There are a thousand ways to photograph the Eiffel Tower. You can stand in front of it, you can photograph it from across the Seine. You can find a little Parisian street where it suddenly appears between two buildings, almost as if you've stumbled upon a secret.
But when I'm photographing a couple, I'm not interested in simply collecting beautiful views of the Iron Lady. I want the photos to tell a story unfolding around Paris, rather than seven versions of the same photograph.
And I want it to have a rhythm. A little grandeur. A little movement. A quiet moment. A laugh. A wide cinematic frame. Something intimate.
So, when couples ask me where we should go for their Eiffel Tower photoshoot, this is one of my favorite itineraries. It's a route I've built around the way I like to photograph people: naturally, with movement, with room to breathe, and with enough variety that every photograph feels like a different chapter.
1. Starting with the grand entrance: Trocadéro
We begin at Trocadéro. There is a reason this view is famous. You walk up, turn around, and suddenly there she is - the Eiffel Tower stretching out in front of you, perfectly framed across the Seine. It's hard not to stop for a second in awe.
For me, Trocadéro is at its most beautiful around sunrise, when the light is soft, the sky is pink, and Paris starts to glow. The wide view gives us that unmistakable, cinematic Eiffel Tower photograph - the one you'll look at years from now and immediately know where you were.
But I don't want you standing still. You'll walk. You'll talk. You'll run. You'll hold hands. We'll move around the space and let the light change around us.
The tower can have its grand moment, but you are still the reason we're here.
And once we've had our iconic Paris moment, we leave the postcard behind and start looking for something a little more unexpected.
2. Let the city move around you: Statue équestre du maréchal Foch
From Trocadéro, we move towards the statue équestre du maréchal Foch. This is where I like to introduce a little movement into the story. Rather than freezing everything around you, I let the city keep moving.
The Eiffel Tower rises dramatically in the distance. And you two remain the calm centre of the frame, while the traffic moves through the background, creating layers and a sense of motion.
There's something I love about this contrast: Paris is rushing around you, while you have nowhere else to be. It gives the photographs a more editorial, cinematic feeling. And it reminds that a beautiful photograph doesn't always require everything around you to be perfectly still. Sometimes the movement is what makes the image unique.
3. A quieter kind of romance: Rue de Camoëns
Then we'll head to one of my favorite corners near the Eiffel Tower: Rue de Camoëns, where suddenly, everything becomes quieter. The scale changes. Instead of the enormous openness of Trocadéro, we have elegant Parisian architecture, a beautiful little staircase, and the Eiffel Tower appearing in the distance among Parisian buildings.
It's intimate. Romantic. A little bit secret.
This is where I love slowing things down. A hand around a waist. A forehead resting against a shoulder. A kiss that doesn't need an audience.
The architecture naturally frames the two of you, creating photographs that feel less like "We are at the Eiffel Tower!" and more like "This is what it felt like to be in Paris together." The Eiffel Tower is still there. But it isn't shouting for attention.
4. You stay still. Paris keeps moving: Avenue de New York
Next, we make our way towards Avenue de New York, along the Seine. And this is where we play with movement again.
I will ask you to stand still together while bicycles move through the frame. You might be looking at each other, holding hands, or simply enjoying a quiet moment. Around you, Paris continues. Cyclists pass. People walk. The Seine moves beside you. And you stay right there in the middle of it all.
I love this kind of photograph because it feels like a tiny piece of a film.
It creates a beautiful sense of stillness: the feeling that, for one little moment, the rest of the world disappeared and you only existed for each other.
5. The Eiffel Tower: Crossing the street under the Iron Lady
Eventually, we get closer to the Eiffel Tower itself. And this is where I often ask couples to do something incredibly simple: cross the street. That's it. No complicated posing. No looking at the camera.
Just walk together. Hold hands. Talk. Look at each other. Look ahead.
There is something wonderfully cinematic about walking underneath the Eiffel Tower. The scale of it changes. You suddenly realize just how enormous the monument is, and how small you are in comparison.
And yet, within that enormous Parisian landscape, the photograph is still about the two of you.
6. Paris in between the landmarks: Avenue de la Bourdonnais
From there, we find our way towards the corner of Avenue de la Bourdonnais. I love this part of the itinerary because it gives us something different again. The Eiffel Tower is still nearby, but it's framed in yet another way.
This corner lends itself to a whole new image composition, where Parisian architecture becomes part of the story, and photographs feel a little more like a Parisian day captured naturally.
Walking. Turning a corner. Looking back. A spontaneous laugh. A moment where you're completely unaware of the camera.
Not every photograph needs to scream Eiffel Tower. Sometimes the best photograph from an Eiffel Tower session is the one where the tower is modestly present in the background and everything else feels like real life.
7. A Soft Ending: Champ de Mars
And finally, we make our way to Champ de Mars. After all the movement, architecture, traffic and city energy, this is where I like the story to slow down. The area gives us a softer setting, with greenery framing the Eiffel Tower and creating a more relaxed atmosphere.
This is where you can simply wander. Maybe walk side by side. Run hand in hand. Maybe you'll stop underneath the trees. Maybe you'll dance for a few seconds. Maybe you'll have one of those completely unplanned moments that ends up being your favorite photograph.
By this point, you've usually forgotten about the camera anyway. And that's exactly what I aim for
The session has started with the grand Parisian postcard. We've moved through movement, architecture, traffic and quiet streets.
And now we're simply two people walking through Paris together.
The perfect ending.
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