Posts by AuthorBrett

One of the most amazing wedding locations I have had the pleasure to shoot was coupled with two of the loveliest people to make an awesome wedding in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. Nicole and Radford held their wedding at the Furnaux Lodge, which forms part of the Queen Charlotte Track; a 5 day walking...
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I got an out-of-the-blue call from Mr Roc Travers one day to ask if i might be interested to help out on a project he was working on with a theatre troupe from Masterton. Once I heard the brief I was in! Roc had a bunch of actors and access to some cool vintage dresses...
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Music has been a huge part of my life for years, I played in bands and even started my own record label. One of the main things that drew me to the scene wasn’t so much getting up on stage myself (even though I do love that) but being able to take photos of these...
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Well it’s a new year so I thought I should treat myself to a new blog design to get ready for the big things to come. I hope you like it, there’s more on the page than the last one so I hope it’s not too cluttered. I’d love to get your feedback, so let...
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Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve posted on here and I’ve got lots of things to share but just like the Mechanic’s car, a photographer’s blog is always the last thing to be updated in a busy time. I’ll be posting a lot more over the next few weeks as things slow down for...
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Close Up The second brief Jaime Leigh and I tackled was to use 100’s & 1000’s close up. This is from the Canon site: “This small candy brief is all about getting your lens close to the object. You must feature these tiny hundreds & thousands but you don’t need to use them all, and...
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One of the best ways I find to challenge myself is to set personal projects, where I am the client and I try to create my vision as well as I can to the brief I have set. Usually it’s just an image I have in my head that needs to come out, but sometimes...
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I met Martyn earlier this year in Sydney and instantly recognised him from somewhere, it wasn’t until a few weeks later that I worked out he had modelled for Sceats Eyewear, a glasses company, when I saw him with glasses on one day and it all fell in to place! We did a quick shoot...
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Before we left on our road trip across Australia, from Perth to Sydney, Jaime Leigh and I did a photo shoot for West Australian clothing label Gospel Fashion with Carla as our model. My original plan was to get out in to the dunes at Lancelin but the weather was so bad we ended up...
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I got into boxing mid last year and had always admired the gritty black & white shots of the sport that really bring out it’s intimate nature; it really can be a beautiful sport in a most unconventional way. Marc Siou at Maximum Fitness on Tory St needed some new promo shots of the gym...
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