Book a Kids Birthday Photoshoot
in Mykonos

Professional photoshoots in Mykonos start from €279. Packages vary by duration and the number of edited photos — from a session in Little Venice to a longer route through Chora's lanes and up to the windmills.

Little Venice with its balconies hanging over the sea, the Kato Mili windmills above it, Chora's white lanes with red and blue doors under cascades of bougainvillea, the sculpted whitewash of Panagia Paraportiani, and the quieter sandy bays of the north coast like Agios Sostis.

Early morning. Before the shops open and the cruise visitors arrive, Chora's lanes are freshly washed and almost private — the same light as the famous Little Venice sunset, but without the crowd. If you want the sunset anyway, your photographer will tuck you onto a quieter stretch of the waterfront.

The meltemi, the dry summer wind of the Cyclades, is part of the island — and photographers here work with it, not against it. Flowing dresses and hair in motion photograph beautifully, and on stronger days the shoot simply moves into Chora's sheltered lanes or a lee-side beach. It is worth planning hair and outfits with the wind in mind.

Every age works — the format just adapts. First and second birthdays are cake-smash territory: short sessions, morning light, a washable location like a beach, and parents nearby with wipes and a spare outfit. Ages three to six shine in adventure formats, where the shoot is disguised as a game and the photographer is just the funny grown-up with a camera. School-age kids often love being the star of a 'magazine shoot' — give them small missions and they deliver poses you couldn't direct if you tried. From around ten, involve them in planning: kids who chose the location and their outfit cooperate at triple the rate. Whatever the age, schedule around meals and naps, and tell your Photo Greece photographer about your child's current obsessions — a dinosaur fan photographs differently from a mermaid expert.

Then the photographer stops asking for poses — that's the entire trick. Kids-specialist photographers open sessions by not photographing at all: five minutes of showing the camera, letting the child press the shutter, becoming the least threatening adult present. Then the shoot becomes a game with rules the child controls — hide behind the wall and pop out, race me to that boat, show me your monster face. Shyness reads as delicacy in photos when nobody forces eye contact with the lens; some of the most beautiful kids' portraits are of a child absorbed in shell-collecting, unaware of the camera. Parents help most by being relaxed themselves and letting the photographer set the rhythm. The 'won't pose' kid usually refuses to leave when the session ends.