Shae Estella is an internationally acclaimed wedding & portrait photographer based on the East Coast of Australia. Whilst Shae calls the Sunshine Coast home, she regularly is invited to travel Australia wide for her couples and accepts a limited amount of destination weddings per year and has photographed weddings in Scotland, Iceland, Spain, Greece, Italy, New Zealand, Fiji and Ireland.
Combining her love of editorial photography background with a sensitive eye for story telling moments, her images are known for their honest connections and unbridled beauty.
Shae is known for her quick shooting ethic to produce a variety of beautiful engaging images. Her strength of building fantastic connection with her new clients quickly to produce natural photographs at weddings and during engagement sessions means she has built a name for herself to be reliable, efficient and effective. Her work is described as editorial, candid, fun, adventurous and chic.
Shae currently shoots between 40-50 weddings per year around Australia and overseas and always attaches a strong mindful ethic to her photography to focus on what crafts a beautiful photo beyond perfect technical aspects.
Her workshops heavily focus on:
- Delivering strong portfolio content building opportunities with styled shoots at some of the best locations around Australia.
- Teaching up and coming photographers how to gain traction in the industry quickly and work full time.
- Using the correct cameras, lenses, flash, camera settings and techniques for working in fast paced environments of weddings.
- Successful SEO, social media and networking techniques
- Incorporating current wedding photography trends into your portfolio
- Building solid positive connections with clients that last years beyond the wedding for future revenue
- Workflow from start to finish with clientele (managing stress, expectations and limiting any issues that may arise)
- Efficient editing, post production and delivery
Workshops run from online editing intensives and Q&A's, half day content shooting workshops to 3 day retreats around Australia.
What is in your camera bag?
- Sony A7IV
- Sony 35mm FE 1.8
- Sony 55mm FE 1.8
- Sony 85mm Zeiss 1.8
- Sony 16-35mm GM
- Sony HVL-F45RM
What is your go to in your Alpha kit and why?
I absolutely love my Sony 55mm 1.8 Lens! It's light for international travel, beautiful bokeh and creamy lens flare
Most memorable moment shooting with Alpha?
Flying to Iceland for an elopement, hiking two hours along the black sand beach to reach the Solheimasandur Plane Crash from 1970 to have the couple climb on top of it for a sunset portrait to the end of their wedding day. An incredible experience with them where we went out on an adventure and came back as such good friends with a moment we will all cherish forever. Made even better as no one else was there that evening at 11pm