Engagement portraits

Engagement portraits (or couple portraits) are a great opportunity to celebrate the two of you as individuals and as a couple. They can also be a practice for portraits on your wedding day, especially if you haven’t been photographed professionally before. You can book either a studio or a location session and both take between about 30 minutes and two hours, depending on what you would like from your portraits.

To book a portrait session, call me on 020 8469 2371 or email via the contact page to check availability. Once we’ve arranged a time, the session fee is payable to confirm your booking. I’ll send you a portrait information pack and before your session, we’ll talk through who you are as a couple and how we can achieve a set of portraits which reflect that. The pre-shoot consultation can be done on the phone or we can make a studio appointment – whatever would work best for you.

Location portraits

Location portraits can capture you in your special place – where you went on your first date, where he proposed, your Sunday morning addiction to Columbia Road Flower Market or perhaps the home you share together. Feel free to add in as much or as little of your life as you like. Past clients have chosen to do their portraits with a Vespa, outside a favourite coffee shop and with blooming cherry trees.
Liz and Craig, who you can see on the right in black and white, wanted their love of Brighton to shine through their engagement portraits. Their session had been bought for them by Liz’s brother, as well as a credit for them to buy the prints of their choice. On the day of the shoot, Craig said they were very much looking forward to their wedding, also in Brighton, and could imagine themselves growing old together on deck chairs like this couple. We were very lucky in getting such bright sunshine on the day of our shoot, which meant we had strong shadows as graphic elements in this portrait.

Studio portraits

Studio portraits use flattering light and neutral backgrounds to put the emphasis on you and your relationship. You’re welcome to bring changes of clothes – perhaps a casual outfit and a more dressy one? Studio portraits are an especially good option if you would like your shoot to be in the evening because we aren’t dependent on the sun or weather.

The three portraits you can see of Annike and Will on the right hand side are part of a Classic Black shoot ahead of their Kent wedding in June this year. The two of them live and work on the Greenwich/Blackheath borders.

Presentation of your portraits

Many clients like to use one or more images for their Save the Date card, invitations or thank-you cards. You can also have framed or unframed prints (great thank-you presents for the wedding day), a signing board, montage of multiple images and albums.

Helen and Richard, on the right, used this portrait for their invitations. It was taken at the end of a shoot around Islington, where they spend their weekends. We were about to go to Ottolenghi for a coffee as they would usually, when it started to rain. Richard had parked down a side street and this doorway seemed just right as he and Helen walked past it. What you wouldn’t know from simply looking at the portrait is that Richard is an architect, so the fact that they are both framed by architectural features is especially fitting.