More photos from the article to follow next week…

Promo photo featuring the very lovely Jodi and Matt from their gorgeous Cable Bay wedding in 2009.

We are looking for someone to join our small team in a post-production and editing role.  EXCITING!!

The position is for a minimum of 30 hours/week for a period of 6 months beginning in October, although there is the potential for further employment beyond this fixed term for the right person.

We are advertising both nationally and locally, and so far the response has been great.  We are asking those interested in the job to fill out our application form and return a hard copy to us so that we can assess all the applications together.  We will then conduct some face to face interviews mid September, with the successful applicant beginning work on the 3rd October this year.

If you are the right person for this exciting opportunity working within a small and highly successful wedding and portrait studio on Waiheke Island, one of the most beautiful places in New Zealand, please email Emma for a job application form.  Applications close on the 9th September.

The new site has loads of lovely wedding photos, as well as heaps of cute children’s photos, baby photography, pregnancy shoots, family portraits, couples photos, boudoir and body shots and of course a whole lot of individual portraits (never really know what to call these – ‘adult portraits’ just sounds kinda wrong!).

A new portfolio section we added this time around is a called ‘generations’ – these are a selection of the multi family portraits of extended family that we often do at Christmas and other holidays when everyone is all gathered together.  Waiheke is the perfect location for these extended family portraits and they are always really special, involving everyone from the smallest babies through to the great grandmothers.

Check out the new site HERE

We did a few different looks in the studio including some shots with our new … ahem… ‘wind machine’. 

[photo showing Denise's partner Jon doing an excellent job of operating said wind machine... very technical!]

And the end result…

Thanks to Denise’s friend Michelle Benson for sending through the pic.

All the winning photos can be viewed HERE

In the second half of the day we did a model shoot which included projecting images onto the subject – very ‘art-school’ as Heather put out, but a bit of fun.  We also did some shooting around the Ellerslie Events Centre although rain prevented any real exploration of the grounds so we stuck to the stairwells and undercover stands. All poses/model direction by Heather…

I always enjoy partaking in workshops and seminars like these; it’s a great chance to hang out with other members of New Zealand’s professional wedding photography community and especially great to put some faces to the names of photographers I haven’t met yet.  Will be squeezing a couple more of these seminars into my ‘down time’ this winter I hope!