Which Session is for You
You’ve seen friends and family’s newborn pictures, and you’ve got some ideas. You’ve also looked at Pinterest and Instagram. Yes, we realize this was before your baby’s arrival. Actually, you have an idea of what you’d like; if nothing else, you know what you do not.
Let’s start with the basics: You want your baby alone in a cute outfit or swaddled; it can be in a basket, on a blanket, or anything comfy. This is by far the easiest to accomplish. Baby is all wrapped up and cozy, simple, and sweet!
This is fabulous if you want to print out multiple images for friends/family and/or design your own birth announcements, etc. It’s perfect for baby books and sharing socially as well.
This is our Newborn Digital Package. Here are a few to show you some ideas
The full studio session might be for you if you are up for something a bit more advanced.
This takes a lot more time, talent, patience, and effort. Is it worth it? One thousand percent it is. This is a milestone moment; some say these images are more precious and treasured than their wedding images. It’s one of those priceless items you do keep literally a lifetime. It is not exactly the sort of thing you trust to cell phones or newbies, like a wedding; it’s a moment in time when you can’t get it back. You can see the memes of bad-posing newborns, which many have tried; they are quite humorous.
There are some key differences between a full session and the prepaid swaddle package. There is no limit to the number of props or poses; mom/dad and/or siblings can be included. Naked baby, if desired, those sweet toes and tiny hands are showcased, too!
The session fee is for the photographer’s private studio time and talent; it contains no images.
Posing sounds simple; a quick scroll of Instagram will verify just how quickly that can go wrong, haha!!
Truly, the tiny details make a huge difference. There are reasons in every field; there are professionals to help you with tasks. A woman who has just given birth isn’t feeling her most glamorous. Our years of experience posing and lighting her to accentuate those best features with a newborn is what we do best. We hope you’ve seen many of our portraits online, on our website, and at the local hospital, which showcase many fabulous ladies! We can’t forget the dads! Believe me; they get just as involved with wanting no double chins, show my muscles, and make me look good! We love everyone having input, truly enjoying the experience, and the results reflecting who they are. This is an example of one pose of mom/dad kissing baby.
Editing a Little or a Lot
When we edit an entire body of skin, not simply a face,’ you’ve easily tripled or more the time and work involved. If you’ve added another subject, you doubled that again. There truly is not an app that doesn’t affect the entire image. The skin on the bodies and faces of the same person are different. Eyes edit differently than, say, an arm or leg. You wouldn’t edit a baby’s face like the adult’s in the same frame. Each must be done by hand; they are treated individually. If you try a phone app, you’ll see in many cases, it is just too heavy (faces become soft and flat), or even when applied differently, you would never use, say, the same level of concealer over your entire face, it’s then lost all depth. These will be looked at for a lifetime. The details do matter; we work very hard on them. Here’s an example of a baby’s skin tone; note the diaper marks the slight rash (all normal, however, maybe not what you’d like on your wall); all details are still there. We didn’t and wouldn’t over-conceal (wink)
Be sure to click on the images to take a closer look
Printed Portraits or Digital
Pretty much anything, even cell phone pics, looks good on a phone or computer, but the resolution and size do not reflect the image’s quality. The difference is when you print portrait size or larger, where you have them printed is huge.
If you can tell the difference in the quality of a car, a designer purse, a good chef or fast food, a weekend hotel, or a beautiful vacation, then this is no different. When you value the difference in quality, the lighting, the posing, the paper, the color profiles, the editing, the professional lab printing, it all shows, and it all matters. Naturally, these will be with you longer than any of those items.
Like many of you, we see numerous images on Instagram; yes, they are cute and spontaneous. There are some milestones in life where you value the difference in the care and quality of what you want. This was a major difference in our hospital displays. You may be unable to tell the difference between lighting and portraits now; however, some can. We were chosen among hundreds for our displays based on the quality of the image and the professional result.