I rarely splurge on things like this but newborn pictures are the exception. Ours are around $500 with full reprinting rights. I have a Nikon DSLR but trying to mimic professional work is not for me. DD's pictures were so beautiful. I'm so glad that we have that moment so well documented.
Some of my favorite photo sessions (that I've seen friends do) are those combined newborn/new parent sessions that you do in the first week or two after the baby is born. I don't know if including the parents is implied in a newborn photo shoot, but I'd absolutely love to do one of those.
It's seems like such a special time for both the parents and the baby, especially when they're first time parents and the session captures that new parent "haze."
I might be overly romanticizing the idea in my head, but those always seem so sweet!
With both of our kids, their newborn photos were some of just the baby, some with mom, some with dad, some with everyone together. One of my favorites from Iris's newborn session is one of DS and her.
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I rarely splurge on things like this but newborn pictures are the exception. Ours are around $500 with full reprinting rights. I have a Nikon DSLR but trying to mimic professional work is not for me. DD's pictures were so beautiful. I'm so glad that we have that moment so well documented.
Who are you using?
I used Natalie Harris/N Harris Photography for DD. She's in Gastonia/Dallas I loved the pictures but I may be using one of the Zumba ladies, Lindsay Thalinger. She was voted Best of Lake Wylie and has a very similar style.
I used Natalie Harris/N Harris Photography for DD. She's in Gastonia/Dallas I loved the pictures but I may be using one of the Zumba ladies, Lindsay Thalinger. She was voted Best of Lake Wylie and has a very similar style.
Her images are so flippin cute! I will keep her in mind for next time since I've already booked! I do love the photographer I booked though as well!
I wanted to add, our newborn session for Iris was especially awesome because our photographer came to our home instead of us having to take a brand new baby somewhere while I was trying to recover from a marathon birth. I was a little concerned about the house being a mess, but all of the pictures were close enough that you didn't see any of the house. And she did them in the nursery so it was still mostly clean anyway.
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honeylemon I absolutely love those! That's exactly what I'm hoping for. At least a couple of our friends with babies had the photographer come to their house, too. I think that's the perfect way to do it, so like you said, you don't have to pack up a newborn (and your recovering self) in that first week or two. Plus you get to see them in their first nursery and crib and all of that.
Photography like that makes me tear up, it's so sweet!
Post by onceinlovewithamy on Feb 5, 2015 15:27:44 GMT -5
My husband's cousin is a photographer, so she takes all our family photos. So zero dollars. Honestly, I know SO MANY photographers, it's really easy for us to get photos for free
Also, I am on Team Non-posed. I don't like those Anne Geddes-like images of babies in knitted diaper covers in baskets, etc. Our photog came to our house and just took natural pictures of the three of us. I was in yoga pants and my husband was in a Phillies T shirt. It was so perfectly us.
None. Newborn photos are sweet (if they're not too ridiculous - H and I have a joke about sleeping in a tin bucket that stems from one of our friends actually doing that with their baby), but I don't think babies look like themselves yet when they are first born. So, we save the pro pics for baby's first birthday, when the kid is actually recognizable as how they will look later.
Because I am totally vain, I waited till Hunter was about 2 months old to have his "newborn" photos taken. He was kind of ugly when he was born.
I was never a fan of them until I got pregnant and now I need them. I booked them a few months ago. We're paying $500 which seems to be about average for this area. I'm thinking we'll do family pics in the fall when the baby looks a little more like himself.
My newborn session is about $500 I think. I didn't even think that it might be on the higher end of things when I booked it. We are going with a family friend who was the videographer for our wedding and now does family photography. I have a DSLR camera, but don't know how to do much more than the automatic setting. I feel like newborn and child photography is a whole different ballgame and I have zero experience with it. So I am definitely willing to pay someone to do it for me this time around!
