We photograph you. You do not need to know anything about photography.
- 1h – 7–8h
- Up to 6 people
- 30–40 professionally edited photos
Capture Your Crete is an outdoor photography experience, not a studio session. A professional photographer meets you at your hotel or at a location you choose, walks the island with you for anywhere between one hour and a full day, and photographs you in it: portraits, couples, families and lifestyle images against Cretan beaches, mountains, villages and olive groves. Four packages run from EUR 160 for a one-hour, single-location session with 30 to 40 edited photographs, to EUR 650 for a seven to eight hour day across three or four locations with a private vehicle, a lunch stop, a sunset session and more than 200 edited photographs. Every package is delivered as a private online gallery of professionally selected, colour-graded and retouched images.
- A professional photographer for one hour, half a day or a full day — you pick
- Real Cretan locations: coastline, mountains, villages, gorges, olive groves and viewpoints
- Natural portraits, couple, family and lifestyle images — nobody has to pose on command
- Golden Hour and sunset sessions planned around the light, not around the timetable
- 30–40 to 200+ professionally edited photographs, depending on the package
- Delivered as a private online gallery with full-resolution downloads
Most people come home from Crete with a phone full of pictures and not one photograph of themselves. This experience exists to fix that. You keep exploring the island exactly as you planned; a photographer comes with you and does the looking.
It is deliberately not a studio shoot. There is no backdrop, no rented set and no lighting rig. We take you to real places — a stretch of coastline at the hour the sea goes clear, a village lane with the light coming down it sideways, an olive grove, a viewpoint above a gorge — and we photograph you being there. Nothing is staged that does not need to be.
You choose the length and we choose the hour. Crete's light is at its best early and late, so a two-hour session at six in the evening will always beat four hours at midday. If you have a fixed window, we work inside it and pick the locations that suit it; if you are flexible, we plan around Golden Hour and the pictures show it.
What comes back is a curated set, not a memory card. Every image in your gallery has been chosen, colour-graded and retouched. That is the whole point of the counts we publish: 30 to 40 photographs you will actually use are worth more than a thousand you never open.
Choose your session
Every package is a real shoot with a real photographer, delivered as a private online gallery.
Essential
One hour, one location, one very good gallery.
1hUp to 4 people1 location30–40 professionally edited photos- Professional colour correction
- Basic portrait retouching
- Direction from your photographer throughout
- Private online gallery with full-resolution downloads
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Explorer
Two hours and a second location, so the set has range.
2hUp to 4 people1–2 locations50–60 professionally edited photosGolden Hour session when the light allows- Professional colour grading
- Portrait retouching
- Posing and natural-movement guidance, so nobody has to act natural
- Private online gallery with full-resolution downloads
Crete Story
Half a day, three landscapes, one story that hangs together.
4hUp to 6 people2–3 locations80–100 professionally edited photosPrivate transport between locationsGolden Hour session when the light allows- Location scouting before the day, so nothing is improvised
- Nature, village and coast combined in a single session
- Private online gallery with full-resolution downloads
Full Day
Sunrise light to sunset light, with the island in between.
7–8hUp to 6 people3–4 locations200+ professionally edited photosPrivate transport between locationsGolden Hour session when the light allows- Several distinct landscapes in one day — coast, village and mountain
- A local lunch stop, chosen for the view as much as for the food
- A sunset session to close the day
- Private online gallery with full-resolution downloads
Quality, not quantity
The counts above are photographs we have selected, colour-graded and retouched — not everything the shutter caught. A smaller set of images you will actually use beats a folder of a thousand you never open.
Something else in mind?
Three hours, a proposal, a family reunion, a second photographer, a location that is not on this list — tell us the shape of the day and we will price it.
Ask for a custom sessionPrices are per session and cover your whole party up to the package limit, not per person.
On us
- A professional photographer for the full booked session
- Location planning around the light, the season and your party
- Direction and posing guidance throughout the shoot
- Professional editing of every delivered image
- A private online gallery with full-resolution downloads
- Personal-use rights to every photograph we deliver
You cover
- Your travel to the meeting point on the one and two hour sessions
- Prints, albums and framing
- Entrance fees where a location charges one
- Hair, make-up and styling
- Commercial or advertising usage rights
Good to know
Is this a studio photoshoot?+
No. There is no studio, no backdrop and no rented set. It is an outdoor experience: we take you to locations across Crete and photograph you in them, using daylight. If you specifically want a studio portrait, we are not the right people.
How many photos do we get, and when?+
Essential delivers 30 to 40 professionally edited photographs, Explorer 50 to 60, Crete Story 80 to 100, and Full Day more than 200. Those are selected, colour-graded and retouched images rather than every frame taken. Galleries are delivered online, normally within ten to fourteen days.
What if we have never been photographed before?+
That describes most guests. The photographer directs the whole session — where to stand, where to look, what to do with your hands — and the images that work best are almost always the ones taken while people are walking, talking or laughing rather than holding a pose.
Can we choose the locations?+
Yes. Tell us the landscapes you want — coast, village, mountains, the Old Town, a gorge, olive groves — and we build the session around them and around the hour that suits them. On the Crete Story and Full Day packages we scout the route before the day.
What happens if the weather turns?+
Cretan weather rarely cancels a shoot; overcast light is excellent for portraits. If conditions genuinely make photography impossible, we move the session to another day within your stay, or refund it in full.
Can a photographer join a tour we have already booked?+
On selected day tours, yes — the photographer travels with the group and shoots while the day runs as normal. Ask when you book the tour, or send us the booking reference and we will confirm whether that tour supports it.
