Wedding photography and film in Portsmouth.
Your photographs and your film come from one in-house team. We cover Portsmouth and the waterfront venues around it, never two strangers competing for the same shot.
Portsmouth is a city that sits in the sea rather than beside it, wrapped by the Solent with the harbour, the Spinnaker Tower and the naval dockyard giving it a skyline you will not find anywhere else we cover. For a photographer that is a gift and a challenge at once. The light comes off the water and the sky is huge, so a portrait on the seafront or a harbour terrace has a depth a walled garden never gives you, but the same bright coastal light needs reading rather than fighting. We are Robinson Martin Green, a two-person studio based at Mudberry Lane near Chichester, and we cover Portsmouth weddings along the coast as one team that shoots both the photographs and the film.
The team is Aaron Robinson on stills and Hayden Martin-Green on film. We work as one unit on the day rather than two suppliers who met for the first time that morning, and on a busy waterfront venue that matters more than it sounds. Somewhere like the Historic Dockyard or the top of the Spinnaker Tower, with tight access and the public around, a photographer and a filmmaker who have not worked together end up in each other’s frames and fighting for the same angle during the vows. We have already agreed who stands where, so neither of us blocks the other and you are not the one trying to keep two strangers apart.
We should be straight about this. Portsmouth is about eighteen miles from our base, half an hour down the A27 and well inside the area we cover, but we have not yet documented a wedding in the city itself. We would rather tell you that plainly than dress up a page with a Portsmouth couple who does not exist. What we can show you is real work an easy drive away, and the same two people will be the ones who turn up for you.
One team for photo and film.
Most couples start out planning to hire a photographer and a separate videographer. The hidden cost of that is coordination, and it lands on you. Two suppliers means two timelines to chase, two sets of questions about when the speeches start, and two people who each want the couple to themselves for portraits. Booking the photographs and the film as one studio removes all of that. There is one timeline, one shot list, one point of contact, and one shared plan for how Aaron and Hayden move through your day.
For a Portsmouth day that usually means a run down from Chichester in the morning, the nerves of an unfamiliar waterfront venue handled by a proper walk-round beforehand, and two of us reading the same light so nothing important rests on one person. On the coast the plan bends around the weather more than it does inland, so we watch the forecast with you and know where the covered space is if the sea turns, whether that is below deck on the Warrior or inside the stone of the Square Tower. We run stills and film side by side without staging anything twice, agree the moments that matter to you specifically, and stay with you from the getting-ready through to the last of the light so the whole day comes back as one set.
Portsmouth and the Solent coast
- The Spinnaker Tower on Gunwharf Quays, 170 metres above the harbour mouth, where the glass decks give you the whole Solent as a backdrop and a quality of light that changes minute by minute for portraits high over the water.
- Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, where Boathouse 4 and the 1860 warship HMS Warrior sit among the working naval heritage, giving photographs a texture of iron, timber and rigging that no modern room can, and covered space when the coast turns wet.
- Southsea Castle, one of Henry VIII’s Tudor forts right on the seafront, with rustic stone interiors and ramparts that frame a portrait against the open sea rather than a flat wall.
- The Square Tower at the Point in Old Portsmouth, built in 1494 and one of the oldest buildings in the city, a bare stone room that steps straight out onto the seafront and the harbour entrance for portraits the moment the ceremony ends.
- The Queens Hotel on Southsea Common, the Edwardian landmark with a glittering ceremony room under a gold ceiling and long light off the Common and the Solent filling the grand rooms for the reception.
A few of the Portsmouth settings we are set up for.
Real venues in and around the city, each with something specific to plan around. We visit any of them ahead of your day so the first time we shoot there is not on the day itself.
The nearest day we can actually show you.
We would rather point you at a real wedding than pad this page with a testimonial from a Portsmouth couple we have never met. The closest documented day is Becky and Lucas, which ran from Horsham through to The Highdown, the same county and the same two people you would be booking. It is not Portsmouth, and we are not going to dress it up as if it were, but it is an honest look at how we work across a full day rather than a set of staged sample shots.
Your timeline and shot list in one place.
Your wedding planned in one place.
From the moment you book, your private Wedding Hub keeps the whole day organised.
- One shared timelineYour running order, agreed with both of us, so everyone knows the timings.
- Messages and documentsEvery plan, form and venue detail in one place instead of spread across your inbox.
- Gallery and film deliveredYour photographs and film are delivered to the same place after the wedding.
Common questions from Portsmouth couples.
Have you photographed at the Spinnaker Tower or the Historic Dockyard before?
Not yet, and we will not pretend otherwise. Our documented weddings are a short drive away rather than in Portsmouth itself. For any venue we have not worked at, we go and visit ahead of the day so we already know the ceremony room, where the light falls off the water and the best spots for portraits before we turn up with you. A glass viewing deck or a historic dockyard is a known quantity to plan around even on a first booking.
The light on the seafront is bright and changes fast. How do you handle it?
Coastal light is the part we plan for, because it is the opposite problem to a dark barn. Bright midday sun off the water and pale stone can blow out a photograph if you shoot straight into it, so we place portraits with the light rather than against it, use the shade the old walls give you, and hold a little time back for the last hour when the sun drops over the Solent and the whole seafront turns gold. Two of us means one can be reading the light while the other stays on you.
You are based near Chichester. Does travel to Portsmouth cost extra?
Portsmouth is about eighteen miles from Mudberry Lane, half an hour down the A27 and well inside the area we cover, so there is no separate travel charge for it. We would tell you upfront if a venue ever fell outside that, rather than adding it quietly later.
More to see before you decide.
We have not shot in Portsmouth yet, so here are the real days we have covered an easy drive away. If you are weighing up nearby areas, the rest is one click away.
Adam & Panha
A full day at Fitzleroi Barn, Pulborough.Becky & Lucas
Horsham through to The Highdown.Jack & Emelia
A bespoke package at Wasing Park.Portsmouth films
Our wedding videography in Portsmouth.Chichester weddings
Photography and film around our home city.Areas we cover
Everywhere across the coast, the Downs and beyond.Send us your date and your venue.
One of us will reply to you personally, usually within 24 hours, or call us on 07928 549702. We will tell you straight away whether we are free.