Bangalow headshots

Owner Portraits and Headshots in Bangalow

Walk down Byron Street and many shops are curated by the person behind the counter. Bangalow shoppers like that connection, and online it comes through best with a styled portrait of the owner in their own store, surrounded by the things they’ve chosen to sell.

We’re about half an hour away in Ballina. We designed the brand for Bangalow garden designer Green Room, and we’ve photographed designers, business owners and their spaces across the Byron Shire.

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Owners With Their Spaces

For interior design and build team Penrose Design we photographed a finished Lennox Head project along with informal portraits and headshots. It’s the approach we’d take in a Bangalow boutique: the person and the place together.

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A Bangalow Brand

We designed the logo, business card and an advertisement for Bangalow garden designer Green Room. A considered owner portrait belongs on the same level of polish as a brand like that.

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Shops With a Story

The Byron Bay Hat Company website we built has a clean, considered look. Retailers who sell on taste do well when customers can also see the face behind the curation.

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Small Business Owners

Small brands often sell on who is behind them. We photographed every participant at the Heart Sparks retreat for female business owners in Byron Bay, giving each of them images for their marketing.

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Styled, Not Stiff

We plan the setting, style and framing with you, so the portrait feels like it belongs in your shop and on your Instagram feed. Because we design brands and websites too, the photos fit the rest of your look.

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Boutique Pricing

Bangalow portrait sessions start from $495 for a 2-hour shoot + GST. If you’d also like product or shopfront shots in the same visit, tell us and we’ll price the whole list.

Portraits, makers and spaces

2020

Penrose Design

Lennox Head Photography

2019

Green Room

Branding / Logo Design

2020

Heart Sparks

Byron Bay Photography

2020

Byron Bay Hat Company

Byron Bay Web Design

2019

Skin & Clay

Lennox Head Photography

Bangalow portrait and headshot questions

Yes, and early is usually best. An empty shop lets us shift a rack or display without bumping customers, and morning light through the front windows can be lovely. On market Sundays and busy weekends a weekday booking is far easier for everyone.

For a Bangalow boutique, in the shop nearly every time. Customers are buying your taste, so seeing you among the pieces you have chosen tells that story instantly. A second setup on the verandah or a quiet laneway gives you variety for Instagram.

Yes. A session is $495 for a 2-hour shoot + GST, and owners often split it between portraits, a few hero products and the shopfront. If the product list is long we will say up front that it needs more time, rather than rushing it.

Bangalow draws locals and day-trippers from Byron, and many check a shop online before they visit. An owner portrait on your About page, Google Business Profile and Instagram makes a small boutique feel personal next to a chain store’s polished but faceless feed.

Yes. For Penrose Design in Lennox Head we photographed a newly completed interior and took informal portraits of the team on the same job. Designers, makers and stylists around Bangalow can be shown with a finished project or in the studio where the work happens.

They should. We design logos and identities, including the logo, business card and advertisement for Bangalow garden designer Green Room, so we think about colour, mood and setting in brand terms. We retouch your selected images to keep them in line with your look.

Yes. We build websites and online shops on WordPress, WooCommerce and Shopify, including the Byron Bay Hat Company site, and new portraits are often the trigger for a refresh. Doing both together means the photos are shot for the exact spaces they will fill.

Get in touch

Put a face to your Bangalow shop

Tell us about your shop or studio and what the photos will be used for. We’ll suggest a time that avoids the busy hours and send a price.