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Freelance Photographer | Food, Events & Brand Storytelling | 5+ Years Experience Hi, I’m Justin, a freelance photographer based in Auckland, New Zealand, with over 5 years of professional experience creating clean, emotional visuals for brands, events, and businesses. My work focuses on visual storytelling. Whether it's capturing the atmosphere of a live event, highlighting the craftsmanship of food and beverages, or creating lifestyle imagery for brands, I aim to deliver photographs that feel authentic, engaging, and professionally crafted. I have worked with clients through Upwork and direct collaborations, consistently delivering high quality results with clear communication and reliability. In 2024, I received an Honourable Mention at the Sony World Photography Awards (City/Street category). My work was also showcased at the Sony Scene Tradeshow and Sony Trade Event in Sydney, recognizing my dedication to strong visual storytelling. I also have experience photographing coffee competitions and industry events for the New Zealand Specialty Coffee Association, capturing barista performances, latte art, and key moments from national competitions. Services, Tools & Work Approach I provide professional photography and visual content for brands, events, and businesses. My services include food and beverage photography, event and competition coverage, lifestyle and brand shoots, product imagery, professional photo editing and retouching, and short form video clips such as Reels or behind the scenes content. I work with a Sony Alpha camera system and Godox professional lighting, and edit using Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, DaVinci Resolve, and Premiere Pro to ensure polished, high quality results. Clients value my reliability, strong attention to detail, and clean visual style. I focus on creating natural and professional imagery while maintaining clear communication throughout the project. If you are looking for high quality visuals that elevate your brand, product, or event, I would be happy to collaborate and bring your vision to life.

With almost a decade of professional experience behind the lens, I bring both technical expertise and creative intuition to every project. Over the past 10 years, I’ve completed 18 photography courses covering shooting techniques, composition, lighting, and advanced editing — with hands-on experience across portrait, landscape, product, and food photography and food styling. My approach combines strong visual storytelling with a deep understanding of light, detail, and mood. Whether capturing people, places, or products, I focus on creating images that feel intentional, polished, and authentic — not just visually appealing, but purposeful. I also have a passion for cooking and can offer this to go with lifestyle product photography if your product is food related or if recipe photography is required remotely. All the food photos I have displayed, I have made myself. Through all the many photo sessions I have done from Family photos, food and products, landscapes and studio one common factor is editing. Everything I do I edit, and I have developed my very own style that I like to call ' Bold Natural' using Adobe lightroom and Photoshop. Editing is my most enjoyed part, bringing the whole vision to life and giving it the finishing touch and making magic from not much. So, it is also my greatest joy to offer edit only jobs as well as shooting and editing. My rate reflects over 10 years of experience and a fully custom editing workflow, where every image is individually hand-edited for color, light, and consistency — never batch presets.

Jarred is a designer with extensive experience working at leading design studios including Sordo Madaleno London, Heatherwick, RTA Studio, and Architectus New Zealand. He holds a Master of Architecture Degree with Honors from The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Beyond his architectural expertise, he is an avid photographer and digital artist. His practice has taken him across New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom, enriching his understanding of diverse architectural styles and cultural influences that inform every project he undertakes. Jarred's design approach is driven by the desire to weave compelling narratives about people, places, and cultures into the built environment. He views architecture as a powerful form of expression, with the ability to shape spaces that encourage human interaction, movement, and emotional connection

I wanted to be a musician, a cartoonist or a sensational celebrity. I just happened to be none of them, but I have something to do with all of them. I produce the thing that inspires us to become "someone". Nowadays, it is hard to correctly appreciate who you are and who you want to be. My visuals bridge the reality and the ideality. We exist through the moments we capture with a camera, which perhaps will never appear the same again, so I draw and paint. All of our creations are what we record; we record ourselves. I love music, drawing, films and writing, which can convey the sense of existence not limited to what you are here and now. I provide videography, photography and stories behind.

Hi, I am Maria and I present myself as a skilled Photo Editor and retoucher (with Experience in Virtual Admin Assistant) with a keen eye for beauty and images that resonate. With a strong work ethic, a high level of organization, and an exceptionally calm manner, I juggle multiple jobs and meet deadlines with ease. - Wedding photography editing - Headshot - Professional portrait retouching - Newborn & Family session retouching - Maternity - Lightroom post-processing - Color correction - Fashion Photo retouching - Frequency separation - Sharpen - Photo Color Correction and Toning - Color & Lighting Enhancement Not only have I edited for print and web over the last five years, but I have also assisted and run photoshoots and has often worked directly with clients to great success. Here are some of the skills and achievements I will bring: Seamless workflow management Excellent photo retouching Proficiency with Adobe image software Image editing Color correcting Image archiving I’d be happy to provide greater detail about my skills and experience during an interview. Please call me at your earliest convenience. I have also worked as a Freelance Photographer for Magazine and Content Creator for some travel and mobile companies; this gave me the experience and ability to realize and capture compositions, showing the world what the human eye can sometimes not see. I took fancy to a camera when I first traveled to Europe. From just capturing the beautiful architecture of Rome and the vast landscape of Italy, I became fascinated with how powerful images can do to my mental well-being. I became passionate not only about taking pictures of my experiences but also falling in love with the whole process of learning composition and telling stories through photographs. As my passion for photography grows, I enrolled in a photography course at International Career Institute, a distance learning. The training further helped in getting acquainted with the sense of composition, playing with colors, understanding the difference between black and white and colored images, familiarizing myself with photo-editing tools and software, using light to the best of my advantage, experimenting with different angles while shooting landscape photographs, and much more. Understanding that a photographer nowadays needs to have a technical hold on things, I am comfortable operating photography equipment and related software that is used to process quality photographs i.e. Photoshop, Lightroom, and InDesign. Owing to my passion, I work continuously to learn new things to make my work professional.

I’m a video editor who helps creators and businesses turn raw footage into clear, engaging stories. Whether you’re building a channel, producing an online course, or creating branded explainers, I can help. - Skilled in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and the Adobe Suite - Strong focus on story flow, pacing, and motion graphics for clarity - Experienced communicator with in depth understanding of production pipelines