Proposal Photographer in Koh Lanta

Most sessions run between forty-five minutes and two hours. In Thailand the time of day matters more than the length: the sun rises and sets between roughly six and seven o'clock all year, the soft light lasts only a short while because the sun climbs fast, and by mid-morning heat and hard overhead light take over. An hour that starts at sunrise or ends at sunset usually gives more than two hours at noon. The photographer's packages on their profile say exactly what each length includes.

Choose the coast by the month. The Andaman side — Phuket, Krabi, Phi Phi, Khao Lak, Koh Lanta — is at its best from about November to April; its rainy season runs roughly mid-May to mid-October, wettest in September. The Gulf islands — Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, Koh Tao — work the other way round: wettest from October to December, with November the peak. Agree a spot and a signal with the photographer beforehand; they arrive early, blend in with the other people on the beach and start shooting as you walk into frame.

Each photographer sets their own price for a photoshoot on Koh Lanta: every package on their profile shows an all-inclusive price, and nothing is added at checkout. Packages differ by how long the session runs and how many edited photos you receive, so compare a one-hour beach session against a longer one before you book.

November to April, when the boats run and the long west-coast beaches get their sunsets over a calm sea. Lanta can be reached by road all year, with a car-ferry crossing on the way, while the speedboats from Krabi, Phi Phi and Phuket are cut back from May to October. In that low season the sea is rough, some smaller hotels and the beach bars close, and the beaches are close to empty — lovely if you don't mind showers. Lanta Old Town on the east coast, with its wooden houses on stilts over the water, faces the sunrise and suits a morning session.