When my first baby was born (almost 6 years ago!) everyone told me I'd fall in love with
newborn photography, but I didn't. I wanted nothing to do with it to be honest. The idea of having
a studio with props and a lighting setup and an endless supply of hand sanitizer, instead of mountains and fields and adults sounded horrible to me! I was a wedding & family photographer, not a newborn photographer. March of 2016 was a hard month for me, we'd been trying to have another baby and we'd finally gotten pregnant, but at 8 weeks I lost the baby. I've never felt so sad in my entire life. Yet I tried to put on a happy face, my brother and his wife were pregnant, due just a month before I was and it was my brothers first child! By the time she was born, I was in a studio *GASP* my intentions were to use the space to meet with my brides and have a back up location for bad weather. I was so excited when my niece was born and offered to do her newborn photos in the studio. At this point in my career I had done about 7 newborn sessions, none of them were anything to be proud about.
Thankfully my sister in law was super excited about it, and she came to the studio and something in me changed. I still wasn't interested in being a newborn photographer but I also didn't hate the idea as much either. 3 months after she was born, I was pregnant. I was so nervous and trying not to be excited, just in case, but by the time I was about 5 months along, I was already daydreaming up a newborn session. When my sweet baby was born I met up with one of the other girls in my studio and we took some of the most beautiful pictures. That was it, I was sold. I loved everything about it and I knew I needed to take pictures of more babies. I mean, who doesn't want to snuggle babies??
I put out the call asking for a newborn model, and a sweet friend sent her sister my way. I'll be forever grateful! I still thought in the back of my mind, "It wont be the same when it's not MY baby, and I wont want to do it" but that quickly vanished and the session started, and with every newborn baby that comes my way, the more and more its all I want to do!
I put out the call asking for a newborn model, and a sweet friend sent her sister my way. I'll be forever grateful! I still thought in the back of my mind, "It wont be the same when it's not MY baby, and I wont want to do it" but that quickly vanished and the session started, and with every newborn baby that comes my way, the more and more its all I want to do!
This is a picture of my niece, I still had no idea what I was doing!!
Still learning, but getting MUCH better, this is my sweet baby girl, 1 year after my niece.
And here is this sweet boy, that was not only a dream to photograph, but confirmed that this is what I really want to do, and that I actually do love taking pictures of precious little newborn babies, in a studio with props, and backdrops.
