Couples and pairs
Individual and couple sittings photographed on the open grassland and beneath the old trees of Richmond Park.
Portrait Photographer in Richmond upon Thames
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Portraits in Northwood HA6 or against Richmond's riverside views · free consultation
Richmond upon Thames and nearby
Personal-branding portraits in Richmond upon Thames
- 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 Richmond upon Thames: Your home or garden, or outdoors at Richmond Park, Pembroke Lodge or Terrace Gardens. We travel from Northwood, about 12 miles away. The Northwood studio is there too, if you ever prefer it.
- How to book: Call 07956 505383, send a WhatsApp message to the same number, or use the enquiry form on this page.
We meet at a park gate you name, walk a short distance instead of a hike, and stay in one spot long enough to get it right before moving on. Frames come up on the camera back during the sitting, so you know while we are still there what is already in hand.
Afterwards a private gallery arrives with the finished pictures, supplied at a size for screens and a size that prints, with mono versions wherever a frame carries them.
For the full range of portrait photoshoots near Richmond upon Thames, with what is included and a gallery of recent work, see the main portrait page.
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I required some portrait shots to be taken. Mr Bhatia, did an amazing job, Very friendly and extremely professional and knowledgeable.I would highly recommend.
An amazing experience from start to finish. The photographer was professional, friendly, and made us feel completely at ease. The photos perfectly captured genuine moments between us and turned out even better than we expected. Highly recommend for couples looking for high-quality photography.
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 Richmond upon Thames
About an hour
Winter sittings while the grass is short and pale; summer sittings kept to the first and last hours.
Wet-weather alternative
Northwood available whenever weather rules the park out, and the finished gallery is identical either way.
Local and experienced
How your portraits are finished
Retouching stays light: stray distractions go, while skin, lines and character stay as they are.
You then receive a private gallery of edited frames to choose from. If you wear glasses, bring your everyday pair; we deal with reflections by moving the light, not by asking you to tilt them.
Recent work
A gallery of recent portraits
Richmond landmarks and light for a portrait
Outside the studio, a Richmond portrait would start from the light: river views and terraces in the soft hours, tree cover in the park when the sun is high. Richmond's gardens, villas and viewpoints below each carry a link to the source of their details. Travel from Northwood is set out in your written quote before you book.
- Terrace Gardens on Richmond Hill (TW10 6RH) is a formal garden overlooking the Thames, with a rose garden, rockery, a historic ice house, a thatched summer house and a modern Aphrodite statue. 1
- Diana Fountain, Bushy Park. Bushy Park, more than 1,000 acres beside Hampton Court Palace and once Henry VIII's deer park, has the Diana Fountain designed by Sir Christopher Wren as its best-known landmark, plus woodland gardens and avenues of ancient trees. 2
- Photography permits in the Royal Parks. Wedding, civil partnership and lifestyle photography such as family portraits in the Royal Parks, including Richmond and Bushy Parks, needs a permit from the park office, each covering up to ten people for one hour. 3
- The view from Richmond Hill is the only view in England protected by an Act of Parliament, the Richmond, Petersham and Ham Open Spaces Act 1902, and was painted by Turner and Reynolds. 4
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Portrait Photographer in Richmond upon Thames, FAQs
Yes, happily. A session around Richmond upon Thames can combine individual portraits with a few couple or group frames, and that slots easily into the time. Tell us beforehand who is coming and we will plan the looks for everyone.
Yes. Groups in Richmond upon Thames are photographed either on the open grass at Richmond Park or under lights at Northwood, and headcount decides which. Past roughly eight people a single row stops working outdoors, so we build the group in tiers with a stand of trees behind. Give us a headcount and rough ages, and we will name a gate to meet at.
Quickly, because editing starts as soon as the sitting ends. Whether your sitting is in Richmond Park or at Northwood, the edited gallery comes to you online to choose from. Prints, frames, canvases and albums follow a little after you order them.
Allow around ninety minutes at Richmond Park. Perhaps forty of those are photography and the rest is walking between the grassland, the trees and the water, since none of the three is in the same place. At Northwood the same work takes under an hour, because the ground never changes and there is no weather to negotiate with along the way.
Shoes that cope with grass matter, because very little of Richmond Park is made-up path once you are through the gates. Pack two tops of different weight: the light drops quickly at the open end of a day and a warmer layer keeps a sitting alive. Avoid strong pattern, and avoid green in summer. Bring glasses if you wear them; reflections are our problem.
Serving Richmond upon Thames
A portrait photographer near Richmond upon Thames
We photograph portrait sessions across London, and we travel to Richmond upon Thames (Greater London) from Northwood, about 12 miles away. It sits close to Kingston upon Thames and Hounslow, which we cover too.
Richmond takes its name from the palace Henry VII rebuilt in 1501, the area having been called Sheen until then, and the remains of Richmond Palace still border Richmond Green. Richmond station, served by the District line, the London Overground and South Western Railway, is a convenient meeting point if you arrive by train. Richmond Park suits a portrait walk that moves from open grassland to tree shade as the light shifts.
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Richmond Park hands a sitting two kinds of ground, and which one you choose decides nearly everything that follows. Wide open grassland has nothing above it, so with the sun high the light drops vertically: hair goes bright, eyes sink into shadow, and turning the sitter fixes nothing because there is nowhere else to stand. The ancient trees look like the remedy and are, though not where people assume. Put someone directly under a broad old crown and you get hard coins of sun sliding across a face against near-black shade, which is harder to use than plain sky. The position that works is the outer rim of the canopy, sitter facing out into the field: branches cut off the sky straight overhead while the grassland ahead stays open and returns a wide, even light. The calendar shifts this ground further than any single day's weather can. Through winter the grass is cropped and bleached and photographs as a pale field, which pushes a dark coat forward and holds its edges. By June the same ground stands tall and heavily green, and it swallows olive, khaki and every forest tone until the sitter reads as a shape with a face above it. Clothing therefore follows the season rather than the wardrobe: warm mid tones once the grass is up, denser and colder colour once it has gone back down. The ponds add one more decision, since standing water carries the sky and puts a bright band behind the shoulders that has to be placed on purpose rather than noticed later.
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On-location photography in Richmond upon Thames
We travel to Richmond upon Thames from Northwood (about 12 miles) rather than asking you to travel to us. For a portrait outdoors we would suggest the view from Richmond Hill, protected by an Act of Parliament and painted by Turner and Reynolds, or the rose garden and thatched summer house in Terrace Gardens.
Each portrait sitting is photographed by Kaushik Bathia, FBIPP and FMPA, who has worked from Northwood since 2001 and holds five European Kodak Gold Awards.
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