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!
It is almost graduating time for the Class of 2012, and two best friends came to me to have their “real senior portraits” done. Both named Natalie, they go by “Nat” and “Nay” – and these two girls wanted cool, urban san francisco senior portraits that also included nature scenes and the golden gate bridge. No problem – the San Francisco Presidio has it all! We started out at Baker Beach – then worked our way through armories and woodsy meadows. Nat and Nay did plenty of solo shots but also some bff shots. Double senior sessions are a great way to photograph your high school portraits – you save some $ on your session fee, and having your friend around can be inspiring and adds to the overall experience. We had met a week earlier in my Alameda studio to plan and discuss outfits, accessories & style – so the day of the session we had nothing left to do but have fun and capture these girls on a gorgeous day.
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.
When I go to a client home to photograph a newborn baby, I am always looking for details to incorporate into the session that will help describe the beginning of this babies life. And when I went to photograph baby Z for his natural light newborn portraits in San Francisco, I was delighted to find that the details in this home awaiting this beautiful baby boy were very heartfelt. His crib was originally his mothers when she was a baby, having been purchased by baby Z’s great grandmother in India. It was gorgeous! His sterling silver rattle had also belonged to his mother when she was a baby. The textiles in the home made for a colorful background for the session. Then we used the same blue polka dot sari fabric that we had photographed the mom in our maternity session 6 weeks earlier – but this time with her sleeping newborn son wrapped in it. And if that was not enough, I had two doting grand parents on site to photograph with their newborn grandson. It was a very colorful love fest for my camera :)
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
