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Portrait Photographer in Rayners Lane

Portfolio photography for actors and models from Rayners Lane, with several looks in one sitting under controlled studio lighting.

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Serving Rayners Lane

Portrait sittings around Rayners Lane, outdoors or in the studio

We photograph portraits across Rayners Lane and, on the same footing, in North Harrow, South Harrow and Ruislip Manor. A sitting here, whether for one person, a couple or a family marking something, usually comes down to a single decision rather than a shortlist: the listed station frontage, or the green at Roxbourne Park.

Settling that before the day is what keeps a sitting from turning into a walk around looking for somewhere. Whichever we choose, we work with the sun behind the sitter rather than into it, so nobody is squinting and the light reaching the face is what comes back off the ground in front of them.

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Portrait Photographer in Rayners Lane

What we offer

Portrait photography in Rayners Lane

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Outdoor sittings

Portrait sittings across Rayners Lane, at Roxbourne Park, the listed station frontage, or the Northwood studio.

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Setups in one sitting

Two or three set-ups inside one sitting, so the final choice belongs to you rather than to us.

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Planned around the light

Cloudy days get booked here on purpose; flat light is kinder to most faces than sun.

Local and experienced

An easy start, then two or three set-ups

We open with the least demanding thing available, usually walking and talking, because nobody looks like themselves in the first few frames.

From there we work through two or three set-ups instead of one, so there is a choice at the end and not a single verdict. You get an edited gallery, hand retouched on the frames you pick, sized for print and for a phone. If the weather closes in, we move the booking rather than photograph through it.

Portrait photography near Rayners Lane

Recent work

Portraits from the studio

Art Deco landmarks and parkland for a Rayners Lane portrait

For a portrait outdoors rather than in the Northwood studio, the listed buildings and parks below around Rayners Lane each offer a different light and background. A link to the published source sits with each entry.

  • Roxbourne Park Roxbourne Park near Rayners Lane has a miniature railway, a children's playground, woodland and access to Roxbourne Nature Reserve, with entrances on Canon Lane, Castleton Road, Field End Road and High Worple. Source: Roxbourne Park | London Borough of Harrow
  • Zoroastrian Centre (former Ace Cinema) The Zoroastrian Centre is the former Ace Cinema, a Grade II* listed Art Deco building by F. E. Bromige that opened in 1936, with a stylised elephant's trunk on its entrance canopy; the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe bought it in 2000. Source: Rayners Lane - Wikipedia
  • Dog-free areas in Harrow Harrow's borough-wide order makes it an offence to let a dog enter or stay in an area where a council notice says dogs are not allowed, and a dog judged not under proper control can be required to go on a lead. Source: Boroughwide Order 01.01.2024 | London Borough of Harrow
  • Dog rules in Harrow's parks Harrow's borough-wide Public Spaces Protection Order covers controlling and clearing up after dogs, and walking more than four dogs at a time needs the council's permission. Source: Public Spaces Protection Order | London Borough of Harrow

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Portrait Photographer in Rayners Lane, FAQs

Because the plan is made before we meet. In Rayners Lane we start at Roxbourne Park, which people can reach without driving, and keep the station frontage in reserve for a day when flat light leaves green looking dull. Sittings run at the ends of daylight, when the sun is low enough to light a face from the side instead of from directly overhead, and that one choice does more than any amount of equipment.

Three, in practice. Outdoors in Rayners Lane it is either the green at Roxbourne Park or the station frontage, and both are daylight only, so the booking follows the forecast. Indoors, the Northwood room gives you a plain wall with lights we set ourselves, and that is the one to pick when it is wet, when a group needs to sit down, or when the clothes want a quiet background behind them.

A gallery of edited portraits arrives for you to pick favourites from. You can then order fine prints, framed pieces, canvases or a hand-finished album, or keep to the digital files. The editing stays light, so the result still looks like you.

Prices depend on the session type and what you take away, from digital images alone to prints, frames, canvases and albums. Whether you are booking a personal-branding shoot or graduation portrait in Rayners Lane, just share your ideas and we will send a clear, no-obligation quote.

Yes, but lightly and naturally. Temporary things such as a stray hair or a passing blemish are removed, while your skin, lines and character are left as they are. What we are after is a flattering portrait that is still true to life, never an obviously processed one.

Serving Rayners Lane

A portrait photographer near Rayners Lane

Rayners Lane, in the London Borough of Harrow, is a close neighbour of our Northwood studio and firmly within our core area. It sits close to North Harrow and Harrow, which we cover too. Sittings take place in the studio or on location around Rayners Lane, and travel is not charged for Rayners Lane itself.

Nearby, the former Ace Cinema, now the Zoroastrian Centre, is a Grade II* listed Art Deco building by F. E. Bromige from 1936, with a stylised elephant's trunk on its entrance canopy. Rayners Lane station is on both the Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines, and its 1938 building by Charles Holden and Reginald Uren, Grade II listed in 1994, makes a strong architectural backdrop. For a green setting we would suggest Roxbourne Park, or the larger grounds of Headstone Manor Park in neighbouring North Harrow, with its 14th-century moat and listed buildings.

At the studio

Coming to the studio from Rayners Lane

From Rayners Lane it is a short drive to the studio at The Broadway, 21 Joel St, Northwood HA6 1NU. Portrait sittings need booking ahead, and printing, framing, restoration and scanning happen in house. Portrait sittings are available 10:30 to 18:00 from Monday to Saturday and 13:00 to 18:00 on Sunday.

Call 07956 505383 Get directions

Your portrait is taken by Kaushik Bathia, FBIPP and FMPA, who has worked from the Northwood studio since 2001 and holds five European Kodak Gold Awards.

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