Hi, I’m Valent, principal photographer of Premier Corporate Headshots Sydney.
I love photography, but I love transforming people more. Nothing is better than having a client change from “I’m not good at photos” to “I never thought I could look this good!”
Photography is there to win you business. Have you seen websites filled with fake stock photos, or “professional” headshots that have a blank expression that says nothing? What a lost opportunity!
We help you connect with your clients through your photography, so they feel a trust and confidence in what you say. That way, they’re more likely to contact you first!
It’s our ability to discover your qualities, to draw out your natural personality, that makes our business portraits so valuable. Unlike other photographers, you’ll never see us photographing products, food, or architecture. We specialise in people, so that we can help you to feel comfortable, confident and be at your very best.
Our business portrait sessions are a relaxing experience that suits even the most camera shy. Read more about The Experience.
We’ve photographed for many including:
My Story
I hated photos when I was young. Dad at family events was always “line up and say cheese”. We would be holding a smile for like 10 seconds and he still hadn’t taken the photo. It was painful. So painful.
I went to a boarding school. In the library I became lost in images of land and starscapes, nature and animals in magazines such as National Geographic. There was something about photography that was fascinating to me.
Still, it wasn’t until uni that I got my first camera. I was going to Japan, my first ever trip alone! I read all I could about photography and bought a little automatic camera. I visited Japan for 3 weeks and came back with 46 rolls of film! The photo lab in Japan knew me by name.
I loved holding the prints and putting them into albums. My family would say how my shots looked like a postcard. They meant it as a compliment, but it left me feeling something was missing. It was picture perfect, but there was no soul in the shots, nothing that connected. What was missing was the human element, though I wouldn’t understand that for a while to come.
The big cameras
My wife introduced me to the big camera. I fell in love with photography all over again. Like most photographers, initially it was the technical side that grabbed my interest. We spent hours at photographing anything and everything, studied the tiniest details of each bit of equipment. I learned all the settings, how to change night into day and vice versa.
I started shooting freelance for a small magazine, doing fashion shows, interviews, parades, food and products, everything from articles to advertisements. It was great fun.
The revelation
One day I was asked to photograph a friend’s baby. “Not a problem,” I said. I had lights, I had props, I had all the equipment. When I showed mum the photographs, tears came into her eyes. “You’ve captured her personality!”
Don’t all photos capture a person? It finally it dawned on me. It wasn’t about capturing what she looked like. It was about capturing who she was. There was something more to a photograph than its elements.
It was the emotions and connection that pulled the viewer in and gave the photograph value. It had the impact to make your potential client pause and take note.
Initially this pulled me into baby and family portraits. But soon I began noticing business headshots, and commercial portraits. Many of them were dull and lifeless, didn’t want me to buy from those companies at all.
Business owners intertwine their identity with that of their businesses. By capturing that part of their person that made their business unique, we could connect with viewers in a way that all the bragging in the world would not. It would create genuine looking photographs that naturally attracted clients with great fit.
I found that the more I learned about a business person’s industry and market, the more I could create photographs that connected with viewers in a meaningful way. We could create a photograph that conveyed the right levels of trust and confidence. It made clients feel more comfortable with you, and this meant they called you first rather than a competitor. And wasn’t this exactly what you want?
Now Premier Corporate Headshots Sydney exists to help small businesses convey their message authentically and effectively to their market.
Let’s get started!
Let’s start with a complimentary phone or in person consultation to find out what is important to your business and goals.