TNR Protography

UNTAMED LIGHT.
REAL MOMENTS.

West Coast · New Zealand · Award-Winning

★ NZIPP 2025
★ Asia Pacific 2026
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AWARD-WINNING WORK

NZIPP 2025 Landscape
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NZIPP 2025 Nature
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TNR Protography Astrophotography Portrait by TNR Protography

SHARP EYE.
REAL PEOPLE.
GREAT WORK.

Dean French picked up his first camera in 2016 and hasn't put it down since. What started as a hobby turned into a proper obsession, and that obsession became TNR Protography. Photography meets Production. Based in Greymouth on the West Coast, he shoots everything from intimate weddings to full commercial video, drone aerials, portraits and real estate walkthroughs.

No formal training. Just thousands of hours behind the lens, a healthy addiction to getting the shot right, and the kind of punctuality your nan would approve of. He turns up early, blends into the room, and delivers images that actually look like your day. West Coast based and happy to travel.

EVERY STORY
DESERVES A PHOTOGRAPHER

Four passions. One lens. West Coast light like nowhere else on earth.

01
WEDDINGS
From $1,000
Four packages from small ceremonies to full-day celebrations. No cap on photo count. Ever. Dean turns up early, blends into the background, and gives you images that actually look like your day.
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02
REAL ESTATE
From $350
Photography from $350. Full video walkthrough with drone from $850. Properties sold, not just listed. Interior, exterior, aerial and twilight all available.
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03
SMALL BUSINESS PROMO
From $500
A sharp 30 to 40 second brand clip with a photoshoot included. Production, not just pressing record. Built for social, websites and anywhere you need to look the part.
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04
ASTRO & AURORA
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Dark skies, southern lights, and West Coast horizons that most photographers never even reach. Dean also runs New Zealand's number one aurora forecasting app, so he knows exactly when to go.
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Weddings Real Estate Small Business Astrophotography Aurora Drone Aerials Portraits West Coast NZ Videography Weddings Real Estate Small Business Astrophotography Aurora Drone Aerials Portraits West Coast NZ Videography

THE PORTFOLIO

SPOT THE AURORA

The most comprehensive aurora forecasting tool ever built. From a plain-English 2-hour forecast that anyone can understand, right through to a full solar physics dashboard that space weather scientists actually use. Dean built the whole thing himself from Greymouth. Free. No sign-up. No ads.

#1
Aurora App in NZ
40,000+ active users
Spot the Aurora app icon
40,000+ users
NZ built and owned
Free forever
No sign-up needed
No ads ever
Web app, no download
World First
3D Live CME Visualisation Lab
No other aurora app on the planet does this. Watch coronal mass ejections leave the Sun as interactive 3D models, see their trajectory toward Earth and get a realistic arrival estimate. Built entirely by one person on the West Coast of New Zealand. It took a long time and it is genuinely unlike anything else that exists.
From a 2-hour plain-English aurora forecast to full coronal hole tracking, HSS forecasting, substorm indexing, live LASCO imagery, and the world-first 3D CME lab. User-first designed so new chasers and space weather scientists can both find what they need.
TNR Protography

PRODUCTION MEETS PHOTOGRAPHY

West Coast · New Zealand · Can Travel