Full portfolio day: what the £650 session includes
The full portfolio day is four hours with room to be ambitious. Six looks, agency digitals included, and enough time to build work with a distinct editorial edge alongside the clean, agency-ready images.
This is the session for people who need a book, not an update.
What you get
4 hours in the studio
Up to 6 looks
Agency digitals included: the clean set, shot the same day
10 fully retouched images, high-resolution and web-ready
From £650, and we are not VAT registered, so no VAT is added
Why digitals in the same session matter
Because a beautiful book and digitals that look like a different person is a problem, not because anyone objects to good photography, but because it makes a client’s job unpredictable.
Shooting both on the same day means the honest set and the persuasive set are visibly the same person. The gap between them reads as your ability rather than the retouching.
What the day looks like
We start with digitals while everything is fresh: front, profiles, full length, smile. Then we work through the looks, building from clean and commercial toward whatever the concept for the day is: stronger lighting, colour, movement, a genuine idea rather than a backdrop.
Four hours sounds long. In practice it is the first session where nobody is watching the clock, which is when the frames people actually use tend to happen.
Who it suits
New faces building a first full book rather than a test.
Models switching direction: commercial to editorial, or the reverse.
Anyone who wants both registers on file in one go rather than across three bookings.
What the price assumes
£650 is the starting price when you provide your own wardrobe and grooming. Styling, hair and make-up are available at additional cost: tell us in advance and we will arrange them. Commercial licensing is quoted separately where a client needs it.
Where
Cell Studios, Unit 0.9, Grosvenor Way, London E5 9NE, in Clapton, East London.
Selected frames from recent portfolio days:
From recent portfolio days
