Brenner Liana Photography

But I want THAT photographer!

2012-01-25T17:44:00.000+11:00

Lately I have been inundated with wedding enquiries for dates I am already booked. Therefore, today's tip is about how to secure your date with your venue AND your favourite photographer!

First. The early bird catches the worm.
The most obvious thing is to get in early. Most of my clients have booked me a year or more in advance.

Second. Do you need a Saturday?
Saturdays always book out first. Consider whether you need to get married on a Saturday. Friday and Sunday weddings are becoming increasingly popular, with midweek bookings also on the rise. Non-traditional days will see better availability from all your wedding suppliers.

Third. Share the love.
Have a few dates in mind. Couples will often contact me with three or four dates in mind. I confirm my availabilities which allows the couple to have options should their first choice be unavailable with the venue.

Your wedding photos (and the bling on your finger) will be the only thing you're still looking at fifty years down the track. Don't miss out on securing the photographer you love!

B xo

(Image disclosure: Image not taken by Brenner Liana because Brenner Liana doesn't have any grumpy brides. Credit to funlinksdaily.com)

Naleeta & Steven - Wedding

2012-01-21T19:48:00.000+11:00

Lauren & Scott - Wedding

2012-01-14T18:12:00.000+11:00

Sweetly tempting lolly bars

2012-01-11T12:42:00.000+11:00

I decided that 2012 would see helpful tips and ideas introduced to the Brenner Liana blog! Not only will there be plenty more wedding posts to be enjoyed by the romantic hearted and photography enthusiasts alike, but I will also be sharing some food-for-thought for couples planning their own wedding.

So, if you're wondering what to do for your bonbonnieres, I can say without a doubt that LOLLY BARS are the most popular! Young, old, male, female, vintage, black tie, classic, modern, day, evening... people love lolly bars! They are simple, inexpensive, and they allow your guests to pick and choose to their liking. But make sure you have plenty of quantity! People love going a little lolly loopy!

Bxo

Kate & Dan - Wedding

2012-01-07T14:38:00.000+11:00

Brenner Liana published works

2012-01-02T13:06:00.000+11:00

The Summer edition of Melbourne Bride magazine features two of my weddings from last season. These editorials plus others featuring my photographs can be viewed on the blog's Media page. (Access to the Media page can always be found at the bottom of the blog.)
xo

It was the night before Christmas...

2011-12-24T23:07:00.001+11:00

My husband and I were drawn outside late on Christmas Eve by strobes of light echoed by distant rumblings. Barefoot I stepped through the garden bed, blind to any spider webs that may have been entangling the branches around me, until I reached the wooden fence which encircles our home. With dog in hand I climbed each slat until I arrived perched upon the highest post. A position I would occupy for the next 30 minutes until the itchy yearning for my camera becomes more than I can bare.

The storm danced around us for over an hour before the trees rocked and the rain chased us inside.

Elizabeth & Joel - Wedding

2011-12-23T12:46:00.000+11:00

Ina & Rob - Wedding

2011-12-10T19:55:00.003+11:00

Amy & Marc - Wedding: Perth, WA

2011-12-02T13:04:00.002+11:00

Out of office

2011-11-28T09:28:00.000+11:00

I am currently shooting a wedding in Western Australia and will therefore be away from my email from the 28th of November until the 4th of December 2011.

If your enquiry is urgent, please phone me on 0414 388 880. Otherwise I will respond to your email upon my return.

Kindest Regards,
Brenner Liana

Delicia & Lachy - Wedding Sneak Peek

2011-11-26T17:05:00.001+11:00

Jumping on a plane, but had to blog a sneak peek from Delicia and Lachy's Lakes Entrance wedding. More pictures upon my return! xo

Amy & Rob - Wedding

2011-11-18T15:23:00.001+11:00

Peta & Justin - Wedding

2011-11-12T22:53:00.001+11:00

Jessica & Andrew - Wedding

2011-11-05T11:01:00.001+11:00

Lisa & Derek - Wedding

2011-11-04T22:14:00.002+11:00

Saren & Neil - Wedding

2011-10-29T12:12:00.009+11:00

There is nothing I love more than people with infectious smiles. When a smile on one person invokes a grin on another, it is such a beautiful thing.

