light setups. These individual setups are thought through lighting setups that suit the person I am photographing. I do not use a ‘one light fit all’. Often during a session you will see me change light setups, test lights, do modifications etc to get that perfect light that suit my model. Again I have spent years perfecting my lighting knowledge so I know which light to use for all types of portraits. And yes you guessed right, more 1-2-1 mentoring on lighting with some of the best portrait photographers in the UK.

 

SELECTING

Of course I take more than 20 images. After the session, during my selection process, I pick the best images for editing. I look at composition, lighting, posing, expression etc etc. It can take more than an hour to select 20 images from 200 images. And trust me, I do select the best ones! Firstly, because I don’t want anything less than perfect to my name. Secondly, I want you to like it, so why would I not show you the best?

EDITING

Don’t even get me started on the topic of editing. Your shoot may take 2-3 hours, but it takes so much longer to edit those images. This is because I edit to perfection. I can spend 20 minutes  alone on the background of an image, as I am extremely fuzzy about how I want it to look. Then comes all the retouching of the model. And no, I do not change the way people look what so ever. But it does take a long time to remove stray-hair, retouch skin, enhance colours etc. Then comes the tricky family and group images. There is always someone who closes their eye or look the other way. In this case I swap that persons’ head from another image, in order to get the perfect family portrait with everyone looking their best.

If I gave you more than 20 images to chose from, you would get a bunch of unedited images. Images where you can see the light stand to the left. Images where you are blinking. Images where your toddler is screaming his head off. You would have the choice of image A: mum and dad looks amazing, but toddler is screaming. OR image B: Dad and toddler look amazing, mum is closing her eyes and her foot is out of the frame…. By selecting 20 images I make the job easy for you. I only show you perfect images. In this case I would have merged the two images so all three of you look perfect.

How much wall space do you have?

Lastly, there is the space issue! I shoot for your walls. I only sell prints and wall art (I gift you the corresponding digital high resolution copy when you buy a print). Why do I do this? Because I want you to display your portraits! You have paid $1299 for 20 portraits. I have spent 25-30 hours creating them. Therefore, I want them on your wall! And do you have wall space for more than 20 images? Unless you live in a large house and decide to dedicate all your walls to these portraits, then chances are, you even have to select a few from the 20 you want to display. You simply don’t have space to display all of them. 

A photographer for every budget

As I mentioned above, there is a photographer for every budget. There is a photographer for every taste. I may not be the photographer for you. If you want 300 unedited images for $199, then I am not for you. In fact if you want unedited images, I am not for you.

If you want to chose between 20 perfect portraits, then I am for you. You don’t need to pick all 20. I will show you 20 portraits, beautifully printed and displayed at my studio for when you come for yout your viewing and buying session. It is totally up to you which ones you want to purchase. There is no hard sell, I only want you to get the ones you are in love with. However, most people fall in love with them all, so there is a good chance you will too.

If you want to read more about how my sessions work and everything I can do for you please read here

And my full pricing can be found here