Photography questions, answered.

Very much.

Queer couples, trans and non-binary people, chosen families, unconventional relationships and celebrations that refuse to fit neatly inside a box are welcome here.

Your relationship or family does not need a footnote. Tell me who matters to you and I will photograph you with the same care, respect and enthusiasm I bring to everybody else.

I have spent 15 years photographing people and have now been booked to capture more than 500 weddings and elopements.

That experience means I know what to do when the light changes, the timeline slips, the weather turns or somebody important has vanished at the exact moment we need them. It does not mean I arrive and start bossing everybody around.

Calm guidance when it helps. Room to enjoy yourselves when it does not.

Weddings, elopements, Registry Office weddings, micro weddings—or, as I call them, mini weddings—plus families, maternity, newborns at home, couples, individuals and branding photography for small businesses.

The common thread is people. Real connection, interesting light and photographs that feel like somebody rather than a performance for the camera.

You can see what I photograph here.

Completely normal. Most people feel awkward when a camera is first pointed their way.

I will not leave you standing in silence and tell you to “act natural.” I will find the good light, give you simple prompts and gently fix the occasional slouch, T-Rex arm or wonky hand.

You will have enough direction to feel looked after and enough room to remain unmistakably yourselves. No performance required.

Yes. Little Car Photography is a registered Australian company and an insured professional photography business.

If your venue needs a Certificate of Currency, please let me know and I can provide one.

All over South Australia—and further away when the right adventure appears. (I’ve photographed weddings all over Australia).

For weddings with five or more hours of coverage, ordinary road travel is included from the Clare Valley through Adelaide to McLaren Vale.

For elopements, micro weddings, portraits and branding sessions, ordinary road travel is included across Adelaide and north through the Clare Valley.

If your location falls outside the included area, I will quote the travel cost before you book. Parking up to $50 is included. Any required venue or photography permit, parking above $50, accommodation, flights or substantial additional travel will be discussed and quoted clearly.

Some of them. A surcharge of between 10% and 25% may apply depending on the particular day, and it will always be shown in your quote before you book.

I do not accept bookings for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day or Easter Sunday.

Send me an enquiry with the useful bits: what you are planning, who is involved, where it is happening and any date or general timeframe you have in mind.

If I am available, I will send you a personalised quote. Quotes remain open for seven days, but the date is not held while you decide.

Your booking becomes official when all three things are complete:

1. You have accepted the quote.

2. You have signed the contract.

3. You have paid the booking fee.

Until all three are done, the date remains available to other people.

The current booking fees are:

• $350 for portraits

• $500 for elopements

• $750 for micro or mini weddings

• $1,000 for weddings

Branding photography terms are personalised to each unique booking.

Once your booking is confirmed, I remove that date from my calendar and begin the admin, planning and preparation that happens long before I pick up a camera.

The booking fee recognises that work and the very real possibility that I will turn down other enquiries for your date. It is generally non-refundable, with the postponement and cancellation terms set out clearly in your contract.

You can pay by bank transfer or by credit or debit card using the options shown on your invoice.

Fortnightly and monthly payment plans are very welcome, but payment plans must be made by scheduled bank transfer. You can also make occasional additional bank-transfer payments if you would rather chip away at the balance without setting up a formal plan.

Please always use the current banking details shown on your invoice or inside your client portal. If you ever receive an unexpected message saying my bank details have changed, check with me using a contact method you already know before sending money. Scammers are deeply unromantic.

For weddings, elopements, micro weddings and portraits, the final balance is due five business days before the photography.

Branding works a little differently. Please contact me to discuss and personalise your terms.

Popular spring and autumn Saturdays can disappear more than a year ahead. Weekdays, winter dates and delightfully last-minute plans can be much easier.

The useful answer is: enquire when you know you want me there. You do not need every detail sorted first, and there is no shame in asking late. Some excellent dates somehow remain completely untouched until the right people find them.

Usually, yes. Extra coverage can be added before the day—or sometimes on the day—if I am available.

Reducing a booking may be limited by the smallest package available for your date and the agreement you have already made. Tell me as soon as your plans change and I will explain the options without making it weird.

