Lead Portrait Photographer

Hero Shot Photography; Sydney; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Hero Shot is seeking an exceptional senior portrait photographer to join our team in Australia. You will lead high-level portrait work, demand excellence, and elevate the craft with every shoot.

You should have a minimum of five years of solid portrait experience, expert people skills, and the ability to coach clients through lighting, posing and expression while delivering consistently outstanding images.

Qualifications

• Lighting people beautifully in the studio and on location
• Posing and directing different body types, ages and personalities
• Coaching expression and noticing the small details that make a portrait work
• Making nervous or camera shy people feel comfortable quickly
• Producing consistently excellent work, not just occasional standout images
• Working efficiently without making people feel rushed
• Solving lighting and location challenges confidently and independently
• Maintaining an extremely high technical standard

Skills

Lighting

Posing & directing

People coaching

Client comfort

Quality output

Efficiency

Lighting/location problem solving

Technical excellence

Job description

Hero Shot is seeking an exceptional senior portrait photographer to join our team in Australia. You will lead high-level portrait work, demand excellence, and elevate the craft with every shoot.

You should have a minimum of five years of solid portrait experience, expert people skills, and the ability to coach clients through lighting, posing and expression while delivering consistently outstanding images.