When planning your newborn photos, two things always come up:

• Where should we take these photos?
• How old should our baby be for these photos?

And this is my advice on both situations. When it comes to location, you can chose to do your own home, renting a local studio, or outside. I always try to push everyone to do an indoor session, unless your baby is a few months old. We can just control the environment a lot more indoors and don’t have to worry about rain, the cold or any other unpredictable elements with a newborn.

So often, I get parents asking if they should do a studio or their own home. Time after time, as a photographer, I prefer your home. I know shocking! A lot of photographers will prefer studios because they usually guarantee perfect lighting. BUT, I prefer spaces that are more personal to clients, a space that feels special to them. Plus working in your home enables you to have everything you need for baby there.

Studios are gerat if you really don’t feel like youre tied to your space. Or that you just have no desire to clean up and tidy your space for photos.

Okay, and now, when it comes to timing, I tell people to get their newborn photos between 2-10 weeks for lifestyle shoots. If you are looking for super stylized photos where there’s a lot of baby posing – you’ll wan to work with in 2-10 days. But for lifestyle photos, we focus on photos of you with baby and the connection you have so, we get to work with them a little later.

Now the timing is really up to you! Photos a little later, means that baby will be more awake for images and momma will probably be feeling a little more healed after labor. And if you wanted photos of baby really small, sleep, and swaddled then we will do photos really early on.

For Christne and Casey’s photos, they waited a little longer to do his pictures. For his photos he was 8-9 weeks along. At this point he was bigger, more active and alert!

Check out their newborn photos below that we did in their own home!