Gold Coast Photographers

Dave Fox is an award-winning photographer with extensive experience ranging from weddings, special events, corporate headshots, and portraiture work. He has two Masters degrees (MBA, MIM) and has over 25 years experience in business as an entrepreneur. Dave's forte is being able to bring the best out of his subjects by getting them to relax and not think about their being photographed. His goal for every shoot is to exceed expectations and show people how beautiful they are.

Sarah Petersen has been working as a professional real estate photographer for the past 6 years and running her own business for the past year. Prior to this, she worked as an in-house real estate photographer for the Professionals Real Estate Group servicing the Northern New South Wales and the Gold Coast areas. This experience is specifically in medium to high end properties as well as commercial businesses. She can also provide professional colour 2D floor plans for any business or home layout. Her employment background is in customer service, artistic photography, film and television which gives her a great eye for detail!

Brandan has been taking photographs since high school, the passion continued through many years of travel with lots of focus on skateboarding/surfing with friends. A big new area is oceanside with the added use of a drone to show a whole new perspective of the world. This has continued into creating travel vlog style videos and recently he has moved into making event/restaurant videos to be used as content on social media.

Victor Montagner is a experienced photographer from Brazil. He has worked with several campaigns for local brands in his country. He has bachelors degree in communication / television and photography direction from Universidade Anhembi Morumbi with a few extensions in photography. Victor is specialised in fashion, commercial and architecture photography. He is passionate, creative and knows how to find a good smile even in a shy person. The camera is not only an extension of his hand but his heart.

Jennifer Berot is an experienced professional photographer from Argentina. She has worked with several leading international brands like Adidas, Wrangler, Lee and UFO. She has a bachelors degree in photography from the School of Artistic Photography Andy Goldstein (Argentina). Jen specialises in commercial, product, event and portrait photography. Some legends say that she has been seen once without her camera, but that is still yet to be proved.

Peter Crichton is an experienced full time professional photographer of 24 years. He studied at Photography Studies College Melbourne and then went on to build a photography business on the Gold Coast in 1996. His passion is photographing people with over 2000 shoots in Weddings, Portraits, family, Corporate events and commercial photography. Peter has a passion for finding the very best character and expressions in people and bringing those emotions and moments out in the finished image. Peter says I'm so happy when a person, couple or family say " You have captured our true characters perfectly in that image" When shooting commercial work it is important to create an interesting, colorful or emotional image which grabs the customers attention says Peter.

Lisa Bark is Professional Photographer accredited with the Australian Institute of Professional Photography. She holds a Diploma of Photo Imaging. Lisa specialises in providing engaging images for small and medium size businesses. These images are used on social media to connect with their audience and potential customers to increase sales. She also has experience with headshots, events, products, realestate, formals, sport, and portraits, family and travel photography.

Award winning Brisbane and Gold Coast Photographer Melissa Belanic has spent well over a decade working in the photographic industry. Melissa at Just B Photography can capture those memorable lifetime moments for you to treasure for many years to come. Specialising in weddings, portraits, advertising, real estate, corporate, and fashion photography. Studied 2 years full time Advanced Diploma of Photography, graduating with Distinctions Images published in: Black and White Magazine, (inside) Interior Review, The Advertiser, Attitude Magazine, Sunday Mail (Adelaide and Brisbane), Gold Coast Bulletin, Room Magazine, Label Magazine, Zoo Magazine, Gold Coast Life Weekly, Front Cover of Early Bird, Tweed Daily News to name a few.

Nico is a Colombian photographer based on the Gold Coast, Australia. He started his career as a photographer in 2012 right after he finished his diploma in photo-imaging. Throughout the years he has done a lot of traveling/landscape photography which he still enjoys. He has done work for a variety of clients in different areas of photography such as: wedding, food, maternity, events, family and animal photography . He has also relevant experience doing commercial work as well as portraiture, however the style that he enjoys the most and he considers his passion is action and sports photography. From 2015 surf photography became his obsession and it is the type of photography where he spend most of his time.

Bertrand Schmitt is based on the Gold Coast and has a passion for beautiful photography. His expert areas are Fitness and portrait photography.His cameras of choice are the Canon 5D MkIII and the Canon 7D, which he uses also for landscape, wedding, commercial and other forms of creative photography. Bertrand loves working with natural and artificial lights and discovering how a seemingly minor change in them can make a huge impact on an image – turning an ordinary photo into awe-inspiring moment.

Jenelle Stafford has been employed in content creation, public relations and marketing roles, in addition to freelance photography, writing and social media advisory roles for several years. Her ability to develop relevant, original and visually appealing imagery whilst adhering to client briefs has lead to a solid list of repeat clients. This experience, combined with her Bachelor of Journalism specialising in Photojournalism and general marketing experience and training, has created an excellent foundation of extremely thorough media production skills and the ability to communicate information in a clear and concise manner to any audience. Jenelle has extensive post-production editing skills and is familiar with the advanced use of Adobe Suite. Having run her own photography business for years, Jenelle is accustomed to organising and executing location and studio shoots with multiple participants in a relaxed, enjoyable and productive manner. Every model she has ever worked with has thanked her for making them feel so comfortable and at ease regardless of their experience levels, which is what Jenelle strives for! Key areas of Jenelle's photography experience include pets, portraiture, studio photography, dance, glamour, corporate, events, food and product photography. Jenelle is proficient in undertaking tasks quickly and efficiently, and has developed an acute eye for detail.

Trevor is a photographer and videographer currently based in Sydney Australia. Born and raised in Toronto Canada, he attributes his success in the industry to the work ethic that he learned from his family. Growing up he always excelled in art which led him to photography. He began to consider photography as a career path in 2013 which led to him to his love for travel and desire to work abroad. Trevor has worked in North America, Central America, Europe, Asia and is currently building a life and career in Australia.

Richard Snell is a freelance photographer who enjoys capturing great moments and memories for his clients. A big fan of lighting using both high speed sync for those wow shots and the use of mobile flash to bring life into those images. Richard spent a year training in New Zealand before making the move to the Gold Coast. Friendly, warm and willing to go the extra mile for his clients Richard will work with you every step of the way and work to exceed your expectations

My biggest commitment is to always evolving and up-levelling my skillset as a photographer, we are all forever learning. I continue to invest in ongoing trainings and workshops within my niche to stay on trend and expand my skill set offering. I have completed compositional training with the international food photographer Rachel Korinek and completed style workshops with Aussie style icon Megan Morton and gourmet traveller magazine's Emma Knowles. As a part-time wedding stylist, understanding style principals is beneficial and a transferrable skill for my photography work. Not only can i take a great photo, but i have great styling skills to compliment this. Plus, I have Italian heritage so food is in my blood! I bring all of my passion to this role.

About 5 years ago, I started as a professional photographer for wedding photography, family photography, real estate photography, Last year, I got my small studio in Southport on the Gold Coast. I started the headshots and portrait photography there. I want to make my customer happy with my photography.