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Petite Branding Sessions Pilot!

Just five 1 spot available | Friday 30 August

There are very limited spots available (just 5) for this very special pilot test run - I would LOVE for you to grab one for yourself!

Pilot Special: Personal Branding Petite Session

  • Photos. Update your image library. Photos are the most useful and versatile content across all your online and offline needs.

  • Professional makeup. Yes professional makeup artistry is included! Look and feel camera-ready!

Special pilot sessions you can add on:

  • B-Roll video. Option to add this most versatile style of reels to your social media posts with vertical b-roll video.

  • SOLD OUT. Optional: Canva templates with Content Creation Guide to help make your social media more consistent and strategic.

  • SOLD OUT. Fast Action Bonus: social media direction support. Book before midnight Wednesday 7th August and receive a 30 minute 1:1 video call with me, where you can ask me anything you feel stuck with.

More details below.

Your petite personal branding session includes:

  • Camera-ready makeup application - natural or day (not glam, no false lashes) - by a professional Makeup Artist. Arrive with your hair styled ready to go.

  • Up to 30 minute professional studio shoot time. You will be expertly guided and photographed by one of Wellington’s top portrait photographers (me!)

  • Personal Branding photos will be taken, and you have $250 credit to spend towards purchasing your favourite/s.

  • Immediate image review and selection of your favourites.

  • Professionally edited digital images - all images you purchase will be of the same high quality as my clients value and enjoy.

  • Two outfit changes. Tip: Keep this wardrobe change quick to maximise your shoot time.

  • Two backgrounds. Two of the most popular backgrounds will be used: Plain white wall; White wall with subtle set dressing (ie white bookshelf & set, a plant).

  • Up to three props. Bring contextual items to help personalise and illustrate your imagery ie laptop, cellphone, notebook & pen, coffee cup. Note: No confetti or glitter or liquid.

  • Extra guidance prior to your photoshoot, including: a 10 minute pre-shoot call with Tabitha, and helpful emails to help you arrive at your photoshoot prepared.

Click to view example of one of my B-roll reels.
I edited the clip on my phone using free software to make it snappy, and posted!
This reel uses one of my personal branding photos as a cover photo as well :)

Pilot Special: $490

The photoshoot! The professional makeup! You will also receive a $250 image credit to spend on the day.

  • Per-image pricing: $250 each image.
    Special on-the-day pricing: Buy two and get a third image free (3 images for $500).

Special pilot options to add-on:

B-Roll video: $290

  • B-roll footage is especially designed to be versatile videos for you to use more than once with your different content. These are static one-shots, with no sound, and no editing. Add-on for $290 which will include one short clip. 

  • Additional B-roll footage may be purchased at $150 each, or 2 for $250.

SOLD OUT. Content Creation Success Support: $290 (value $1750)

  • Canva templates with Content Creation Guide - to help make your social media more consistent and strategic.
    Simple Canva templates created by me and adjusted for your brand colours and fonts, ready for you to use.
    Content Creation Guide worksheets have been created as a kickstart DIY kit to help support your success in business. Includes a one-off 1:1 video guide to show you how to use it.
    Pilot offer $290 ($1750 value)

SOLD OUT. Fast Action Bonus: Limited Time Offer

Social Media Direction Support: FREE (book before midnight 7 August)

  • Book before midnight 12pm Wednesday 7th August and receive a bonus 30 minute 1:1 video call with me where you can ask me anything you feel stuck with.
    Call to be used by 30th September 2024.

All pricing is +GST

Let's start!

Petite Branding Sessions Pilot
Book your place now

LIMITED: ONE DAY ONLY. JUST FIVE 1 SPOTS AVAILABLE.

Fill out this form to book your place.

Either myself or my wonderful Studio Manager Amy will reply within the next 24-48 hours during business hours. You’ll be emailed an invoice for your request, and payment by end of the following day is required to book your spot.

All pricing is +GST

Click to view example of one of my B-roll reels.
I edited the clip on my phone using free software to make it snappy, and posted!
This reel uses one of my personal branding photos as a cover photo as well :)

Jarna Whiting, Hair & Makeup Artist, Wellington

“It was the first time I had got my photo taken. It was such an empowering experience.

I felt uncomfortable, but Tabitha encouraged me, she showed me empathy. And it’s being around women like that creates community and care rather than competition, or criticism.

I actually got so emotional when I saw my photos ‘cos I I feel really uncomfortable being photographed. I realised that I spend a lot of time making other people feel beautiful and I’m beautiful regardless of what I do for a living - and it’s all based on the internal environment I create in my mind and who I am as a person.

If you have an opportunity to get a headshot done by Tabitha... Get on it. Stop doubting yourself and book in those headshots!!!

I put off doing my headshots, and ohhh my gosh what an experience. What an experience Tabitha creates. Get on it. Do it! Do it, do it, do it.”

This petite personal branding session is perfect if you:

Want a few quick updates

to complement your existing bank of personal branding images.

Keen to ‘test the waters’

with b-roll video content. You’ve been wanting to test out reels, but have felt stuck.

Don’t want to sacrifice quality

but need only a smaller update and not a full custom session right now.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • If you have found you would love just a few more photos to help illustrate your posts - then it sounds like this would be perfect for you!

    If you plan to have a full custom shoot but not for a few months or another year away - but you also realllly want some more photos to add to your image bank, then this petite session is a great fit!

    If you really want a lot more variety and choices and outfit changes, then a full custom session would be a better fit.

    If you really love the idea of incorporating B-roll as well as photos, then that's what I am test-piloting with on this day - I am looking to offer this within full custom session soon! So chat with me about having a custom personal branding session including b-roll video!

