I've been shooting professionally for over a decade across multiple specialties — media-pass coverage at Powercruise and official coverage of Tuned events including JDM Festival, dedicated landscape and travel work shot on planned trips to Yosemite, Mt Cook, NYC and across the world, commercial portraits, brand campaigns, families, products. Different disciplines, different briefs, the same standard.
Elite Media Studio launched as a full-time commercial studio in 2026 — but the decade of work behind it didn't start then. The studio is new; the experience isn't. It's a consolidation: experience across automotive events, travel, portraits, brand and product work, brought under one roof and pointed squarely at commercial work. Different audiences than the early years — the same eye, the same standard of finish.
A few of those frames went further than expected. 1320 Video — a US automotive platform with four million subscribers — has run my imagery. Sydney.com, Destination NSW's tourism platform, recognised my work personally. Sony Australia & New Zealand and Georges Camera Sydney have both shared my work to their audiences.
What I learned over those years isn't technical. The strongest images come from real exchanges, not perfect setups. A founder who's been on the phone all day relaxes when the conversation is good. A family that arrives nervous loosens when nobody's rushing them. A product looks better when whoever's lighting it actually cares about the brand it belongs to. The technical craft makes those images possible. The conversation is what makes them land.
Working with EMS means trusting that — you're hiring an eye, not directing a contractor. The brief tells me what you need; I figure out how to make the image work. If I'm not the right photographer for what you're trying to make, I'll say so. If I am, you'll get work that does what you came for.
When I'm not behind the camera, I'm probably in the studio with Bello — our resident Ragdoll, lifelong studio presence, occasionally the unscheduled subject of a portrait session.
Sydney-born. Studio fully launched in 2026 because the work is ready for it.
A typical engagement looks like this — you reach out, the studio responds by the next business day, a tailored proposal lands within the week. If you're happy with the scope, an agreement is signed and the booking fee locks your date in. A pre-shoot brief — Session Guide, Project Brief, or full Pre-Production Brief depending on what you're shooting — lands in your inbox so you can capture the operational details on your own time, not on a phone call. Then we shoot.
Pricing is structured and transparent. Brand and business work is priced as fixed packages — half-day, full-day, multi-day campaign, or ongoing retainer. Personal and family work is priced per service, with separate in-studio and on-location rates. Specialty services like aerial, video, real estate, events, and product photography are available standalone or as add-ons. No hidden fees, no agency markup, no fine-print surprises.
After the shoot, edited images are delivered to a private gallery — download them, print them, share them, they're yours to use. No platform lock-in. For personal, portrait, and family work, that's the whole story: full personal use, no licence fees. For commercial and brand work, a clear usage licence is set out in your proposal, matched to how you'll actually use the images.
The studio works with the people behind the work — small business owners, marketing teams, professional services firms, founders, creators, and families across Sydney. Different industries, different briefs, one consistent standard. If your work or your moment deserves to be photographed properly, the studio is set up to do it.
Most clients come back. New menu, new product line, new staff, new project, new season — the studio gets folded into the budget for whatever the business is shipping next. Returning clients book at 10% off the base rate, and because it's the same eye across every shoot, the visual library stays coherent no matter how much time passes between them.