CRTE Studio offers timeless, considered family portrait photography in Los Angeles, by appointment. We keep sessions relaxed and unrushed so you walk away with images that feel like your family — not a stock catalog.
Request a quote. Westlake Village studio, by appointment.
Family Portraits days are run by the same photographer start to finish — the person who lights the set is the person who delivers the retouch.
Appointment-only sessions with a considered wardrobe consult and neutral-palette in-studio styling. Timeless prints — not trend-chasing filters.
Deposits and fixed-price sessions, paid by card. Once it clears, the date is yours.
See studio packagesFill the brief for this shoot — then pick a time on the calendar.
Family sessions work best when nobody is performing. We plan the groupings in advance, keep the shoot short enough that the youngest person is still enjoying it, and let the rest happen.
Outdoor sessions start ninety minutes before sundown so we finish in the warmest light. Studio sessions run any time and ignore the weather entirely.
Kids explore, we shoot nothing serious, and the adults stop checking their posture. This is not wasted time — it is why the later frames look easy.
We work from the full group outward while attention holds, then break into pairs and singles as the youngest ones start to fade.
Last frames are the loose ones — walking, piggybacks, the dog. We confirm the address for the gallery link before anyone leaves.
A ten-frame preview goes out within three days, and the full edited gallery arrives in Pixieset inside ten business days.
Feed the kids beforehand and schedule around the nap, not around your calendar. A session that starts with a rested three-year-old delivers twice as many usable frames as one squeezed in after a long afternoon.
Ninety minutes at golden hour: 68 edited frames covering nine planned groupings, twelve black-and-white conversions and one card layout delivered in nine days.
Eleven people including two toddlers and a dog, seventy-five minutes in studio: 74 finals across fourteen groupings, plus individual portraits of both grandparents.
Sixty minutes in the family's own living room: 52 finals, eighteen close details of hands and feet, and six frames with older siblings at the crib.
Family galleries deliver in eight to ten business days, and a ten-frame preview always goes out within three days so there is something to share while you wait. Sessions booked in November for holiday cards are scheduled against the card printer's deadline, and we work backwards from that date rather than the shoot date. Album design and framed prints are ordered after delivery and add two to three weeks depending on the lab.
The gallery is yours to keep, print, share and reproduce for personal use with no expiry and no per-print fee, and the print release covers any lab you choose. Commercial use — a family business advertisement, for instance — is a separate conversation and is not covered by the personal release. We never publish a session that includes minors without written permission from a parent, and choosing to keep your gallery entirely private changes nothing about what you receive.
Appointment-only family sessions priced by group size, session length and printed products.
From $450
Family Session
An immediate family wanting a relaxed, timeless studio session.
Fixed-price and paid online. Everything else is quoted after a scoping call.
$450
Family Session
Family portrait session with an edited gallery.
$750
Extended Family Session
Group and sub-group coverage for larger families.
Need a custom day, or not ready to pay? .
Your choice — CRTE Studio in Westlake Village, at home, or on-location around LA and the coast. Golden-hour outdoor sessions are the most popular.