  • This is a petite session, with several clients on the one day, so your time in front of the camera is limited to up to 25-30 minutes, including your outfit changes.

    The time at my studio on the day will be approx 2 hours and 10 minutes. This includes professional makeup application at my studio, up to 25-30 minutes camera time, and selecting your favourites immediately after your session.

  • You’ll receive helpful emails with tips; a digital prep guide; a strategy call with me; guidance on what to wear - up to three top changes; makeup application at my studio with one of my preferred professional Artists; a fully guided and coached headshot photoshoot session; selection of your favourite headshots immediately after your photoshoot; professionally edited high and low resolution digital images ready for you to use; bonus guidance to help you get the most out of using your new headshots.

  • So I offer my clients the highest quality service - and I am so hecking proud of the service we provide! - I am supported by my wonderful Studio Manager Amy, my talented Makeup Artists, and my attention-to-detail retoucher who edits just like I do so my clients can feel that extra level of confidence in the quality of their images.

  • The total Headshot Session fee is $890 +GST. This includes two digital images. Additional images may be purchased separately on the day.

  • My clients choose to do one of two options to suit them best:

    A. They pay for the full $890 +GST fee on booking to secure their spot..

    B. To secure their spot and spread out their payments a little, they pay 50% of the full fee on booking, with the balance due two weeks before their session to secure their spot. If unable to pay in full two weeks before, we may need to move your headshot session to a future date. Headshot Days are scheduled once every two months.

  • Once you decide that - heck yeah! - you want the best headshot photo experience ever, you take care of the booking fee invoice of $890 +GST to secure your date, and we kick off the process! I’ll send you helpful emails and links so you will have all your questions answered, and we’ll arrange a strategy call where I answer any burning questions so you can feel prepared leading up to your photoshoot.

  • You just need to rock up with your hair already styled, and a clean, moisturised face with zero makeup - my professional makeup artist will have a good chat with you to find out what you would like - from super natural to a little more glam, this is about how you would like to look in your photos. Then you can relax and enjoy this complimentary pamper time while she gets you camera-ready!

  • When you contact me about getting professional headshots, it’s part of my service that I send you a digital PDF magazine giving helpful advice on what to wear, the packages I offer, and styling tips.

    You will have time for up to three changes of top, so you have variety to choose from.

    We can also have a good chat about this on your strategy call if you would like.

    Remember to transport your tops on hangers in a suit bag, and hang the bag up in the car to avoid crumpling. Note that even t-shirts carefully folded up will sneakily get creases.

  • Multiple studies have found we have mere seconds to make a good – or bad – first impression. One study even found it took 1/10 of a second! Those must’ve been some judgy-judgy people in that survey…

    Regardless, we’ve all heard the saying “first impressions count”, and while you might be the nicest, most reliable, perfect human that has ever walked this beautiful earth, if your headshots aren’t capturing this, then that potential dream employer may pass you on by quick-smart.

    Yep, we all have days where we shove our hair into a messy bun (and I’m not talking about a stylish TikTok 30 minute styled version - I mean the get-this-hair-off-my-face-stat version). We are all mooching around in our comfy not-for-public-view clothes when working from home.

    Your headshot photos will help you look like that aspirational version of yourself you aspire to be, and designed to draw your ideal employer or recruiter o you - this is YOU on a good day, where you’ve had enough sleep, drunk all the water, and your Inbox is zero.

    Be a cool nerd – do your homework. Look through lots of other headshot imagery to get an idea of what outfits look best to your eye, and the look/s you want to portray. Consider your target audience – who are you wanting to work with, and what do you want them to think? We can also have a chat about this on our strategy phone call, and I provide a PDF guide to help as well.

    I also share details for one of my absolute fav Personal Stylists if you desire extra help with what to wear.

  • You will receive two digital images included in your headshot fee. Each image will come as both low and high resolution to suit your various needs.

    If you love more than two images (and most people do - I’m really good at getting great photos of you! -you will have the opportunity to purchase additional images on the day.

    Additional images will be just $250 +GST each, or take advantage of our on-the-day special and buy two and get one free!

  • First up, know that what you are feeling is very human. 99.99% of my clients feel some sort of nerves thinking about having their photo taken: from nervous-excited through to barely even making it to my studio and shaking and sweating so much!

    Now you might be looking at the photos of my clients and thinking they look super relaxed / confident / authentically themselves, there’s no way they were as nervous as you..! Please know that most - almost ALL of them - felt that same way.

    My clients will tell you that they focussed on just getting themselves to my studio on the day of their photoshoot - and that I guided them through everything from there.

    You may not believe it right now, I know with absolute certainty that you will be able to do it, too.

    At some point during their photoshoot, many of my nervous clients find themselves exclaiming “This is so much fun! Everyone should do this!”. I always reply - “Please let them know that, because I could bang on about this all day, but it’s not until they experience it for themselves that they believe it!”

  • I will photograph you on a white background and a dark background, like you see in the images above.

    You will be guided through different poses and expressions so you have a fantastic variety to select from in a short space of time.

    Even if you feel nervous about being photographed, I have tips and tricks to help you get the best headshots you’ve ever had!

  • It is! :)

    As this is the first time I am doing B-roll as well as photos for clients. I want to test this concept in practice, and we've worked well together, so I know we'll capture fantastic content for you :)

Richard Falkner, Actor, and Writer, Creator, Archivist, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision, Wellington

“I’ve had several fantastic experiences with Tabitha, and her work is second to none.

She is incredibly friendly and supportive through what can be an unsettling process for anyone. Her skills in behind the camera, combined with her ability to put people at ease and coach them towards great shots result in excellent pictures.

[In Tabitha you have a] headshot provider that is without parallel in my experience of 20+ years of getting headshots.”