Category Archives: Portrait

Catherine and Dale – engagement photography

Brisbane engagement photography offers so many chooses to give the feel you are after. When considering the location of your engagement portraits it’s best to keep in mind where you will be getting married and what you have planed for your wedding photography. Wedding photography locations are usually chosen on the bases of what you would like with the constraints of been conviently local to your wedding ceremony or reception location. With your engagement photography we have a chance to be a little bit different and choose from your very favorite locations and time of day or evening. The creativity of a professional photographer can use photography locations to add a feeling to your photos. Strong archtical backdrops, soft greens of gardens, the texture of the old buildings and lane ways can all add to creating more than a photograph but a portrait that says who you are and what you feel.

Catherine and Dale’s wedding is to be set in a beautiful garden so they chose to be a little bit different with their engagement portraits and went with meeting at GOMA at South Bank in the early evening. This is a great area with a mix of great buildings, gardens and water features. We really enjoy this time with our couples. It’s a time to chat as much as it’s about the photography. In fact I firmly believe our photography is much better for taking the time to care about you and hear your stories. Thank you Catherine and Dale for a great time and please enjoy some of the images we created and have posted below. We’re really looking forward to your wedding day.

Rediscovering Brisbane photography – locations for your portrait

We want your suggestions for Brisbane portrait locations. Listening to you and challenging ourselves is how we keep our wedding photography in Brisbane fresh, natural, exciting and keep you in the picture for your portraits. All styles of scenes from the beautiful to run down. Parks to streets and alley ways of Brisbane. Specializing in Brisbane wedding photography and portraits we’ve discovered many locations to get the best for your photography and we want to discover more.

Now it’s time to put you in the picture and get your suggestions for Brisbane portrait photography. This will be a series that will include your suggestions and some of ours to rediscover with a fresh eye to get new angles and different feelings from locations. We’ll collect all the ideas and start going to these locations. A little time away from our clients and editing images to capture Brisbane scenery with creative ideas to place you in the picture. Looking forward to posting images here and discussing some of our ideas and hearing your comments.

So LIKE us on Facebook and you’ll be kept up to date with new locations and very special deals to put you in the that picture.  When your organising your portrait photography in Brisbane to place yourself in the picture remember to mention the “Rediscovering Brisbane” series and your favorite location.

Dance Direction 2011 Concert – Studio Photography

I’ve been photographing Dance Direction concerts since 2006 and have thoroughly enjoyed both the studio photography and the dress rehearsal photography. While over that time our weddings and portraits have grown to a point where we thought of a new name for the studio a few years ago and have this year finally renamed the studio from Dragonfly Imagery to Cordare Studio. The name Cordare means to “give of one’s heart”. I have such a passion for what I do and now that I have other photographers that work for the studio it was important for all to know what I expect to give to my clients who hopefully become my friends.

Last weekend was that time of year again to set up the studio equipment and photograph some very talented dance students. Jillian, Diana, and Carlene are committed to teaching and sharing their love for the art of dance. Later this month will be their dress rehearsal under stage lighting and I’m looking forward to photographing the dancers in action.

We have so many great family portrait options so that we can get the whole family in the picture. Talk to us soon and will make a time to discuss your options.

Tiffany and Jordan engagement portrait

Tiffany and Jordan jumped at the chance to meet in the evening to capture their portraits by the Brisbane River with the city lights a glow. We started our engagement photography up at Kangaroo Point Cliffs and then headed over the Story Bridge to walk along the north bank of the Brisbane River. We always look for the best in planning your portraits. This involves getting a feel for who you are, what you like to do and the best time that suits you.

There was some light rain which added a huge amount of mood and atmosphere to the backdrop of their portraits. I had brought an umbrella for Tiffany and Jordan to share if they needed during their engagement photography session. The umbrella I use has a wooden shaft so that we don’t get bright reflections that you can with the chrome type. It’s focusing on little details like this that can make all the difference. You’ll see some of these portraits below. The wet ground gave us some great reflections to be also creative with.

As we walked down to Custom House which is one of Brisbane’s heritage icons we looked for the best light and backdrops to their portraits.

Within a few days we had enhanced their images for viewing. Tiffany and Jordan choose their favorite images for us to produce a portrait album for them.

Here are just a few of their images.

 

Clare Finlayson – Portrait

Clare is a fantastic theatre performer here in Brisbane. She brought a great energy to her portfolio shoot. We had so much fun getting so many characters to come to life in the images. We finished some of her images in black and white with a film grain feel while other images needed lots of colour. Creating shadows also made for some interesting images.

Sandra and Phil’s Portraits

The plan was to photograph Sandra and Phil at  Mt Cootha Botanical Gardens in the Japanese gardens but the day we were there all of the water had been drained from the pond. So we went off to find other beautiful spots and we did. We got so many great shots that day, Sandra and Phil got us to put a collection of their print together in one of our new album boxes.