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Karen Pretorius Photography
  • Home
  • Portraiture
    • Family Portraiture
    • Children Portraiture
    • Engagement Sessions
    • Maternity Sessions
    • Matric Dance
    • The journey
  • Weddings
    • What makes Fine Art?
    • Wedding Stories
    • Vaal Triangle Weddings
    • Pretoria Weddings
    • Wedding Portraiture
    • Imagery
    • Videography
  • Contact Us
  • Sun City Weddings
  • Workshops & Courses
  • Prints & Framing
  • Cinematic Family Sessions
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    • Brand & Editorial
    • Corporate Headshots
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    • Hospitality & Lodges
Children assembling a puzzle at a wooden table.
A New Kind of Family Photoshoot

Cinematic Family Sessions

This isn't a stand-and-smile photoshoot. It's a real-life family movie, directed like a film — nobody looks at the camera, nobody poses. I follow your family indoors and outdoors with my camera while you play board games, paint, bake, wrestle on the couch or just be your normal, chaotic selves. The result is a cinemati

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THE EXPERIENCE

Directed Like a Film. Lived Like a Normal Day.

There's no "look here and smile." Your Cinematic Family Session is filmed like a movie about your family, so every image is shot as if you're being watched through a lens rather than posed for one. You'll get on with a normal afternoon, indoors or outdoors, while I move around the room with my camera and capture it exactly as it happens.


Play a board game at the kitchen table, get lost in a painting project, bake something messy, build a fort, or simply let the kids run wild in the garden. There is no posing and no forced smiles, only real laughter, real mess and real connection. The result is a set of cinematic, story-driven images that feel like stills from your family's own film.

The Cinematic Family Session Gallery

Pricing & What's Included

The Session

One session, priced simply

Cinematic Family Session

R 6 500

A 2-3 hour documentary-style session at home or in a location of your choice. We fill the time with real activity, like board games, painting, baking or simply everyday chaos, while it's captured cinematically indoors and outdoors. Includes a full, professionally edited online gallery.


Good to Know

A few things to plan for before your session

Props & Venue Fees

The R6,500 session fee covers my time, direction and editing. Any styling props, hired venues or location entry fees are not included and can be arranged separately if you'd like them.

Where We Shoot

Your home is the perfect set. We can shoot entirely indoors, move outside into the garden or a nearby spot, or split the time between both, whatever suits your family's normal day.

What We Capture

Board games at the table, paint on little hands, flour on the counter, pillow forts, or simply the everyday chaos of family life. Whatever activity feels most "you" becomes the scene for your film.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us at karenpret1@gmail.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.

It's a documentary-style family portrait session directed like a movie. Instead of posing and looking at the camera, your family carries on with a real activity, like a board game, painting, baking or just everyday chaos, indoors or outdoors, while it's captured candidly on camera.


The Cinematic Family Session is R 6 500. This covers a 2-3 hour documentary-style shoot and a fully edited online gallery. Props, styling and any venue or location entry fees are not included and can be arranged separately.


No. This session is directed like a movie, so nobody looks at or performs for the camera. You simply carry on with a real activity, like a game, painting or normal home life, and every image is captured candidly as it happens.


BOOK YOUR SESSION

Ready to Make Your Family's Movie?

Get in touch to lock in your date. Sessions are R 6 500 and available indoors, outdoors, or both, wherever your family feels most like yourselves.

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