Case Studies & Guides
Commercial Brand Photography
Brand, product, campaign and team photography for New Zealand businesses. These case studies show how I plan shoots around real people and real workplaces, so your images feel candid and relatable.
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- All Posts, Commercial Brand Photography, Videography & Film
AgCon Stump Grinding Photo and Video
I spent a half day filming and photographing AgCon, an owner-operated stump grinding and mulching business working across Southland and Otago. Owner Brent Burgess wanted his marketing to sell the service he provides and the what the finished job can look like. We delivered a 45-second service overview promo, 2 social media cutdowns (15 and 30 seconds), as well as 50 edited images.
- Commercial Brand Photography, Events Photography
Showbiz Queenstown 9 to 5 Performance Marketing Material
One four-hour dress rehearsal and one chance to get it right: the full promotional and performance image suite for Showbiz Queenstown's production of 9 to 5. Delivered overnight for printing the following morning, then used across posters, social media and marketing around Queenstown.
- Commercial Brand Photography
DuraPlan Skyline Queenstown Bathrooms Installation, 2026
DuraPlan's bathroom fit-out in the new Skyline building in Queenstown, photographed in about two hours. Composite images built by exposure stacking to hold both the fittings and the light in the room, delivered for the company's project portfolio.
- Commercial Brand Photography, Events Photography
2026 New Zealand Open, Millbrook
Event photography from the 2026 New Zealand Open at Millbrook Resort, Queenstown: players, crowds and candid moments captured as part of the NZ Open media team.
- Adventure Sports And Tourism, Commercial Brand Photography, Videography & Film
Highlands Motorsport Media Maverick Competition Winner, 2025
I won Highlands Motorsport Park's nationwide search for its next Motorsports Media Maverick, sponsored by Trade Me and run by SpecialPR. The prize was a two-day shoot at the park, photographing and filming models and families on the go-kart tracks for the venue's own marketing.
- Commercial Brand Photography, Videography & Film
The Gut Clinic Queenstown Brand Refresh Photo and Video
I filmed and photographed The Gut Clinic Queenstown for a brand refresh. The short welcome video became the clinic's main paid social ad and ran for months. It drove new bookings for the next six months. Here's how we made a private, personal treatment feel calm and approachable on camera.
- Commercial Brand Photography, Videography & Film
Global Games HERO Video, Queenstown Football Tournament
Three days covering the inaugural Queenstown International Football Cup for Global Games — 70+ teams, with matches running simultaneously across the fields. Delivered a five-to-seven minute hero film plus daily social recaps, shot and cut solo around changeable Queenstown weather.
- Adventure Sports And Tourism, Commercial Brand Photography
Refreshing Pinewood Lodge’s Visual Story
Pinewood Lodge needed its visual library to catch up with the property as it is now. A refresh covering rooms, communal spaces and the Queenstown setting, built as a versatile set for the website, booking platforms and social channels, shot alongside video by Storyworks.
- Commercial Brand Photography
Photographing Bathe by Aluume: Six Weeks From Building Site to Opening Day, Queenstown
Documenting the build and opening of Bathe by Aluume's first Queenstown location: six weekly construction videos tracking site progress, weekly photography sets covering textures and atmosphere, and hero images of the pools for the website and paid ads. The work ran in QT magazine and on travel partner sites.
- Commercial Brand Photography
Headshots for Publicis Media NYC
Two hundred corporate headshots in five hours at a Publicis Media staff conference in New York. Two photographers running two stations at three to four minutes a person, matched to names by timecode and delivered through an online gallery — two to three finished frames each.
Work With Me
Whether you have an idea for a commercial brand photo or video shoot, an action or adventure sports event that needs coverage, a branded documentary film or corporate event, I offer a variety of services to suit your needs.
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Interested in attending a workshop or training session with me? I offer many different workshop and teaching solutions, whether you are a solo operator or corporate team looking to develop your smartphone and content skills, or if you are a keen photographer looking to up-skill in adventure photography.
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Photographer, filmmaker and educator. Capturing the human connection through relatable, impactful and candid imagery.
Queenstown Based, available across New Zealand and the US.
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