About Silverstar

Team work

We work excellently as a team and have created some beautiful family and child portraiture as well as model portfolios and wedding photographs. Many clients have commented on how well we work together and how comfortable they feel in our presence. We like to make the day you spend with us a memorable one and not a chore. To see our extensive portfolio please click on our gallery. We are also members of the SWPP, Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers.


Michelle Ballard

I started taking photos in 2003 as part of my photography A level studies at Stratford Upon Avon College. I completed the course in 2005 with an A, and discovered I had a love for taking photographs and wanted to pursue it as a profession. In September 2005 I started a BA (Hons) Media and Communications degree specialising in photography at Birmingham City University (formally University of Central England) this is where I discovered my signature style and my love for different genres of photography. I finished the course in 2008 with a 2:1 degree.


I love music photography and have worked for Kerrang! Radio and I am in an organisation called Birmingham Live. I have taken photos of bands such as Bullet for My Valentine, Papa Roach, Hot Chip, Manic Street Preachers, Robyn, Sam Sparro, Billy Talent, The Gallows, Jason Mraz, NOFX, Paramore, Fightstar, Funeral for a friend, and many more.


Richard Brake

I started taking photos in 2004 and completed a City and Guilds night course in photography at Stratford Upon Avon College; later that year I completed an A level evening course in photography. I feel I have gained skills here within many genres and had found a love of sport photography, and have taken photographs for a snowboarding group called ‘For boarders by boarders’. Being a BMX rider myself I found myself taking my camera down to the skate parks and taking some amazing shots of my fellow BMX riders and finding out that timing is the key for this!