This is a great age to photograph a baby – even if it is your first professional portraits of the baby like it was for this mom. They are not yet running around – and they are still basically babies at 12 to 14 months. Around about 15 to 16 months, in my experience they graduate to toddlers and it is a whole different ball game. Here are some of my favorites from this session….
Mean Mugging for the Camera - Look out for this Boy on the big screen in the future!
Urban mini sessions are a quick & fun adventure for toddlers
Spring Mini Sessions are $75 for studio or $95 for an urban or beach/park location near the studio – this 30 minute session includes a phone consultation with me to plan out the session, the 30 minute session, and then a 60 minute post-consultation in the Alameda studio to view the images and place your order for prints, books, wall portraits, image boxes etc. Print packages start at $375. Your order includes mini facebook files for all ordered images to bring a little spring to your social network pages!
We also have some great new studio backgrounds, chairs and vintage props in studio that we will be trying out with these sessions. Spring mini sessions are perfect for babies, toddlers, children, families, dogs, teens & adults – but would not be suited for newborns (babies under 3 months).
Interested? Contact the studio via email: info@annamyersphotography.com or call 510-748-8959 (monday through friday 9am to 5pm) The session fee is due in full at sign-up. Only six Spring Mini Sessions are available – weekdays March 1st through March 30th between 9am and 5pm.
And then of course there is the non-prop approach – always a standing favorite of mine – naked newborn on mom or dad’s arms… a timeless classic
In the past few years, more and more women have been seeking professional, sexy, boudoir portraits of themselves. Maybe it is all those Victoria Secret catalogs laying around our houses? So it is not a mystery that there has also been a strong interest in modern pregnancy portraits with a glamorous, boudoir spin. At my East Bay portrait studio, I have been photographing maternity and boudoir portraits for many years – so merging them together is a natural fit for me. What is funny to me is that my boudoir maternity portraits actually involve putting on more clothes than my typical fine art nude pregnancy portrait sessions. Adding bangles, high heels and sometimes lingerie turns the portrait toward the boudoir side of things. Professional hair and make-up are more essential for the glamor boudoir pregnancy portraits at my Bay Area Photography Studio, and you can have it done on your own or we can hire in a hair and make-up stylist to come to the studio for an additional fee. Not sure that you want to go with the boudoir pregnancy portrait style? Why not try some out, as well as some of our modern fine art nude pregnancy portraits or stunning maternity portraits with colorful fabrics – or even some cute jeans with a tube top. All of these can be accomplished in one session in studio – best done between 32 and 36 weeks to ensure plenty of curves in all the right places! Have some additional curves or skin blemishes that you do not want to memorialize from your pregnancy? No Worries – my retouchers are fantastic and between the lighting, posing and magic of retouching the resulting portraits will be stunning.
Ahh the wee ones – so precious, and so good at sleeping soundly while placed in a bucket with a fancy bob on their head! Tiffany was all of thirteen days old when she came to the studio for her debut session. Here she is with one of our newer vintage studio backgrounds along with one of our newborn head accessories…
She shared the stage with her soon-to-be BFF Gizmo – who was the perfect studio dog and was eager to look in the camera at every opportunity. But even Gizmo could not compete with Tiffany’s big newborn grin while in the arms of her parents – I think she looks just like her momma here.
At our Bay Area studio newborn portrait sessions, I like to start with the black background with the portraits to include parents, as well as siblings and pets. These always look great as newborn sepia portraits with the contrast between the skin tones and the dark background. Then after we have photographed the newborn in arms, we put the baby to sleep to get some fine art newborn portraits in buckets, bowls and with flowers. Sometimes we only get to do one set as the newborn will not sleep through multiple, but I find the younger babies can often do more than one. Under 14 days is the key! Here are some of Tiffany’s sleeping shots that were used for her fine art birth announcements…