Please give me a family photograph list. I love knowing which combinations matter, who has travelled a long way and whether four generations are about to stand in the same place for the first time in years.

I also want to know about the people, details and moments that are most important to you. Inspiration, mood and Pinterest boards are welcome too. They help me understand what catches your eye; they are not a shopping list of somebody else's photographs that we need to reproduce exactly.

I can plan for priorities. I cannot guarantee every candid moment at a live event, because humans remain gloriously unscripted.

I can read names, give directions and make myself heard when necessary. I am not, however, secretly an MC or event organiser.

Please nominate one or two useful, reasonably loud people who know the guests and can help me find whoever has wandered to the bar. One person from each side of the family—or an excellent planner or MC—can save an astonishing amount of time.

Absolutely. I am very happy to work alongside videographers and content creators, and your guests are welcome to use their phones and cameras.

The practical truth is that every extra camera can affect eyelines, expressions, timing and where people stand. A phone appearing in the aisle, five people calling a child's name or another flash firing at the wrong moment can change the professional photograph.

For the important planned photographs, I need a clear view and a little space to do my job. I will offer the same professional courtesy to the rest of your creative team.

Rain is not automatically a disaster. Wind, fog, clouds and the occasional shower can all make brilliant photographs. I will look for shelter, move things around and work with what the day gives us.

Actual danger is different. Catastrophic fire conditions, flooding, lightning, unsafe heat, road closures or rain heavy enough to damage equipment may mean pausing, changing location or getting everybody somewhere safe. During heatwaves we will need more shade, water and breathing room. During a downpour I may need to protect equipment that is weather resistant, not invincible.

For portraits, if the conditions will be genuinely unsafe or miserable, we will find another mutually available date. If it is simply a little wet and you want to continue, I will bring my gumboots.

Your booked coverage has an agreed starting and finishing time. I include a courtesy buffer of up to 15 minutes when I reasonably can, because real days do not run like Swiss watches.

After that, additional coverage may be added at my current rate if I am available and you approve it. If something begins late, the finishing time does not automatically move with it—so please tell me as soon as the timeline starts doing something adventurous.

Unless your quote says otherwise, photography coverage is continuous. If you need a substantial break between the ceremony and reception, tell me before booking so I can confirm whether split coverage is possible and quote it properly.

Never required. Always appreciated.

If I am working while most humans are usually eating, I will either grab a bite of my own or happily relish the one you provide. I am vegetarian. Please ask about any second photographer or assistant's dietary needs rather than assuming I have recruited an entire tiny vegetarian army.

Let me know if speeches, dances or another important event will happen during the likely meal break. I would rather eat around the action than discover halfway through a forkful that somebody has started the champagne tower.

Wedding, mini wedding, and elopement clients will receive something ready to share within one week. That may be a lovely little preview or, if the entire gallery is already finished, the full thing instead.

Complete galleries are usually delivered within:

• 2-4 weeks for portraits

• 4-6 weeks for elopements

• 6-10 weeks for micro or mini weddings

• 6-10 weeks for weddings

Branding galleries may be available to view within two weeks, but download access is provided once the final payment has cleared.

Every package includes a guaranteed minimum number of photographs. I do not cap your gallery or hide genuinely good photographs because you have reached an arbitrary number.

“Finished photographs” means every distinct photograph I have professionally selected and edited. I remove duplicates, near-duplicates, test frames, missed focus and accidental captures—the things that would turn viewing your gallery into an exhausting game of spot-the-difference.

If there are 1,000 photographs that are genuinely good and belong in the story, I will edit and deliver 1,000 photographs.

Usually, both. Where a usable colour source exists, I generally include a colour and black-and-white version of each finished photograph.

Occasionally a photograph is created, captured or supplied in a black-and-white-only format—most obviously when I use black-and-white film. A colour version cannot be invented where no colour source exists, so that photograph will be delivered in black and white only.

Every finished photograph is edited. That includes selecting the strongest frames, adjusting exposure, colour, contrast and crop, and applying my natural, film-inspired colour treatment. Editing is what turns a camera file into a finished Little Car photograph.