Saren has one of those smiles.

Luckily for the rest of us who stand present in Saren's company, it is her husband Neil that makes her beam most of all.

I of course, stood behind each frame uncontrollably smiling myself. It felt nice. These two are happy, genuinely happy. And there is something that should be said to those who greet the world with a grin, and those who can laugh out loud.

"Thanks".

Thanks Saren and Neil for finding joy in each other and letting the world play witness.

We are grateful.

Carol & Angus - Wedding

2011-10-28T15:00:00.004+11:00

During my final meeting with Carol and Angus I sat as usual to draft up their photography schedule. "Do you want your reception photographed?" I ask predictably. "I don't know" replies Carol, "What do other people do?"

I look up to see Carol's deer-in-the-headlights expression and I can't help but giggle. She replies with a heart filled laugh which distracts me from my "official duties".

My eyes drop back down to the paperwork sitting on my lap. I'm smiling because I've just realised how good this wedding is going to be.

Carol replied to most of my questions by asking what normally happens and what others normally do. Her vulnerability partnered with Angus' quiet attentativeness gave highlight to the realness of their love. They were having a wedding, they wanted to do it right, but all that was just detail. The substance, the true importance, the only thing that really mattered to them was that they loved each other and wanted to spend the rest of their lives together.

Here I was being asked to photograph a wedding that wasn't about procedure or ego. It was about two people who united in a common love. Two people who on the 28th of October 2011 only wanted to promise the other, "I do."

Bethany Whitmore - Actress

2011-10-26T15:36:00.000+11:00

Shandal & Nick - Wedding

2011-10-22T16:15:00.002+11:00

Lynn & Max - Wedding

2011-10-14T18:21:00.003+11:00

Melissa & Simon - Wedding

2011-10-08T17:50:00.002+11:00

Reception Styling by Shelley Williams @ Inspire Hire

Gotye

2011-10-02T10:56:00.005+11:00

I was asked to photograph Wally de Backer of Gotye during the Melbourne leg of his national tour. Gotye's Making Mirrors and Somebody that I used to know have both sat at #1 on the Australian music charts.
To see the shots which featured in Audio Technology magazine, click through to the Brenner Liana Media page.

Gracie Gilbert - Actress

2011-09-27T14:21:00.001+10:00

Hair and Make Up: Melinda Wain

Rhiannon Fish - Actress

2011-09-25T13:26:00.001+10:00

Test Shoot - Tamsyn W

2011-09-23T13:51:00.001+10:00

Model: Tamsyn W

Make Up: Lauren Donohue

Hair: Emma Dutchman

Wedding - Sharon & Daryl

2011-09-17T12:15:00.004+10:00

Sent: Monday, 19 September 2011 4:10 PM

Brenner,

Daz & I had just sat down in the sun to have a bite to eat at Cowes when I thought I should probably get back in touch with reality....so checked my emails to find your message! I could not wait for Daz to get back to the table and immediately logged on to your blog.... I let out a whoop of excitement! Daz was like .... What???? He understood when I started to breathe again and we looked at our photos....

Now this us all happening on an iPhone....very unsatisfactory! So we then needed to get back to Silverwater....at break neck speed to get the iPad!!!!

Deep breaths now....the photos are amazing. The one of Morgaine & I.....

My very handsome husband ...

The flowers.....just beautiful.

Cal & Morg's .... just can't help to bring a smile to my face.

The photo of Daz & I walking up the road as the sun is going down... Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!!!

We love them .... And can not wait for the rest.

Thank you is really not enough....

Sharon & Daryl

Office Memo

2011-09-15T11:14:00.002+10:00

I am gearing up for the approaching wedding season which officially begins this Saturday. The season is completely booked out and will be my biggest and busiest yet!

