Go early in old towns
Old Amersham and Beaconsfield Old Town are quietest early in the day, before parked cars fill the frame.
Portrait Photographer in Buckinghamshire
Portraits for individuals, graduates and small business owners, using the brick, flint and beech woods of Buckinghamshire or the Northwood studio.
The short answer
Where can I have a portrait session in Buckinghamshire?
You can have a portrait session at home, at the Northwood studio, or outdoors at a Buckinghamshire landmark. Popular choices include the Market Hall of 1682 in Old Amersham, the Lutyens Memorial Building on East Common in Gerrards Cross, the old streets around Church Street in Chesham and the woods at Captain's Wood or Chesham Bois. Ask for a price by phone or WhatsApp, and the travel from Northwood to your chosen Bucks setting is quoted in writing.
Our usual session area is within about 20 miles of the studio. Further out in Buckinghamshire, sessions are by arrangement, with travel quoted in writing before you book.
My daughter and her fiancé went to Kaushik for their photos, and we had a wonderful experience. He is incredibly friendly, patient, and helpful. He really took his time with them and captured beautiful, professional-quality photos. We highly recommend Kaushik Photography!
I required some portrait shots to be taken. Mr Bhatia, did an amazing job, Very friendly and extremely professional and knowledgeable.I would highly recommend.
I had a photoshoot recently and it was such a great experience. Everyone was lovely and made us comfortable. The pictures looks great as well I am very pleased. I will definitely come back when the opportunity arises again,
Who it's for
Portraits for graduates, professionals and milestones
A portrait session is about one person, or occasionally two, rather than a whole family. People book for a graduation, a milestone birthday, a new business, an author photograph or simply because they have no good picture of themselves. Buckinghamshire has a university in Buckingham and the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, and graduation portraits work just as well in a home town as on campus.
Kaushik directs gently and explains what he is looking for, so you do not need to know how to pose. A session lasts about an hour, with a change of outfit if you want one. Read portrait photography for how sessions work, and compare them with the Buckinghamshire headshots page if you only need a single business image.
Old towns
Brick, flint and timber: Old Amersham, Beaconsfield and Chesham
The county's old town centres give texture without needing a booking. In Old Amersham the red-brick Market Hall, completed in 1682 for Sir William Drake, stands on the High Street. Beaconsfield Old Town grew up around the crossroads of a medieval market granted a charter in 1255, and the Old Rectory at Windsor End is a timber-framed house of 1534 arranged around three sides of a courtyard.
In Chesham, Church Street and Germain Street hold the town's oldest buildings, many from the 1700s, and No. 54 Church Street on the rise called The Nap is thought to be its oldest house. Early morning, before the traffic and the shoppers, gives the cleanest backgrounds. The Chesham portrait page and the Amersham portrait page go into more local detail.
Green settings
Beech woods, a Repton lake and an elm-lined avenue
For softer backgrounds, Captain's Wood on Hivings Hill near Chesham is ancient beech woodland cared for by the Chiltern Society, free to visit all year. Chesham Bois Wood holds a 23-metre whitebeam recorded as the tallest in the country. In Lowndes Park, the Rue de Houilles was once an elm-lined carriageway first planted around 1760 and is now lined with mixed trees including blossom.
Near Chalfont St Peter, the lake at Chalfont Park was formed when Humphry Repton widened the River Misbourne. St Peter's Memorial Garden on Church Lane keeps historic headstones along its boundary and makes a quiet, reflective setting. For people near the Chalfont St Peter portrait page these are all a short drive.
Personal branding
Personal branding portraits for Buckinghamshire businesses
Coaches, consultants, therapists and shop owners need more than a headshot: a set of images for a website, social media and a speaker profile. A branding session mixes close portraits with wider frames of you at work, at a desk, with your products or with clients' permission in your space. We agree a shot list in advance so the session covers every page of your website.
Gerrards Cross has a strong backdrop in its Everyman cinema, opened in 1925 as The Playhouse and the oldest cinema in Buckinghamshire, and St James' Church on Oxford Road has an octagonal dome ringed by four turrets. Shooting outside a building is fine from a public street. See the Gerrards Cross portrait page for more.
