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We reckon the old adage remains true: a picture is worth a thousand words. Find out more
Family photography on the Mornington Peninsula is about creating memories: capturing images that tell the stories of your family, the relationships, the interactions, and the love.
You know yourself how certain music, scents, and photos bring milestone events rushing back. Events like marriage, births, celebrations and holidays.
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I love helping to create memories by capturing natural photographs of family life that are beautiful, spontaneous and emotive. This is why I am so passionate about photographing individuals and families. Over the years I’ve photographed people in parks, at the beach, in studios, in backyards, in churches, in cars and family homes.
The Mornington Peninsula has a wonderful range of parks and beaches providing a wide range of backdrops for your photographs.
As professional photographers living and working on the peninsula, we can advise and organise the right time and place to professionally photograph your family – whether you prefer beaches, parks, or bushland. Over the past 19 years we have organised and photographed hundreds of family at the peninsula’s most beautiful locations.
To complete the location options, we have a modern, professional photography studio in Balnarring on the Mornington Peninsula. Our newly renovated studio is a fun and relaxed space where we can create wonderful portraits of you and your children.
Let me start by saying that whether you choose a favourite place or just want the convenience of a studio, you are going to have fun and walk away with beautiful images.
On location provides many opportunities for images of yourselves and your children photographed in a natural way, with a wide range of backgrounds. Initially, this approach can be easier for kids and adults because I can shoot in a more candid style, allowing everyone to relax and become accustomed to having a camera pointing at them. Having said that, I’ve been a professional photographer on the Mornington Peninsula for 19 years so I know how to interact with clients to create a relaxed atmosphere and then create wonderful natural, compelling portraits.
Typically on-location shoots are timed for early mornings or late afternoons because these are times of softer lighting and that works best for family portraits.
Our Balnarring studio is a wonderful, creative space with a big range of studio lighting and backgrounds. Daryl brings his wealth of knowledge and personality into the studio to create truly stunning portrait images. The studio really allows clients to connect with the camera. It creates that little bit of razzamatazz – the X factor if you want. Clients often remark about how much fun it is to be photographed in the studio. Many people find it less intimidating being photographed in the studio, away from the public gaze. Studio photography can, of course, be undertaken any time of the day, so it suits young families who have all the obvious time restrictions. We just want to work in with you to get the timing right. No need to rush. Just relax and let us make the magic happen.
HOW MANY FILES DO I GET ?
Once again we keep things nice and simple we do not have a specific number of files per hour, I simply edit the photos and run them through our production workflow and what you get is the best of the best photographs, clients typically receive 50-80 finished files per hour.
Plus and additional 10 ARTISTIC INTERPRETATIONS per hour
If you need anymore info give me a call or hit me up via the contact form below
Daryl Gordon