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Picture this: You’re scrolling through Instagram, and BAM! You’re stopped in your tracks by someone’s amazing photos that just scream personality and professionalism rolled into one delicious visual burrito. Meanwhile, your LinkedIn profile is still sporting that cropped wedding photo from 2018. Ouch. Creative souls, entrepreneurs, and visionaries like you deserve better! Let’s dive into…
Why I Want You To Have Your Best Headshots Ever I’ve gone through countless headshots either for my clients, for other photographers, and on companies’ websites. While many of these have made me smile and even laugh out loud with joy, others have made me cringe and shake my head. You know the headshots I’m…
In the visual feast that is personal branding, colour, or lack thereof, might be the most powerful ingredient of all. For creative entrepreneurs and artistic souls who value authentic connection and emotional depth—colour choices aren’t simply just aesthetic decisions. If you want the TL/DR notes of this article here you go: colour is powerful and…
In the ever-evolving world of personal branding, there comes a time when we need to say goodbye to certain trends that have saturated the market. For entrepreneurs who value authenticity and emotional connection—the era of “laptop on a desk” and “sipping from my favorite mug” photos has reached its expiration date. Listen, I have taken…
5 Reasons Why Personal Brand Photography Benefits You
A brother and sister band branding session in North Vancouver
Personal Branding Photography Vancouver, with Big Cat Creative Personal branding photography Vancouver — Now more than ever, personal branding photography is so important. People want to meet the maker and get to know the heart and personality behind a brand. This helps them decide if that is where they want to invest their cash! This…
Vancouver Personal Brand Photoshoot with Chanel Pel Could you use a glass of style? Sometimes, I think I could use a bucket. Okay… that’s not exactly true, but I feel that way when I’m chasing my son around the living room with lunch stuck to my ratty old t-shirt. Or when I’m out on a…
Vancouver Editorial Photographer Starting 2018 off with IMPACT! Though I usually shoot Weddings and Families, I will never turn away from telling someone’s story through photos so when Scott Salling called me up to help create images for his new website I was excited for a different kind of shoot. Scott is a Fitness Trainer…
Vancouver Editorial Photographer: Burnaby Heights Commercials shoots only make up a small part of my business that is mostly wedding photography and family lifestyle sessions. But, that’s not to say I don’t love them just as much. In fact, this assignment was a blast. The Heights Merchants Association, in Burnaby Heights, reached out to see if…
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Michele Mateus is a Vancouver Portrait Photographer
specialized in Intimate Portraits, Boudoir, Maternity, Headshots, Personal Branding,
and Editorial photography serving Vancouver, North Vancouver, Squamish, Langley, Burnaby, New Westminster, Surrey, Maple Ridge,
West Vancouver, and the Greater Vancouver Region
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I acknowledge with gratitude that I am a settler who lives, works and creates on the unceded core traditional territory of the Kwikwetlem First Nation, which lies within the shared territories of the Tsleil-Waututh, Katzie, Musqueam, Qayqayt, Squamish, and Sto:lo First Nations.
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