Ashleigh Taylor

Photographer / Educator

Ashleigh Taylor Portrait

How To Create Your Signature Brand Imagery

It’s no secret that influencers and creators need powerful, unique and scroll stopping images to share on social media. These images become more than pieces of content, but become part of your branding and marketing. But what to do if you’re not a professional photographer and feeling overwhelmed. In this session, you’ll get the insider tricks from a professional photographer who specializes in personal brand imagery. You’ll learn how to define your brand story and message in imagery and then how to go out and create those images for yourself. We’ll cover everything from planning and preparation to composition and styling to the tech. This talk is for you if you know it’s time to up level the images you use to brand and market yourself.

Takeaways

-How to define your own brand style and message and communicate that through aligned images -How to prep for a brand photoshoot -The types of images you will want to create.-How to style yourself, how to style your set and how to pose yourself -What tools and tech needed (from entry level to more advanced) create and light their own brand images

Biography

Ashleigh Taylor is a portrait photographer based in Santa Barbara CA. She is an accredited Master photographer with The Portrait Masters.

Ashleigh has been a professional full time photographer since 2010. She started in Weddings and her work was published in print in The Knot Southern California, Ceremony Magazine, Seacoast Weddings Magazine, and The Bride and Bloom Southern California. Additionally, her work was also published online on Style Me Pretty, Grace Ormonde Wedding Style, Green Wedding Shoes, Cosmopolitan.com, Brides.com, and The Wedding Chicks just to name a few.

In 2013, Ashleigh opened her brick and mortar branding, boudoir & portrait studio in Santa Barbara and in 2016 she transitioned to shooting portraits full time (leaving weddings behind). She has been recognized 4 years in a row as one of the top two photographers in Santa Barbara by the Santa Barbara Independent. In 2016, due to the success of her studio she was featured on Sue Bryce’s Studio Tours series.

Ashleigh is an official mentor with The Portrait System. She also is an educator in The Portrait Masters Store where she has two courses – one that teaches photographers how to book more clients using Instagram and one that teaches photographers the ins & outs of getting fully booked using Facebook Ads.