Studio and travel
When the Northwood studio is the better choice
Some portraits need a controlled background: a clean white, grey or black for a book jacket, an acting profile or a print for the wall. The studio at 21 Joel Street, Northwood Hills, is about 4 miles from Denham and 6 from Gerrards Cross and the Chalfonts. In winter, when daylight is short, a studio session is often the simplest route.
For outdoor sessions further out, such as Hughenden near High Wycombe or Whiteleaf Hill above Princes Risborough, Kaushik travels from Northwood. Travel is quoted up front and set out in writing before you book, and the session price comes by phone or WhatsApp. The Beaconsfield portrait page covers the Old Town in more detail.
Planning
Planning around Buckinghamshire
Pick one look per setting
Smart clothes suit brick and timber; knitwear and coats suit Captain's Wood or Chesham Bois.
Graduates welcome
Bring the gown and hood if you have hired them, or wear smart clothes for a home-town portrait.
Branding needs a shot list
Agree the website pages first, so every image on the list has a place to go.
Portrait backdrops in Buckinghamshire
These Buckinghamshire landmarks and shoot locations give portraits a sense of place, with the source for each fact.
- Hughenden: Hughenden Manor, home of Benjamin Disraeli from 1848 and owned by the National Trust since 1947, sits in nearly 1,500 acres of parkland and woodland with restored Victorian formal gardens; its basement was the secret 'Hillside' map-making base in the Second World War. 1
- Bisham Woods: Bisham Woods, a Woodland Trust site of about 153 hectares on the hillside between Marlow and Maidenhead with parking pull-ins on Quarry Wood Road, is over 90% ancient woodland. 2
- Whiteleaf Hill Local Nature Reserve: Whiteleaf Hill, above the town, is an 11-hectare Local Nature Reserve in the Chilterns with beech woodland and five scheduled ancient monuments; the Ridgeway National Trail crosses it and it is reached from Peters Lane, which divides it from Brush Hill Local Nature Reserve. 3
- Campbell Park: Campbell Park, the city centre park, has public art, water features, the Grand Union Canal, a cricket pitch, an amphitheatre, wildflower meadows and a belvedere with views across north-east Milton Keynes. 4
- Langley Park Temple Gardens: Langley Park Country Park on Billet Lane, Iver (SL0 0LS), has a rhododendron collection in its Temple Gardens that flowers from April to June, veteran trees some planted by Capability Brown, and the Jubilee Play Garden. 5
Sources, facts checked October 2026
Town by town
Portrait sessions across Buckinghamshire
Portrait sessions can take place in any of these Buckinghamshire towns, shown with the distance from the Northwood studio.
- Denham (4 miles from the studio)
- Gerrards Cross (6 miles from the studio)
- Chalfont St Peter (6 miles from the studio)
- Chalfont St Giles (7 miles from the studio)
- Amersham (10 miles from the studio)
- Beaconsfield (11 miles from the studio)
- Chesham (11 miles from the studio)
- Bourne End (13 miles from the studio)
- High Wycombe (15 miles from the studio)
- Marlow (16 miles from the studio)
- Princes Risborough (20 miles from the studio)
- Aylesbury (23 miles from the studio)
- Milton Keynes (34 miles from the studio)
- Buckingham (37 miles from the studio)
Good to know
Portraits in Buckinghamshire: questions answered
Portrait prices are on request: ring or WhatsApp 07956 505383 with your Bucks town. They depend on the length of the session and where it takes place. Travel from Northwood is shown in your written quote.
Yes. Two or three outfits is common, and we plan the changes around the location. In town centres that may mean changing at home first or using a nearby café's facilities.
Not for a portrait taken from a public street or open space. For private grounds, National Trust sites or Buckinghamshire's country parks, we check the rules before the session.
Yes. Graduation portraits can be taken in a home town, at a park or at the Northwood studio, which is often easier than the crowds on graduation day itself.
We watch the forecast and can move to the studio, switch to a covered spot or rearrange the date. Beech woods are pleasant in light rain, but heavy rain is not worth standing in.
You get an online gallery to choose from soon after the session, then the retouched files. If you need images for a launch or a publication date, tell us when booking.
Every session is photographed by Kaushik Bathia himself, FBIPP and FMPA, holder of five European Kodak Gold Awards, who opened the Northwood studio in 2001.
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Book a portrait session in Buckinghamshire
Tell us what the portraits are for, where you would like them taken and roughly when, and we will suggest a plan.
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