Family Photographer in Hayes

Pick two or three tones that sit together and let everyone choose their own clothes inside that range. Outfits that match exactly photograph worse than people expect. Keep the strongest colour on whoever the picture is really about, usually the eldest. Avoid bright white beside black, since one burns out as the other fills in. Bring a spare top for anyone likely to spill something.

Yes. Book it for the final stretch of the third trimester, late enough for the shape to be unmistakable and early enough that standing about for an hour is no hardship. Most are done indoors at Northwood because the light can be shaped there, though we photograph at home in Hayes if travelling has lost its appeal. Partners and older children come into some frames and stay out of others.

Yes, and at your address in Hayes rather than ours. A newborn session runs on the baby's clock, so allow two or three hours to get perhaps forty minutes of actual photography, with feeds and settling in between. The first fortnight is the easiest window, although later works fine. We set up beside a window with the heating turned up.

Not long at all. After the session we choose and edit the best frames, then send you a private online gallery. Prints, canvases and albums can be chosen from it whenever you are ready, without any pressure.

Yes, and it can be booked from the newborn stage. It covers the newborn session, sitting up and first steps, and ends with a cake smash on the first birthday at the Northwood studio. Seen side by side, the sessions show how quickly that first year goes.