How to Photograph Your Own Newborn Session – Photography in Quarantine
Photography in the time of Quarantine
Yup. Although nothing similar to that story, that title sure feels like where we are right now. A crazy worldwide pandemic that has basically stopped the world in its tracks. Everyone staying home and staying safe to help contain the spread of anything further than it has already gone. One thing that can’t stop, though? Babies being born and children growing up. But what CAN’T and ISN’T happening right now for the foreseeable future are the photography sessions capturing those moments. In a series of posts here on the blog, I am going to share with you some tips and tricks to help you photograph your own babies during this time. This post talks a bit about how to Photograph your own newborn sessions! You can see the posts on Fresh 48 Hospital sessions HERE and the post on Baby’s First Year Milestone Sessions HERE
Please realize as with learning anything else, your photos will not look like mine in the end. I have been doing this for 13 years and have different equipment, knowledge, editing programs, etc. HOWEVER, no one is able to get professional photos done at this point so ANY are better than none!! I talk in my class that I teach how important it is to not miss the moments no matter your skill or knowledge level. And these moments? They’re definitely big ones.
Oh newborns. The sweet tiny babies that we have brought home from the hospital. They change so very much in those first few weeks and I don’t want you to miss a thing about them while we are all stuck at home. You’ll find if you read my Fresh 48 post that a lot of this is similar. The newborn session is a bit more involved but some of the basic tenets are the same.
