Book a Kids Birthday Photoshoot
at Skógafoss

Each photographer sets their own price for a photoshoot at Skógafoss: every package on their profile shows an all-inclusive price, and nothing is added at checkout. Packages vary by duration and the number of edited photos — from a short session on the riverbed in front of the falls to a longer shoot that adds the clifftop platform and the quiet Kvernufoss gorge next door.

The flat gravel riverbed lets you walk straight up to the 60-metre wall of water for the head-on frame Skógafoss is famous for; on sunny days the spray throws a double rainbow across it. The staircase up the eastern side ends at a platform over the lip of the falls, and ten minutes' walk east, Kvernufoss hides a waterfall you can step behind — usually with nobody there.

Early morning for empty frames — the campervan crowd wakes late, and before eight you often have the riverbed to yourselves. Sunny middays are the rainbow window, when the light hits the spray straight on. In summer, the midnight-sun evenings turn the cliff golden with only a handful of people left; in winter the falls frame beautifully between ice and, on clear nights, aurora.

Yes — a proposal on the riverbed with the full wall of Skógafoss behind you, ideally with a rainbow in the spray, is one of the south coast's signature moments. Your photographer waits among the visitors and shoots long-lens until the question. The closer you stand to the falls the heavier the spray, so agree the exact mark in advance and keep waterproofs on until you're in position.

Every age works; the plan changes. First birthdays are about the parents and the setting — the baby in a snowsuit against a waterfall is a keepsake, and sessions stay short and close to the car. Ages three to seven are the golden years: old enough to be amazed by a geyser, young enough to show it without self-consciousness. Older kids and tweens want to feel like adventurers, so their sessions lean toward exploring — boardwalks, whale boats, the rift valley — with the birthday moment folded in. Tell your photographer the exact age and personality when booking; a five-year-old who loves puddles and a ten-year-old who hates posing get very different, equally good, sessions.

Then nobody asks them to. Our children's photographers don't run posing sessions — they run adventures with a camera present. A shy child gets space and a slow start: the photographer shoots the landscape, chats with the parents, lets the child decide when to get curious about the big lens. Iceland does the rest; it's very hard to stay withdrawn when the ground steams and a geyser is about to go. The birthday shots come from moments, not commands — the crown going on, the first look at the cake, a hand pointing at a whale. If a child truly has a rough moment, we pause, warm up, and come back to it. The gallery never shows the pause.