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Individual, couple and milestone sittings in Pinner Memorial Park, or on a plain studio ground at Northwood.
Portrait Photographer in Pinner
Portrait photography in Pinner, from personal-branding sets to individual and couple sittings, in Pinner Memorial Park or our Northwood studio.
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Studio in Northwood HA6 · free consultation
Pinner and nearby
Natural portraits in Pinner, by the pond or in the studio
- 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.
- Studio or on location: In the natural-light studio in Northwood HA6, or on location within about 20 miles, for example a park or your home.
- Getting to the studio: Pinner is about 2 miles from the studio at 21 Joel St, Northwood HA6 1NU, measured in a straight line; the road distance is longer.
- Booking: Ring or WhatsApp 07956 505383 during opening hours (Monday to Saturday 10:30 to 18:00, Sunday 13:00 to 18:00), or leave your details in the form below.
The ground, the hour and the wet weather fallback are all agreed when you book, so nothing is being decided in a gateway on the day. We look at the first pictures together early, while a change of top or a change of position still costs nothing.
You then receive a private gallery of finished work, colour throughout with monochrome versions of the frames that earn them, retouched by hand and supplied large enough for a wall as well as a phone.
For the full range of portrait photoshoots near Pinner, with the studio, what is included and a gallery of recent work, see the main portrait page.
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My daughter and her fiancé went to Kaushik for their photos, and we had a wonderful experience. He is incredibly friendly, patient, and helpful. He really took his time with them and captured beautiful, professional-quality photos. We highly recommend Kaushik Photography!
Kaushik was a great help and took some great photos for my partner and I. I would highly recommend for all your photography needs.
Kaushik did a great job in taking both formal and informal portrait photos. He is an enthusiastic professional photographer who made me feel at ease. The photographs were excellent and have been greatly admired.
What we offer
Portrait photography in Pinner
Grey days welcome
Daylight shaped with reflectors, with a small flash held in reserve for the days the sky goes flat.
Print and screen sizes
Hand-finished pictures in colour and monochrome, supplied large enough to print for a wall at home.
Why choose us
Portrait sittings planned for Pinner
We direct one small change at a time, since a string of instructions at once leaves a sitter looking stiff. Actor and model portfolios get several looks and lighting styles, so the set shows real range.
Wear makeup a touch heavier than usual, as the camera flattens it, but save any new products for another day. A partner, sibling or small group can join an individual sitting, and mixing solo and paired frames only takes a little extra time.
Recent work
Recent portrait sessions
Pinner parks and old-village settings for portraits
Away from the studio, a Pinner sitting would start by choosing between the water and trees of the parks and the frontage of West House, depending on the light forecast. Each place below, from the parks to West House, is summarised from a published source linked for checking.
- Pinner Memorial Park, a Green Flag Award winner close to the centre of Pinner, has a pond with ducks and geese, an aviary, an ornamental Peace Garden, woodland and a coffee shop, with entrances on Chapel Lane, Marsh Road, West End Avenue and West End Lane. 1
- West House and the Heath Robinson Museum. West House on West End Lane (HA5 1AE), a site with a house for 500 years, was bought by Pinner residents after the Second World War as a war memorial, restored and reopened in 2010, and the Heath Robinson Museum beside it opened in October 2016. 2
- Headstone Manor, in Headstone Manor Park, is a nationally significant scheduled monument with four historic listed buildings and a 14th-century moat, and houses Harrow's museum. 3
- Pinner High Street and Bridge Street. Pinner's High Street is made up mainly of 18th-century buildings, while Bridge Street has a more urban character with many chain stores. 4
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Portrait Photographer in Pinner, FAQs
Two kinds. At Northwood the ground behind you is a plain tone, lit on its own, so it can read light, mid grey or near black without you moving. In Pinner the backdrops are already there: the pond and fountain in Pinner Memorial Park, the mature grounds, the painted High Street frontages. Outdoors we shape daylight with reflectors and only add flash when the sky has gone dead.
Because the plan is settled before you book. In Pinner we would work Pinner Memorial Park outward from the water, taking the pond edge for the light it returns upward, the mature grounds only when the sun is low or the trees are bare, and the High Street in reserve for wind. Northwood is a direct journey on the same line, so weather rarely cancels anything.
Yes. A personal-branding session is shaped around how you want to come across, whether approachable, creative or authoritative. The result is a varied set of images for your website and profiles, lit in the studio or taken against the shopfronts of Pinner High Street.
Soon, because we keep turnaround short. After the sitting we edit the pictures by hand and send a private gallery so you can choose your favourites. Any prints, frames, canvases or albums you order follow soon afterwards.
Either. The studio is The Broadway, 21 Joel St, Northwood HA6, and from Pinner that is a direct Metropolitan line journey with nothing to change onto. If you would sooner stay local, we travel to you, and to Hatch End, North Harrow and Rayners Lane, meeting either at your own front door or at a spot in Pinner Memorial Park agreed in advance.
Serving Pinner
A portrait photographer near Pinner
A sitting at the Northwood studio is only about 1.5 miles from Pinner. It sits close to Eastcote, which we cover too. There is no travel charge for a sitting in Pinner, and we cover portraits across Greater London.
Pinner grew quickly between 1923 and 1939 as Metro-land garden estates such as Pinnerwood were built around its historic core. Pinner station is in fare zone 5 on the Metropolitan line, between North Harrow and Northwood Hills. For relaxed outdoor photographs around Pinner, Pinner Memorial Park is one option, and West House and the Heath Robinson Museum is a well-known local backdrop.
More in Pinner
More photography services in Pinner
The same studio, experience and personal care apply to every service we offer in Pinner. Explore the rest: we also cover portrait photography across Greater London, including South Harrow, Uxbridge, North Harrow, Edgware, Ruislip Manor and Rayners Lane.
Pinner Memorial Park suits an outdoor sitting, and the pond is the reason rather than the twelve acres. Still water is not a river. It holds a mirror of the sky and hands it back as one large panel: small and of little use on a hard blue day, but under cloud the whole sky repeated at ground level. A sitter facing it takes an even wash across the eyes and loses the hard line beneath the jaw. An overcast forecast is no reason to move a sitting here, only a reason to move it to the water. The mature grounds are the opposite problem. Grown trees in leaf throw broken light, which lands on a face as a scatter of bright coins that no later work removes. From late spring the ground beneath the canopy is only reliable once the sun is low enough to come in sideways under the leaves. In winter the same trees are bare, the light arrives whole, and the interior of the park becomes the better half of it. Dress for separation, not colour. Between April and October the park reads as one band of green and brown, so olives and tans sink into it, while a top clearly lighter or darker than the trees keeps its edge. In winter, against bare branches and a pale sky, the risk reverses and unbroken black flattens to an outline. The preserved High Street is the fallback when wind makes the park unworkable: brick and painted frontages, small repeating detail that reads as texture only when the sitter stands well clear of it.
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Dressing for a portrait by the pond in Pinner Memorial Park
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At the studio
Our Northwood studio, close to Pinner
The studio address is 21 Joel St, on The Broadway in Northwood HA6 1NU. Sittings there are by appointment. The studio opens 10:30 to 18:00 from Monday to Saturday and 13:00 to 18:00 on Sunday.
Portrait sittings are with Kaushik Bathia himself, whose Fellowships of the BIPP and the MPA and five European Kodak Gold Awards sit alongside a studio he has run in Northwood since 2001.
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Other popular portrait sessions include a couples photoshoot near Pinner, graduation photos in gown and cap, a model portfolio photoshoot, and birthday portraits.
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