Paris photoshoot for visitors
Three or four days in Paris and one morning you are prepared to give up. That is enough, if it is the right morning and we start early.
- From
- €180
The session
One morning, chosen well
Most visitors have exactly one flexible slot in a short trip, and they tend to offer the afternoon because the morning feels precious. It is the wrong way round. The afternoon in Paris belongs to everyone; the hour after sunrise belongs to whoever bothered to get up.
Jet lag from North America does the hard part for you. Couples arriving from the east find it harder and usually book the second morning rather than the first.
Why a route beats a backdrop
Standing in one place for ninety minutes produces one photograph, taken ninety times. We work along a short walking route instead: a bridge, then a street of shopfronts, then a courtyard or a covered passage. Three quite different sets of pictures come out of it, and the walking between them is where people relax.
What we ask of you
Comfortable shoes and the clothes you would actually wear here. Nothing needs to be coordinated, and the single change of outfit some people plan usually costs more time than it earns.
Other sessions in the city
If the Eiffel Tower specifically is what you came for, that has its own page and its own timing. For couples, the couple photoshoot page describes the same session framed around two people, and a proposal is photographed differently again.
Price
From €180 for about 1 h, with the full grid on the pricing page. A deposit of 30% holds the morning.
What holds you back
The questions people hesitate to ask
- We are only here for three days
- That is the usual case and it is not a problem. One morning is a session. What matters is that it is a morning rather than an afternoon, and that it is early in the trip rather than at the end, when everyone is tired and the good clothes are creased.
- Will the pictures be full of tourists?
- Not at seven in the morning. The difference between seven and eleven at any of the places worth photographing is the difference between an empty street and a queue, and no amount of technique closes that gap afterwards.
- We want the Eiffel Tower in the frame
- Then say so and we will build the route to include it — there is a separate page for exactly that. Just know that the tower in shot makes the picture partly about the tower; most people want one or two of those and then something quieter.
- What if it rains?
- We shoot anyway. Wet stone, reflections and grey light are better material in this city than a flat blue sky, and there are covered passages and arcades on most of the routes we use.
- None of us speaks French
- The session runs entirely in English, from the first exchange to the delivery note. Nothing about it requires you to negotiate anything in French.
How it runs
How it works
Your itinerary first
Tell us where you are staying and what is already booked. The session goes into the gap that costs you least, usually the first morning, when the time difference has you awake at six anyway.
A route, not a monument
Two or three places within a fifteen-minute walk. A single famous backdrop gives ninety minutes of the same photograph; a route changes light, colour and mood as it goes.
The session
We give you somewhere to walk to and something to do when you arrive. Nobody is asked to hold a pose, and nobody is asked to look at the lens unless they want to.
Delivery
Sorted, treated, delivered as a private gallery within 5 to 10 business days, reachable from any country.
Full gallery delivered within 5 to 10 business days.
Pricing
What it costs
€180
- Duration
- 1 h
- Delivery
- 5 to 10 business days
- Deposit
- 30%
TODO_TVA
Included
- A short exchange to fix the hour and build a route around where you are staying
- Ninety minutes walking two or three linked locations
- Selection and treatment of every frame kept
- Private gallery in full resolution, downloadable from home
Options
Questions
Frequently asked
What time should we start?
Sunrise, or within the hour after it. In June that is uncomfortably early and it is still the right answer; in November it is a civilised half past eight. We will give you the exact time for your dates.
Where do we meet?
At a named street corner or café near the start of the route, chosen so you can walk or take one métro line from where you are staying. We send the point as a map link and a written instruction.
Can we include our children?
Yes, though an hour is usually the sensible length with young children rather than ninety minutes, and the route gets shorter. The family page describes how those sessions run.
Tell us about the day
Describe what you want to keep from it. You get back a written proposal with a figure in it, not a catalogue.