You choose the service and package that fit what you need and send an enquiry. You share your inspiration along with a few clear photos of yourself. We confirm the details and send a PayPal invoice. Production begins once your 60% deposit is received, and the balance is due before your finished high-resolution images are delivered.

Yes. Likeness is the whole point. We work from your own photos and direct every image so your features, proportions and expression stay recognisably yours.

No. We deliberately avoid the plastic, over-smoothed look. Every image is reviewed for natural skin texture, accurate proportions, realistic lighting and believable fabric detail before it reaches you.

Clear, well-lit photos of your face from a few different angles, taken recently. Avoid heavy filters, sunglasses, hats and group shots where your face is small or partly hidden.

It depends on the service and how much refinement your shoot needs — larger packages and creative work take longer than a single professional portrait. We give you an estimated turnaround when we confirm your shoot, so you always know what to expect before you pay.

Variety. Every package is a set of finished images from one sitting, with varied poses and angles across the set — different framing, different expressions, different crops — so you have a collection to choose from rather than one photograph repeated.

Yes. If something doesn't feel like you, tell us and we'll refine it. Revisions are handled personally, not through an automated queue.

Yes. Your finished images are yours to use for personal and professional purposes, including websites, social profiles, press and marketing.

Payment does not happen on the website.

Once your shoot has been reviewed and confirmed, Melisse will send you a PayPal invoice directly. Production begins once a 60% deposit is received, and the remaining 40% is due before your final images are delivered.

Professional work with creative direction behind it: editorial portraits, unusual compositions, conceptual studio images and illustration. You are paying for the concept as much as the images, which is why it costs more than the Professional service. Illustrated work is artwork rather than photography, so the realism standards that govern our studio portraits don't apply to it.

Yes, prepared to the specifications you supply. Acceptance always rests with the issuing authority, and some authorities restrict digitally altered or AI-generated photographs, so we make no claim of universal compliance. Tell us the country and the document and we'll confirm exactly what we can produce before anything is paid — and check your authority's own rules before you submit.

Your photos are used only to create your shoot. They are never sold, published or shared, and nothing appears in our gallery without your written permission.

Yes. We create tailored collections for teams, creators, brands and special projects. Send us the details through the form and we'll put together a custom quote.