performance photography

Performance photography

Photographing live performance art is fascinating. It’s spontaneous, and unscripted. You create artworks or document the movement created by the artist or other participants, with a great freedom of interpretation. Photography transforms the immaterial nature of art performance into something tangible. Picture Her theatre show In late 2019 I documented the first Picture Her theatre…

Leadership Team headshots photography Damascus College Ballarat

Leadership Team headshots for Damascus College

Photography for Damascus College I was recently commissioned to provide a full set of Leadership Team headshots for Ballarat’s catholic school Damascus College. Photos were used for both online and printed publications and used throughout the website. Please view a few examples below and for more, visit their website at https://www.damascus.vic.edu.au   Professional headshots and lifestyle…

Startup Brand Photography

Brand Photography for Startup Program

Startup Brand Photography I’ve recently worked on brand photography and production of all creative digital content for Startup Gippsland program. My tasks included producing all marketing collateral, main website and dedicated landing pages, as well as the 6-weeks social media video and ad campaign launched on a Christmas Day 2018. Professional photography was used for:…

Photography Styling Tips for Business Headshots Melbourne

Business Headshots Melbourne

Business Headshot Photography Photographing people for business portraits can sometimes seem like an intimidating prospect. To have one or more person in front of the camera, looking to you for direction, can be an intense experience. Most of the time, people are quite critical of themselves in photographs and most of the time, they feel…

Gippsland brand photography

Branding Photography for WMOW Program

Branding Photography Brand photography is a suite of professional quality images that represent your business and brand visually, and fit with your visual identity through their use of colours, tone, photography style and more. These can include photos of you, your team, your products, your space and other things that make your business unique. Here…

Sydney wedding photography Polish style

Sydney wedding

Sydney wedding photography I met Arek & Marta at Mt Kosciuszko trip few years back. We had tons of laughter together. I was stoked when they asked me to be their wedding photographer five years later! Friday afternoon wedding in Sydney isn’t the easiest to photograph a wedding! 🙂 Heavy afternoon traffic and the heat…

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Women Business Portraits

  Portrait Preparation: Clothing Clothing for corporate headshot photography should be professional and suit your company or your business look. High contrast combinations, such as a dark jacket, white shirt and bold tie, scarf or accessories work well. Pastels and busy patterns are best avoided. Solid colours, freshly ironed, long sleeved shirts are flattering, be aware of clothing that…

Women Corporate headshots Ballarat Melbourne Photography

Women Corporate Headshots

Corporate Headshots tips | Melbourne and Ballarat  As a business owner myself, I understand the importance of setting yourself apart with unique and stylish imagery and be true to your own style. It’s one of the best branding investments you can make for your business. Below I’ve compiled a short list of professional headshot tips.…

Family Portrait Photography Sweet Creative and Lots of Fun!

Family Portrait Photography

Family Portrait Photography that is fun, candid and natural Many people feel really self-conscious in front of the camera and often remark “I hate having my picture taken.” It’s completely normal so my job is to make your photoshoot remarkable, help you focus on what you’re good at and not how bad you feel about…

Ballarat musician portrait Aldona Kmiec Heather Marsh Breckin musician portrait artist Ballarat

Ballarat musician portrait

Musician portrait photography Breckin, which means freckled, is the moniker of Melbourne-based visual artist, poet and singer-songwriter, Heather Marsh. Her debut album, Shiner, is both bruised and brilliant. “It illuminates and holds an oblique mirror to the perennial subject of love and loss in a series of songs that are equal parts elegy, sympathy card…

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Extraordinary Routines: Lily Mae Martin

Creative Artist Portrait I was engaged by Madeleine Dore, editor of the Extraordinary Routines of Creatives blog to provide documentary style portrait images for an interview with a fellow Ballarat artist, Lily Mae Martin. Read the full interview on: http://www.extraordinaryroutines.com/portraits/#/lily-mae-martin/ If you’re interested in headshots or a creative portrait photography, please get in touch or Portrait…

Ballarat Fitness Coach photography

  Ballarat Fitness Coach photography Ballarat fitness coach Naomi Goode has recently opened a new venue in Ballarat called Dream + Nourish. Naomi is a registered dietitian and joint owner/operator of St Arnaud Fitness.  She enjoys bringing the latest in nutritional science and training to country Victoria. With eight years working in the community health…

Ballarat Murals Aldona Kmiec Street art photography

Ballarat Murals

Back in 2013, I facilitated a series of installations of large format paste ups, designed to combat tagging in known graffiti hotspots. Black and white posters were displayed in more than 9 locations and featured portraits of hundreds of Ballarat residents. Working with various community groups was very rewarding. During the five months long project,…

Love is the greatest adventure Wedding Layflat album book

Wedding Album Photography ideas

Wedding Albums If you’re looking into turning  your wedding images into a book, here’s a great product worth recommendation. My Deluxe Wedding Photography Albums are ideal to showcase your professional wedding day photographs in a lasting beautiful product. This album is not limited just to wedding photographs, but your family portraits and so on.. Below are…