Outdoor sittings
Outdoor sittings across Hemel Hempstead planned around the skyline, not the app sunset time, with Northwood held in reserve.
Portrait Photographer in Hemel Hempstead
Portraits for graduations and milestones around Hemel Hempstead, professionally lit and available as prints, frames and albums.
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Serving Hemel Hempstead
Graduation, milestone and personal portraits in Hemel Hempstead
- Included in the session: 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 Hemel Hempstead: Your home or garden, or outdoors at Gadebridge Park, The Water Gardens or Box Moor Trust estate. We travel from Northwood, about 11 miles away. The Northwood studio is there too, if you ever prefer it.
- How to book: Use the form at the end of this page, or call or WhatsApp 07956 505383, and we will arrange a date and place in Hemel Hempstead.
We cover Hemel Hempstead and the villages around it, Boxmoor, Bovingdon and Redbourn included, and a sitting runs either outdoors somewhere you already have in mind or under controlled light at our Northwood room. A portrait is often tied to a date: a birthday with a nought on the end, a graduation, a set of pictures somebody has been asked for.
We plan two or three spots within a short walk of one another rather than a single one, so light that is doing nothing on open ground can be abandoned instead of waited out. Worth agreeing beforehand, not settled in a car park.
See recent work and how a sitting runs, from booking to prints, on our portrait sessions near Hemel Hempstead page.
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What we offer
Portrait photography in Hemel Hempstead
An unhurried session
About an hour of unhurried work, shown to you as it happens, so nothing arrives as a surprise later.
Edited files delivered
Edited files in colour and mono, sized for a phone screen and for a frame on the wall.
Portraits planned around the light
How a portrait sitting unfolds
Allow about an hour for the sitting. We begin with the straightforward frames, a level look at the camera with the weight settled, and leave the more ambitious ones until later, because people loosen ten minutes in and not before.
You see the frames as they are taken and can rule a look out while there is still time to change it. What comes back is an edited set in colour, with mono versions where a frame suits it, at a size that prints properly. We keep the accidental shots from between set-ups too, since those are the ones chosen.
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Hemel Hempstead landmarks and open spaces for portraits
Light matters most for a location portrait, so we would plan a Hemel Hempstead sitting for early morning or the hour before sunset and pick a backdrop that is easy to reach. Here are a few places in and around Hemel Hempstead, described from published sources. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Roughdown Common, a Box Moor Trust site, is an SSSI for its chalk grassland and has the county's only regenerating juniper colony. 1
- Shothanger Common is more than 30 acres of Box Moor Trust chalk grassland where cowslips and orchids flower in spring and summer. 2
- Blackbirds Moor has hosted organised cricket since 1857 and has an avenue of horse chestnuts planted for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. 3
- Westbrook Hay is 165 acres of Box Moor Trust grassland, woodland and pasture between Bourne End and Bovingdon. 4
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Portrait Photographer in Hemel Hempstead, FAQs
Because the plan for Hemel Hempstead is a specific one. We would meet at a Gadebridge Park gate, take the open riverside fields first while the light is still high enough to be useful, and finish in the shelter of the walled garden if the wind has got up. St Mary's Church is an easier meeting point if the park is unfamiliar. Bring a second top; two looks in one sitting costs ninety seconds.
Yes, happily. A session around Hemel Hempstead can combine individual portraits with a few couple or group frames, and that slots easily into the time. Let us know in advance who is joining, and we will plan lighting and looks that suit everyone.
Either. Outdoors suits anyone who wants their own surroundings in the picture.
Yes. Tell us the date the pictures are needed by when you enquire, because a winter deadline narrows what time of day we can offer outdoors and a summer one does not.
Absolutely, and we encourage it. A second or third outfit adds variety, and the hour allows for changes. Send us your options beforehand and we will suggest which colours and styles suit the light.
Serving Hemel Hempstead
A portrait photographer near Hemel Hempstead
It sits close to Kings Langley and Abbots Langley, which we cover too. Portraits are taken on location around Hemel Hempstead, and travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
Boxmoor, home to Hemel Hempstead station on the West Coast Main Line, also has Station Moor, where a horse chestnut avenue planted in 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII is a setting we would suggest for an outdoor portrait. Sessions on location near Hemel Hempstead can use Gadebridge Park.
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How it works
How we work in Hemel Hempstead
For Hemel Hempstead, about 11 miles from Northwood, we work on location. For a portrait that could mean Gadebridge Park, the Water Gardens beside the town centre or your own home, with lighting brought along as needed.
Your portrait is taken by Kaushik Bathia, who has worked from Northwood since 2001 and is FBIPP and FMPA, with five European Kodak Gold Awards.
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Portrait sessions for Hemel Hempstead come in many forms: couples and engagement photoshoots, graduation portraits near Hemel Hempstead, model and actor portfolios, birthday photoshoots and Christmas portraits.
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