While ordinarily winter serves as a wedding photographer's downtime, it has been nothing short of busy busy busy for me. Secret boudoir shoots, meetings with television networks, coordinating and designing upcoming celebrity shoots, hunting for a new studio space, test shoots, magazine publications, and planning the 'what's next?' has kept this little photographer industrious to say the least.

I am giddily excited to be increasingly commissioned by the entertainment industry to provide editorial photography of some of our most recognisable faces. And as I progress deeper into this chapter of my photographic career I become mindful of the personal commitment I made to myself, that each and every photographic assignment in which I partake will be done so with my all.

But I am just one woman.

So to ensure I can stay true to my promise, I will now be limiting wedding commissions to a maximum of 20 per year.

Secret Women's Business

2011-09-05T08:32:00.000+10:00

There is Secret Women's Business going on at Brenner Liana Photography as some of this seasons brides come in for sexy boudoir shoots! As the images are shot in secret for a lucky few husbands-to-be... this is as much as I could share with you today. xo

De Lorenzo - Award Winning

2011-08-19T17:01:00.000+10:00

Hair & Make Up: Emma Dutchman
Salon: Inspiration Hair Design
Models: Rene & Natalie

Merino Snug - Commercial Fashion

2011-08-17T17:59:00.002+10:00

Make Up: Melinda Wain

Styling: Rachael Henderson

Models: Liz, Annabel, Craig

Nikita Leigh-Pritchard

2011-08-03T14:42:00.001+10:00

Georgia Flood - Actress

2011-07-28T15:31:00.000+10:00

Andre de Vanny - Actor

2011-07-28T15:20:00.001+10:00

Dena Kaplan - Actress

2011-07-28T12:56:00.001+10:00

The Kaplan Sisters Blog

Blake Davis - Actor

2011-07-28T11:40:00.000+10:00

Eva Lazzaro - Actress

2011-07-27T09:04:00.000+10:00

Ryan Corr - Actor

2011-07-27T08:56:00.001+10:00

Angus McLaren - Actor

2011-07-26T18:02:00.000+10:00

July Twenty-Six

2011-07-26T08:29:00.001+10:00

My husband said to me that it's better when I'm extremely busy because it means I don't have time to think. As he drifts off to sleep and I lay wide-eyed and kept awake by the noisy thoughts rushing around my head, I realise that what he says is true.

There is never less that five thoughts running through my mind at any one time and ideas come at me so hard and fast I resorted to a notebook to cope with the influx. The thought process is probably one driven by my need to achieve, which I will never declare to be a bad thing, but my most recent sleepless night came about when I discovered 25,000 people have logged onto this blog over the past twelve months.

When I started in this industry two years ago, I was invited to listen to some of Australia's top wedding photographers talk about their business. One comment stuck with me from that evening and reshaped my entire perspective... "I don't care about photography. Photography is a product that I sell to make money."

Wow.

I quickly disregarded this guy as, and lets be honest, a bit of an idiot really, so when this same statement was echoed by the following photography elites I began to question my potential to survive the industry.
I've never been one to be told what to do. So I stopped. I stopped attending the seminars, I stopped reading the material, I stopped caring what other photographers were doing.

I capture photographs of moments that are important to me. And sometimes they are important to me simply because they are important to someone else. I get paid for what I do because people value my work.
And I hold myself accountable for the way I influence you. You, as one of the 25,000 people who have come into this space to look at my photographs and to read what I have to say. I hold myself accountable for the way in which my own comments may influence your own thoughts.

So tonight when the sun drops away and the lamp clicks into darkness, when my husband's talking morphs into snoring, when the thoughts quieten and I drift off into a peaceful slumber, it is in satisfaction of my new voice.
All the previous entries on this blog have been cleared because today I start a new conversation. One of discovery, one of thought, one of inspiration, and as always one of beauty. And I welcome you to take from the conversation what you will and make of it what you choose.

I am Brenner Liana. I take photographs. And this is my blog.

(These photographs were taken while staying at The Deck House in Wye River. I highly recommend this accommodation!)