Family Photographer in Koh Phangan

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.

Not if the session is planned around it. Book the first hour after sunrise or the last before sunset, keep it to about an hour, and bring water, a hat for the walk there and a spare outfit — children end up in the sea whether it's planned or not. The cooler months, roughly mid-October to mid-February, are the most comfortable, though that is also the rainiest stretch on Koh Samui and its neighbours. On the Andaman coast — Phuket, Krabi, Khao Lak, Koh Lanta — the rainy months bring rough seas and red-flag days, when children shouldn't swim.

Each photographer sets their own price for a photoshoot on Koh Phangan: 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.

Like Samui, Phangan is driest from about February to April and wettest from October to December. Here the date matters more than the season: the Full Moon Party takes over Haad Rin's Sunrise Beach every month around the full moon, with thousands of people, full ferries and minimum stays at the nearby hotels. Unless the party is the shoot, avoid the days around it, or stay on the quiet north and west coasts, which have the empty sand and, on the west, the sunsets. There is no airport: boats come from Samui and the mainland, and rough seas from October to December can cancel them.