How to Choose a Photographer
Full galleries over highlight reels, backup gear, contracts and image usage. The unglamorous questions worth asking anyone.
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Before You Book
Choosing a photographer, a setting and a session
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Before You Book
Studio or On Location? How to Choose
Controlled light and privacy, or a place that means something. The trade-offs, honestly, for every session type.
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Boudoir or Glamour? Which Session Is Right for You
Often confused, not the same session. Mood, wardrobe, privacy and who sees the images, compared side by side.
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Portraits
Individuals, families, headshots and branding
Portraits
What to Wear for Your Portrait Session
Colours and fabrics that photograph well, how many outfits to bring, and why the clothes matter less than you think.
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Portraits
Family Portraits with Kids: How to Make It Painless
Timing, outfits, snacks and expectations. How a family session runs when it is built around the children instead of against them.
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Portraits
Headshots and Personal Branding Photos That Actually Get Used
For LinkedIn, your website or a speaker bio. What to wear, which backgrounds work, and why you need more than one frame.
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Locations
Where and when the light works around Gauteng
Locations
The Best Portrait Locations Around Centurion and Pretoria
Gardens, dams, open veld and city streets around Centurion and Pretoria, with notes on light, timing and permits.
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Locations
Golden Hour in Gauteng: Timing an Outdoor Portrait Session
When golden hour falls around Centurion month by month, and how outdoor sessions are planned around highveld light.
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Stefsetherealdream
Boudoir, bridal boudoir and fine art, 18+
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Your First Boudoir Session
What actually happens, how privacy and consent work, what to bring, and why arriving nervous is completely normal.
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Bridal Boudoir as a Wedding Gift: A Quiet Planning Guide
Timing, secrecy, what to bring and how it is delivered. Planning the quietest gift of the wedding, 18+.
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After the Shoot
Editing, delivery, prints and privacy
Put it into practice
Tools that go with the guides
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