Portrait Photographer in Beaconsfield
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Portrait photography in Beaconsfield
- Included in the session: A short talk first about what the pictures are for, guided posing with time for outfit changes, a private online gallery to choose from, and a natural retouch on every portrait you pick, supplied as web and print files.
- Where we photograph in Beaconsfield: Your home or garden, or outdoors at Old Town green, Hodgemoor Woods or Cliveden gardens and woodlands. We travel from Northwood, about 11 miles away. The Northwood studio is there too, if you ever prefer it.
- How to book: Ring or WhatsApp 07956 505383, or leave your details in the form below.
An hour of photography is the usual shape. Anything that needs you to concentrate gets taken inside the first twenty minutes while it is all still interesting, and the looser stretch afterwards is usually where the chosen pictures come from.
Editing is done at full resolution and handed over as a gallery, with one frame cropped square for profile use. If the forecast turns on the morning the date moves, because nobody gains from a set made in horizontal rain.
For the full range of portrait photoshoots near Beaconsfield, with what is included and a gallery of recent work, see the main portrait page.
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How a Beaconsfield portrait session would run
We agree a plan before the day so the hour is well spent, while leaving space for unplanned moments.
Retouching removes blemishes, stray hairs and a shiny forehead. Lines, freckles, scars and the shape of a nose stay exactly where they have always been.
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Old Town streets, the green and woodland shade for a Beaconsfield portrait
For a sitting outside the studio, these Beaconsfield settings offer Georgian frontages, an open green and the soft shade of ancient broadleaf trees. Follow the link on each note to read the original source. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Hodgemoor Woods, managed by Forestry England just off the A355 between Beaconsfield and Amersham, is over 100 hectares of ancient broadleaf woodland designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest. 1
- Old Town green. Buckinghamshire Council notes that its Beaconsfield ceremony rooms sit in the Old Town conservation area with a green across the road for photographs. 2
- Bekonscot Model Village on Warwick Road (HP9 2PL) was established in 1929 and is the oldest original model village in the world, set in 1.5 acres of gardens depicting 1930s rural England and owned by the Roland Callingham Foundation. 3
- Walk Wood, an ancient broad-leaved wood owned by Beaconsfield Town Council that was once part of the grounds of Edmund Burke's house, is reached by paths off Grove Road, Tilsworth Road and Walk Wood Rise. 4
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Portrait Photographer in Beaconsfield, FAQs
Yes, portfolios are a speciality. We plan a range of looks and lighting, from clean commercial frames to moodier character shots, so the portfolio shows range. As the session goes on, we guide you through the expressions and angles casting directors look for.
Usually quite soon, as we keep editing times short. After the sitting we edit the pictures and send a gallery for you to choose from. Anything you order from it, such as prints, frames, canvases or an album, follows soon afterwards.
Yes. Say how many of you there will be when you enquire and a lens wide enough comes along. Two things decide how a group frame turns out: whether anybody needs to be seated, and how far the party has to walk from the car, since a group that arrives strung out takes ten minutes to become a group again. Settling two or three clothing tones between you beats anything attempted later.
Of course. Couple portraits are among our favourite sessions, outdoors. Rather than rigid poses, we give gentle prompts so the connection between you feels natural and real. You can choose digital images, and add prints, frames or an album afterwards.
Yes. A graduation deserves a proper portrait, and we are happy to include the gown and cap. Come on your own or bring the family, and prints, frames and albums are available afterwards so the occasion is properly marked.
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Across the road from the council's ceremony rooms in the Old Town conservation area is a green that the council points to for photographs. It sits close to Gerrards Cross and Amersham, which we cover too.
If you are coming from London, Beaconsfield station on Penn Road is on the Chiltern Main Line from Marylebone, about a mile north of the Old Town. For a woodland portrait we would suggest Hodgemoor Woods, a Forestry England site of ancient broadleaf trees just off the A355.
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The same photographer, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Beaconsfield, not only portraits. We also cover portrait photography across Buckinghamshire, including Amersham, Chalfont St Peter, Chesham, Denham and Gerrards Cross.
Beaconsfield has two districts, and they do not photograph alike. Where a street leaves little room to step back, a picture ends up shot at short working distance with a wider lens than a face really wants. Working along a street instead of across it buys that distance back. The newer streets by the railway are plainer and more uniform, which sounds like a drawback and is not, since a quiet surface behind a person is exactly what close work asks for. A sitting before or after the working day means low sun rather than midday glare is the condition to plan around, and low sun is directional enough that the workable answer is putting it behind the person and metering on the face. Hodgemoor Woods is the alternative. An ancient wood is spaced irregularly rather than planted in rows, so two frames taken a few steps apart genuinely differ behind the subject. The trade is the floor. It is uneven, and a standing full length frame there reads as a stumble unless both feet find the same level, so seated and half length work suits the wood while full length belongs on the town's made ground. Deciding between them before we set off saves an unnecessary walk back to the cars afterwards.
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On-location photography in Beaconsfield
We travel to Beaconsfield from Northwood, about 11 miles away, so we bring the shoot to you. On location, a portrait could be made along the Georgian and Tudor revival frontages of the Old Town or among the trees at Hodgemoor, with portable lighting if the day needs it.
Your photographer is Kaushik Bathia FBIPP FMPA: established 2001, with five European Kodak Gold Awards.
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Portrait sessions for Beaconsfield come in many forms: couples and engagement photoshoots, graduation portraits near Beaconsfield, model and actor portfolios, birthday photoshoots and Christmas portraits.
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