Newborn Photography: Which Style is Right for You?
I love love love newborn photography. It is such an honor to meet these tiny people when they are so fresh and squishy and to be invited to crash your new baby party for a few hours. I want to explain a little bit about the two main types of newborn sessions: so-called “lifestyle” and “posed”.
Fresh 48 Sessions: Meeting Your Baby
A so-called “Fresh 48” shoot happens typically within the first two days (or 48 hours) of life - often while baby and parents are still in the hospital getting to know each other. I love these sessions because it is an opportunity to capture all the little details of a new baby, often before they’ve even fully opened their eyes or dried off their heads.
Newborn photography: because your baby never gets any smaller
I remember when my first daughter - now a kindergartener, tall and rangy as a colt - was born, I felt the weight of human clichés that suddenly became absolute deepest human truth. How you are not possibly “ready” for this new and oh-so-needy lumpish thing to utterly dismantle your world.
Newborn, redux
Just as having my second child recently compelled me to revisit my maternity photos, I wanted to look again at my newborn photography because the babies are one of my favorite subjects to photograph.
When new parents ask me why they need newborn photography, this is what I tell them: how these sleepy days will not stay in your memory, how the curl of a tiny leg that was just recently still inside your body will soon unfold, and how your baby will grow into their features and never look like they do now again.
Newly made and freshly born
When the tiny ones have a hold on you, these photos help recall the hazy ease of the earliest days.