Studio or outdoors
Outdoor sittings on Stanmore's high ground, with the Northwood room available when an afternoon turns wet.
Portrait Photographer in Stanmore
Portraits of individuals, couples and groups in Stanmore, outdoors among the woodland and meadow of Stanmore Country Park or indoors at our Northwood studio.
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Serving Stanmore
Capturing portraits in Stanmore
- What is included: A conversation about the style you like before the camera comes out, unhurried direction during the sitting, then a private gallery and natural retouching on the portraits you choose; prints, frames and albums can be ordered afterwards.
- Where it happens: Either the studio on The Broadway in Northwood or a location within about 20 miles, whichever suits the pictures.
- How far: Stanmore is about 5 miles from the studio at 21 Joel St, Northwood HA6 1NU, measured in a straight line; the road distance is longer.
- How to book: Call 07956 505383, send a WhatsApp message to the same number, or use the enquiry form on this page.
Portrait sittings in Stanmore happen either outdoors, on the town's high ground and its quieter green edges, or indoors in the Northwood room. Sittings can be single sitters and couples, plus occasions that only come round once, such as a graduation or a retirement. Canons Park, Wealdstone and Bushey fall inside the same coverage, and nothing about the process changes.
The craft point worth knowing before you choose is that Stanmore hands you two opposite backgrounds: pale and distant from the high ground, dark and close beneath the reserve canopy. Say which appeals and the clothing advice follows from that, rather than the reverse.
See recent work and how a sitting runs, from booking to prints, on our portrait sessions near Stanmore page.
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What we offer
Portrait photography in Stanmore
Couples and pairs
One sitter, a couple or a small group, photographed against real distance rather than a convenient hedge.
Edited files delivered
Hand-retouched frames in a private gallery, delivered at print resolution and again at website dimensions.
Local and experienced
More than 25 years of portrait sittings
A sitting takes roughly an hour, the bulk of that spent shifting from one spot to the next instead of standing in a single place. We work briskly at the start, before anyone has stiffened up, then slow down once the camera has been forgotten about.
A private gallery reaches you a few days later. Frames you choose are retouched by hand, so a spot goes and a stray hair goes while the face itself is left alone. Files arrive twice over: once big enough to frame, once scaled for a website.
Recent work
Faces from our Northwood studio
Stanmore settings for an outdoor portrait
For a portrait outdoors, Stanmore offers ancient woodland and walled gardens, and the places below are a good starting point. Beside each note is a link to where it came from.
- Bentley Priory open space, north of the Uxbridge Road in Stanmore, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest for its meadows, with woodland, two ponds and summer cattle grazing, and a private deer park nearby holds about 24 fallow deer. 1
- Stanmore Hill, at 152 metres (499 ft), is one of the highest points in London. 2
- Bentley Priory is a mansion designed by Sir John Soane in 1775 and extended by him in 1788, and part of it is now a museum and memorial to the RAF, whose Fighter Command controlled the Battle of Britain from here in 1940. 3
- Stanmore Country Park is a 30.7-hectare (76-acre) Local Nature Reserve of woodland and meadow, part of it ancient woodland, laid out on the grounds of the 18th-century Warren House and entered from Dennis Lane and Kerry Avenue. 4
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Good to know
Portrait Photographer in Stanmore, FAQs
Yes, happily. A session in the studio or around Stanmore 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 light and the looks around everyone.
It is at 21 Joel St, Northwood HA6 1NU, and Northwood Hills on the Metropolitan line is the nearest station. For a portrait in Stanmore the room is usually the wet-weather option rather than the default, since we would ordinarily begin outdoors and keep Northwood spare. If you would sooner skip outdoors altogether, say so and the whole sitting happens indoors, where the light is ours to set instead of the sky's.
Two or three tones rather than a pattern, and nothing with a fine repeat, which turns to mush once a picture is small. On Stanmore's high ground the background is pale, so mid and deep tones keep their shape; beneath the reserve canopy it works the other way about. Long sleeves are usually kinder than bare arms, and wear footwear that can take mud.
We do, and love it. Children of any age are welcome, and the youngest set the pace. One child, siblings or cousins together, the mood stays playful so the pictures feel natural.
Certainly. We plan the sitting around how you want to come across, whether warm, creative or authoritative, and choose studio or outdoor settings in Stanmore to match. You leave with a varied set for your website, social profiles and professional presence, all lit to flatter.
Serving Stanmore
A portrait photographer near Stanmore
Stanmore Hill, at 152 metres (499 ft), is one of the highest points in London, and the town around it has woodland, heathland and walled gardens for an outdoor sitting. It sits close to Edgware and Wealdstone, which we cover too. An outdoor portrait sitting in Stanmore costs nothing extra in travel, the town being about 5 miles from Northwood.
Bentley Priory open space, north of the Uxbridge Road, has meadows protected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, along with woodland and two ponds. Stanmore station, the Jubilee line's northern terminus, is on London Road. Sessions on location near Stanmore can use Stanmore Country Park, with Bentley Priory close at hand.
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Portrait guides for Stanmore
Portrait reading from the journal, useful before a sitting in Stanmore or at the studio.
Clothes for a portrait on Stanmore's high ground
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At the studio
Portraits indoors, 5 miles from Stanmore
Coming from Stanmore, the studio at 21 Joel St, Northwood HA6 1NU is a journey of about 5 miles. Portrait sittings need booking ahead, while passport and ID photos, prints, framing, restoration and scanning are also handled at the studio. The studio is open from 10:30 to 18:00, Monday to Saturday, and from 13:00 to 18:00 on a Sunday.
Kaushik Bathia, a Fellow of the BIPP and the MPA and winner of five European Kodak Gold Awards, photographs every portrait sitting himself at the studio he founded in 2001.
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