Session Preparation

Being prepared for your photography session makes an enormous difference to how relaxed you feel on the day — and relaxed clients produce beautiful photographs. The more clearly you understand what to expect, the less mental energy you'll spend worrying on the day, and the more you can simply be present and enjoy the experience.

I send every client a detailed session briefing document when they book. But here are the most important practical points that I find make the biggest difference to how sessions actually go — the things clients wish they'd known, and the things I'd tell you if we were having coffee the week before.

The most important thing you can do before a session is this: let go of the expectation that it needs to be perfect. The best photographs I've ever made have been at sessions where something unexpected happened, where someone laughed at the wrong moment, where a child ran in an unexpected direction. Those imperfect moments are the real ones.