Outdoor sittings
Portrait sittings throughout Greenwich, Blackheath, Deptford and Charlton, along the park avenues or inside at an address of your choosing.
Portrait Photographer in Greenwich
Portraits in Greenwich for individuals, couples and small groups, outdoors in the borough.
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For Greenwich
A portrait sitting in Greenwich, start to finish
- What the session includes: Guidance on pose and expression throughout, more than one set-up, a private online gallery after the shoot, and natural retouching on each chosen portrait, delivered for screen and for print.
- Where we photograph in Greenwich: Your home or garden, or outdoors at Greenwich Park, Greenwich Park Flower Garden and Rose Garden or Greenwich Market and Croom's Hill. We travel from Northwood, about 19 miles away. If you would ever rather come to us, the Northwood studio is an option.
- Booking: Ring or WhatsApp 07956 505383, or leave your details in the form below.
A sitting is slow and mostly talk. We photograph people while they walk, sit down, or look at each other rather than at us, and put a few frames on a screen early so the direction gets settled between us instead of assumed. Children and dogs can be in it; a portrait need not mean one person by themselves.
Edited files land twice, at printing scale and again at screen scale, in colour, with monochrome alternatives on any frame that wants them. Retouching reaches skin and stray hair, then halts; faces keep their own shape.
For the full range of portrait photoshoots near Greenwich, with what is included and a gallery of recent work, see the main portrait page.
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Really pleased with my photos. Kaushik is very professional and took lots of picture for us to choose from. Our shoot was comfortable and not too long. I would highly recommend him.
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 :)
Highly recommend!!! I came from Qatar and found this famous Photographer Kaushik Bathia who took my photographs! Absolutely incredible. He touched up on blemishes and really made the photo look so beautiful!
What we offer
Portrait photography in Greenwich
Planned around the light
Booked inside the two hours before sunset and worked uphill, so light lasts right to the end.
Edited files delivered
Print and screen files together, monochrome alternatives on frames that want them, delivered as one edited set.
Local and experienced
A portrait photographer covering Greenwich
We plan the route and timings beforehand, leaving room for the unplanned moments that often make the best frames. Actors get different direction from anyone else. Rather than a smile, you are handed a thought to hold, because casting reads the eyes long before the mouth.
Solo, couple and group portraits can be combined in one session or spread over a few setups. Framed prints, canvases and hand-finished albums mean your portraits need not live only on a screen.
Recent work
Recent portraits and personal branding
Listed streets and park avenues for a Greenwich portrait
Choosing between the Grade II listed houses of Croom's Hill and the tree avenues of Greenwich Park would come first, since old brick and foliage light a face very differently. Croom's Hill, Greenwich Market and the Royal Parks permit rules are covered below, each summarised from a linked source. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Cutty Sark Gardens and Greenwich Pier. Cutty Sark Gardens, on the Thames Path in the centre of Greenwich, is dominated by the tea clipper Cutty Sark and includes Greenwich Pier, where riverboats leave for Westminster and the Tower of London. 1
- Blackheath. The part of Blackheath north of the A2, managed by the Royal Borough of Greenwich, is a large, fairly level expanse of grassland with a pond known as both the Long Pond and the Folly Pond, and spectacular views across London from The Point off Point Hill. 2
- Royal Parks photography permit. Wedding, civil partnership, family portrait and other lifestyle photography in the Royal Parks, including Greenwich Park, needs a wedding and lifestyle photography permit, each issued for up to ten people for one hour. 3
- Old Royal Naval College and the Painted Hall. The Old Royal Naval College was built between 1696 and 1712 to Christopher Wren's design as the Royal Navy's Greenwich Hospital, and its Painted Hall was painted by Sir James Thornhill between 1707 and 1726. 4
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Portrait Photographer in Greenwich, FAQs
Outdoors there is no backdrop as such, only what we walk to: the planted avenues when a dark surround suits a person, the open frontage when a brighter one does. We carry a single light for flat days and use it sparingly. Indoors it is plain cloth, grey or close to black, lit with two heads, for pictures meant to sit nowhere in particular. Say which you are after when booking.
Yes, gladly. A solo sitting, whether along the Greenwich Park avenues, is built entirely around you. Direction is gentle and unhurried, so you look relaxed rather than posed. It might be for a professional profile, a gift, or simply for you; either way the time is well spent.
Yes, and outdoors beats indoors in Greenwich for anything above about six people, since a dozen can stand in one line with nobody stranded behind a shoulder. Sloping ground helps more than you would expect. Agree a meeting spot beforehand, give everybody one instruction about tone rather than garment, and allow an hour. Expect wind on anything facing the water.
Not long; turnaround is kept quick. After the sitting we edit carefully and send a gallery for you to choose favourites from. Anything you then order, whether prints, frames, canvases or an album, follows soon afterwards.
Either. Getting there from Greenwich means a planned journey, so most people would sooner we came to them, which we happily do. Where the whole point is having Greenwich visible in a portrait, staying put makes better sense.
Serving Greenwich
A portrait photographer near Greenwich
Greenwich is roughly 19 miles from Northwood; for a sitting there, travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book. It sits close to Lewisham, which we cover too. Portraits for Greenwich can be made outdoors in the borough, at your home, or under controlled light in Northwood.
Up the hill from Greenwich Market, whose Grade II listed buildings date from 1827 to 1833, Croom's Hill is lined with houses built from the 17th century onwards, a period street that suits a walking portrait. Greenwich station is served by Southeastern and the DLR, and its 1840 station building by George Smith is one of the oldest in the world. Greenwich Park's highest hill and One Tree Hill both give sweeping views of the London skyline, and portrait photography there needs a Royal Parks wedding and lifestyle photography permit, issued for up to ten people for an hour.
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The same photographer, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Greenwich. Explore the rest: we also cover portrait photography across London, including Waltham Forest, Westminster, Enfield, Southwark and Barnet.
Greenwich Park is laid out in long tree-lined avenues, and which way a sitter turns along one of them does more to a picture than the choice of avenue does. Face across the planting and the canopy breaks the sky into fragments, so light lands on a face in hard patches that shift every time somebody takes a step. Turn instead to face along the walk and the clear strip of sky over the path behaves as one long narrow source, while the same trees now stand as dark walls either side, stopping stray light creeping in from where it is not wanted. That one turn settles more than any choice of lens. Height comes second, and belongs to the schedule rather than the shot list. Ground giving the panoramic view sits well above the water, and elevation buys minutes late on: upper slopes still hold sun once the frontage below has gone flat and blue. A late sitting is therefore ordered bottom to top, never the other way about. Clothing has to survive two backgrounds. Down beside the water the surround is bright, up under the avenues it is dark, and an outfit chosen for one fails the other. Anything at the extremes, chalk white or coal black, only works for half a sitting. A middle tone carrying some colour, rust, slate, plum, indigo, holds its shape against both.
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How it works
Portrait sittings on location in Greenwich
We are based in Northwood, about 19 miles from Greenwich, so a portrait sitting there would normally be outdoors or at your home. Portraits are photographed on location, with lighting brought in as needed.
Every portrait is made by Kaushik Bathia, FBIPP and FMPA, who has worked from Northwood since 2001 and holds five European Kodak Gold Awards.
Beyond Greenwich, see portraits across South London. For every other service, see photography across South London.
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Other popular portrait sessions include a couples photoshoot near Greenwich, graduation photos in gown and cap, a model portfolio photoshoot, and birthday portraits.
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