Studio or outdoors
Outdoor portraits on Chorleywood Common and in the estate grounds, planned around the late afternoon light.

Portrait photography for Chorleywood, including graduation portraits, outdoors on the common or under studio lights, with prints, frames and albums to follow.
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Serving Chorleywood
We photograph portraits throughout Chorleywood and out to Heronsgate and Rickmansworth, either outdoors on the common and in the Chorleywood House Estate grounds, or under lights at our Northwood studio. A sitting is often booked for one purpose: a profile picture, a print for the wall, a photograph to mark something that happened.
One decision shapes all of them. We meet late in the afternoon rather than around midday, and we place the sitting so light arrives from the open side of a tree line instead of through it. That does more for a face than any amount of work afterwards.
For the full range of portrait photoshoots near Chorleywood, with the studio, what is included and a gallery of recent work, see the main portrait page.
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We were a little nervous as it was our first photo shoot but Kaushik was very friendly and quickly had our nerves calmed with his charming personality. A great all round experience and we have some fab professional photos that we are very happy with. Highly recommended, 5 Stars :)
Kaushik was a great help and took some great photos for my partner and I. I would highly recommend for all your photography needs.
I did a fabulous photoshoot with Kaushik and thoroughly enjoyed it! I was very nervous, but he made me feel at ease! I will hopefully return for another one at a later date!
What we offer
Outdoor portraits on Chorleywood Common and in the estate grounds, planned around the late afternoon light.
Indoor sittings at the Northwood room when the season or the sky rules out working on grass.
Individual, couple and older teenager portraits, edited by hand and supplied at full size and at web size.
Local and experienced
A sitting is unhurried. We talk and walk, and the camera comes up in between, because a face held still on request stops looking like itself. Frames are shown to you during the session rather than only at the end.
Afterwards you choose from a proof gallery and the chosen frames are edited by hand: colour, contrast, and a light touch on skin. Finished files arrive at full size and at web size, in colour, with monochrome versions where the frame suits it.

Recent work
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Good to know
Mid tones, plain, and nothing in the green family. The common at Chorleywood is green from spring to autumn and brown and grey after that, so olive, khaki and sage sink into both. Deep blue, burgundy, charcoal and cream hold their shape against either. Bring a second layer in a different weight, and shoes you do not mind putting on wet grass, because the best ground is rarely the driest.
You choose your favourites from a gallery of edited portraits. Fine prints, framed pieces, canvases and hand-finished albums can be ordered from it, or you can simply keep the digital files. Retouching is kept light, so you still look like yourself.
Outdoors in Chorleywood the ground itself does the work: the wooded edge of the common for texture, the estate grounds for something more ordered, and daylight shaped by where we stand rather than by equipment. Indoors at Northwood there is a plain backdrop in grey, white or black, with studio lights, which is the right answer when the sky is unhelpful or the picture wants nothing behind the head at all.
Yes. As well as the digital files, fine prints, framed portraits, canvases and hand-finished albums are all made to a high standard. A portrait you can hang or an album you can hold lasts well beyond the screen.
That depends on the kind of sitting and what you want afterwards, whether digital files alone or prints, frames, canvases and albums. Let us know whether it is a personal-branding set, a graduation portrait or something else, and we will send a clear quote.
Serving Chorleywood
Chorleywood, in Three Rivers District, is about 6 miles from our Northwood studio. It sits close to Rickmansworth and Croxley Green, which we cover too. Your portrait can be taken in the studio or outdoors in Chorleywood, and we make no charge for travelling there.
Chorleywood House was built as a Georgian mansion by John Barnes and enlarged by Lady Ela Russell after 1892, and its Sunken Garden, first designed for her, is one outdoor setting we would suggest for a portrait. Between April and June the estate's Victorian iron wisteria circle, with plants over 100 years old, is in flower and makes a strong backdrop for a sitting. Three Rivers District Council also points photographers to the house's summer house and the woodland paths down to the River Chess, and Chorleywood Common, with its heathland and chalk meadow, is another outdoor option.
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At the studio
Our studio at The Broadway, 21 Joel St, Northwood HA6 1NU is around 6 miles from the village, and Chorleywood station has a car park if you would rather take the Metropolitan line. Portrait sittings are booked ahead, and passport and ID photos, prints, frames, restorations and scans are all produced in the building. The studio is open Monday to Saturday from 10:30 to 18:00 and Sunday from 13:00 to 18:00.
Each portrait is taken by Kaushik Bathia personally, a Fellow of the BIPP and the MPA who opened the Northwood studio in 2001 and has five European Kodak Gold Awards to his name.
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Popular sessions
Portrait sessions for Chorleywood come in many forms: couples and engagement photoshoots, graduation portraits near Chorleywood, model and actor portfolios, birthday photoshoots and Christmas portraits.
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