I love DD's newborn photos - I have them everywhere, my office at work, home, on my phone. Our photographer was seriously talented and I know I'll treasure them forever. That being said her fee including digital files of $400+ is not in the budget this time around. Thankfully a friend of mine that I've become close with in the past year or so also does newborn photography and will do our pictures this time around. She's not as experienced and is still building her portfolio so the fee will be a fraction of what we paid in the past. We haven't talked price but based on what she's charged us for pictures of DD in the past year I'm expecting a maximum price of $200.
We didn't do them for DD, and I have a weird guilt about doing anything for this baby that I didn't for DD so we won't be doing them again. I also cannot afford or justify spending that much money on a handful of pictures, regardless of how priceless they may be.
Edit to add - we did do a family shoot in a studio when DD was about 3 weeks, but it was $20. We'll do that again.
Because we had them done with DD is s big reason I scheduled them! I have the same guilt to try to keep things as "equal" as possible.
I put zero because I first don't have a big enough budget fot it. I am (unless I get the job I have an interview for) facing 3 months no pay. I'll start back teaching in August, but at my school adjunct instructors don't get paid until the end of September in the fall. I also got a new camera for Chrristmas for this purpose, so far I love it and can take acceptable pictures.
I put zero. I'm so lazy when it comes to photos. I've been married 5 months and have yet to get any photos developed. My husband and I have been together going on three years and have lived together more than two, there's not one photo up at our house....well, our ultrasound. It's only in a frame because our SIL bought us a frame and told is that it better be up when she visits.
My nephew was born last year April. I surprised my brother with a professional Nikon camera so he could capture my beautiful (im not biased) nephew at all times. haha. He paid for a professional newborn photoshoot and told me it wasn't worth it. He's taking pictures with the camera and we are dressing her up in outfits I found on Etsy.
ETA: the outfits! My whole life I've been called Pocahontas. So the 2nd outfit is meant to be.
Post by queenrichie on Feb 5, 2015 19:09:10 GMT -5
I think i will just do my own. We have a nice camera that I do photos for my DH's business with and I also do a lot of my own photos anyways. So $0 dollars!
I think grandma will want professional photos of her first grand baby. Which also means grandma will be paying $$$
I paid for a photography session when DD was 18 months old to get some pictures with my family. It was actually a photographer from my other BMB. It was a gift for my parents to have them done. They were great and my mom loved them!
Post by Cornflakegirl on Feb 5, 2015 20:05:10 GMT -5
I was planning on using our wedding photographers. They are a young married couple who recently became parents to two little girls after we got married. They are awesome and they really understood us. I will probably wait until he's about 2 months. I also want some beautiful family photos that I couldn't possibly take myself.
honeylemon and onceinlovewithamy I love the fact that you had them come to your house! I wasn't sure where we would take the pictures and I can't believe I didn't think of the nursery. Those pictures are beautiful! What a great idea!
I'm not sure if this has been said, I didn't read all of the replies... For those of you that are on a strict budget, try finding someone that is just starting to build their portfolio and that is where you may find a great deal. Just do a little digging and check local Mommy Groups for suggestions too.
I LOVE newborn photos. I love them all (for the most part), babies in big bows or flowers on their head, ruffles and pearls, superhero cape, baby in a bucket or a basket, or simple mother/father snuggling with baby, baby in natural light in his/her nursery.
I need to start looking for a beginner in my area for a good deal. While I LOVE newborn pics I cant justify spending so much on photos with a total professional.
I live in a major city, so I'm sure I'll be able to find someone who is reasonable.
Post by purpleroses on Feb 5, 2015 23:08:52 GMT -5
For DS, the wife of a close friend of DH's who is a photographer offered to take newborn photos for us and refused to take any money. I felt kind of horrible, but there were really only a couple of pictures that I liked. True first world problem, I know. There was also a photographer that came around to take pictures of babies at our hospital, and I ended up buying a small package of those even though they were pretty overpriced (but really cute photos).
Not sure what we'll do this time because I feel kind of weird using a different photographer, but am wondering if (if DH's friend ever asked), we could just say we knew she wouldn't accept payment and did not want to lean on her to do a second "gift" photo shoot. They have two young children now (i.e., she's very busy), so I hope we can pull it off without any hard feelings.
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