On the day of the mini-shoot, you’ll arrive ahead of your session, with your outfit and props with you.

I recommend getting into the building ahead of your booked spot (e.g. 15 mins before our session), changing into your photo-shoot outfit (unless you traveled in it), and checking yourself over in a mirror.

When your photo-shoot spot time comes, I’ll welcome you into the space we’re using for photos! We’ll put any props you brought with you in the space to personalise it for your images and take a few minutes to settle into our intentions for our time together.

If you’re planning to style your hair and makeup for the session, please arrive with your hair & makeup ready for photos! (Any time required for hair & makeup will start to eat into our photo- session time.)

Once we’re ready to begin our shoot, we’ll take a moment to ground ourselves, realign with our intentions for your images, and tap into the energy we want to infuse them with. This is a supportive way to honour the creative collaboration we’re stepping into together and get in the zone before we start shooting.

We’ll create a variety of soulful portraits and headshots at the location for 30 mins, before wrapping up our session.

1hr in total.

We’ll have a 30 min photo-shoot with a 15 min buffer either side for getting settled in before we start, and wrapping up / packing away your things at the end.

The car park is gravelled. There are five steps to get from the car park to the building, with a hand rail on both the left and right hand sides. The steps are deep, wide and also gravelled.

The entrance of the building itself is step free. The ground-floor co-working space is all on one level, including a toilet. Access to the main part of the courtyard garden is also step free and the ground is a mix of stone-tiles and lawn, and there are some steps around the garden.

The ‘event space’ is upstairs and there is not a lift to access it, unfortunately.

If you have any accessibility needs at all, please let me know before booking so we can make sure it’ll work for you.

I will also be on hand to help with things like opening doors, carrying belongings, etc at the time of the start of your session. You are also obviously more than welcome to bring a friend to assist you on the day.

Bookings are not refundable, so please be sure you’ll be able to make it to the session before committing.

If you find you are no longer able to go ahead with your mini-shoot, you are welcome to find someone else to take your place but you will not be refunded.

Your spot will be secured!

I’ll be in touch to arrange a call so we can connect, explore the kinds of images that will best serve you and help you prepare for our shoot.

I’ll send over a digital guide to help you prepare, and a checklist of things to remember for the day.

No, you don’t!

You’re so welcome to take part in the mini-shoot day regardless of your career.

As a personal brand photographer I primarily work with small business owners, but if you’d love to take part to get some new photos of yourself personally, for your personal brand, or for any other reason, you are welcome to participate.

If you have any other questions about whether this is suitable for you, just get in touch and we can feel into it.

In a nutshell: desks, chairs, a stool.

In the downstairs co-working space: There are white desks and chairs to use for photos of you working at a desk.

In the upstairs event space: This is more of a blank canvas. We can use a desk (they’re a lovely muted greey/grey colour) and a chair in here if you’d like some shots of this sort in this space, either with the white painted stone wall or the solid-grey background. There will also be a black stool for sitting on. There are a few large artificial yet real-looking plants that can be used in the background of your photos/to the side, if you wish.

In the meeting room: there is a wooden table and chairs, a white book case full of books and various decorative items.

You can get a sense of what the spaces are like from the photos on The Tribes website here. Note that on the day of the shoot, the furniture may be in a different place/setup to in the photos on their website.

Yes! When we have our pre-shoot call, we’ll explore the best props for you to bring to personalise the photos. Having said this, props are completely optional and not required.

Ideas for props could be anything you use in your day to day work, your personal practices, client sessions (e.g. laptop, books, notebook, journal, your ‘making’ tools, oracle cards, yoga props, etc).

We can also use props that point to what you do without having to bring a whole load of stuff with you, e.g. if you’re a stylist, you could bring a few outfits on a hanger, not the whole wardrobe. If you’re a crochet pattern designer, you could bring a bag of favourite yarn, hooks, printed patterns, but not your entire contents of your studio. If you’re a life coach, you could bring your laptop, favourite books, a journal, pen, and any other tools that represent your work with clients or personal practices, etc).

As this is a mini-shoot, we have time for a limited number of stories/scenes in your photos, so when we speak, I’ll support you in deciding what items to bring to tell your story. I advise only bringing a few simple props due to the fact this is a short session.

As we’ll be mostly shooting indoors, rainy weather will not affect our photos, and studio lighting will be used where necessary for the most flattering shots.

If the weather is kind to us, we’ll be able to get a few outdoor shots, but unfortunately I cannot guarantee the forecast (I sooooo wish I could!).

No, I do not retouch your photos or offer this service. I edit your images for colour, brightness and contrast, but I do not remove or change your natural features (e.g. blemishes, body shape, etc).

No, the mini-shoot spots are for one person per session only.

Due to the nature of this offering and the limitations on time, they are not available for groups, teams or business partners, and are only for one person.

If you’d like to have photos taken with your biz partner, colleague or team, pop me an email or book in a call to explore!

If you’d like to bring a friend for support (morally, physically, or otherwise!) they are of course more than welcome to join you.