Retouching changes what was physically present in the photograph: removing a photobomber, pimple, stain, sign, stray object or another distraction. I may quietly remove something especially distracting, but I do not automatically inspect everybody for perceived flaws or reshape people without being asked. You are a person, not a renovation project.

You may request standard retouching on your first 20 photographs at no extra cost. Additional standard retouching starts at $11 per photograph, depending on what is required. Complex compositing, substantial object removal, face swaps or body reshaping may need a separate quote—or may be something I decline.

Retouching requests need to be made within 12 months of the photography.

No. RAW files are unfinished working files, not an additional version of the finished product.

You will receive the high-resolution finished photographs that survive my professional selection and editing process. You get the cake, not the flour, the accidental oven photo and fourteen nearly identical attempts at the icing.

Yes. I love shooting film, and it can be added for $100 per roll. That includes the film, professional development and large digital scans from my selected laboratory.

I currently photograph 35mm film with a Leica M and 120 film with a Mamiya RB67. A 35mm roll allows up to 36 exposures; a roll of 120 film allows up to 10. Exposures are not the same as guaranteed finished photographs—film is beautifully physical, slightly unpredictable and occasionally determined to keep us humble.

Film is photographed during your existing booked coverage rather than adding more time. It is naturally slower than digital photography, so choosing film may mean fewer digital frames are captured during that part of the day.

Film scans depend on laboratory turnaround and may arrive separately after the digital gallery.

Yes. Personal photography packages include high-resolution downloads and a personal-use licence, so you can print your photographs and share them with friends and family.

Please do not add social-media filters or substantially change the editing. A Little Car Photography credit is always appreciated when you share publicly, but I am not going to appear in your kitchen if you forget.

Branding clients receive the commercial-use licence described in their quote and contract. Other businesses, wedding vendors and publications need their own permission before using the photographs for commercial or editorial purposes.

My contract allows me to use photographs in my portfolio unless you ask for privacy. Your comfort matters more to me than filling a square on Instagram.

If you want your entire gallery, particular people or particular photographs kept private, please tell me in writing—ideally before the photography. I will respect it. You can always change your mind later if you are smitten and decide the world deserves to see them after all.

Your online gallery will remain available for at least 12 months from delivery, and I keep a backed-up copy of your finished photographs for at least 12 months after the photography.

After that, I cannot guarantee that recovery will be possible. Please download your gallery promptly and keep at least two copies in separate places. A computer and the external drive sitting beside it are emotionally separate, but a house fire would disagree.

If your gallery has expired and an archived copy still exists, a recovery and re-delivery fee may apply.

Tell me as soon as you can. A new date needs to work for both of us and is not confirmed until we have agreed to it in writing and completed any required booking steps.

Longer weddings and micro weddings usually book much further ahead than elopements, so they need more notice. For those bookings, giving at least six months' notice gives you the best chance of transferring the full booking fee. With less notice, only part—or none—of the original booking fee may transfer.

Elopements have shorter notice bands because they tend to book closer to the date. Portrait and branding sessions have their own postponement terms.

Your signed contract contains the exact notice periods, transfer amounts and timeframe for choosing the new date. If illness, dangerous weather or something genuinely beyond everybody's control is involved, tell me what has happened and we will work through the relevant terms like humans.

If you cancel rather than postpone, the booking fee is generally retained. It covered work already begun and the date I reserved for you.

With the notice required by your contract, payments made beyond the booking fee are generally refunded less any work already completed and non-recoverable travel, accommodation, products or third-party costs. A short-notice cancellation may affect the amount that can be refunded.

Your signed contract sets out the terms applying to your particular booking, and your rights under Australian Consumer Law still apply.

I have a trusted network of experienced photographers and will make every reasonable effort to arrange a suitable replacement if serious illness, injury or an emergency prevents me from attending.

Where possible, I will still handle the planning, communication, selection and editing so the finished gallery remains consistent with Little Car Photography.

If a suitable replacement cannot be found, the payments received for the affected photography will be returned in accordance with your contract and Australian Consumer Law. I cannot promise that nothing difficult will ever happen. I can promise I have a plan and will not quietly disappear into the shrubbery.