Reflections of My First Newborn Shoot
It has been my intent from 2005 to be a newborn photographer. Anne Geddes was really at her peak then and a huge influencer to me. But I had no resources to purchase much material nor contacts to work with that could sew. There was a lot of trial and error and that felt like it was creating a hole in our family budget.
With no knowledge of what a vision board was, no youtube for creative step by step guidance and Amazon was still known as an online bookstore, the internet was still still a hit or miss place I had no interest in jumping into. Hard to believe how it turned the corner so fast.
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Having somehow found very rudimentary blogs from photographers like Scott Kelby and David Ziser, I learned the more technical stuff before learning the creative secrets. And maybe I learned it in the correct order, like learning music theory, notes and chords instead of memorizing Stairway to Heaven.
Happy with the learning I was getting from the guys, I veered off into the direction of concentrating on the technical aspects of lighting. I started out with very warm duo-set of construction lights. Not only warm but before LED so they got SUPER HOT. (I melted carpet once when they fell over). And flashlights for creating interesting light. A light pole made from a Home Depot paint extender stick. I ended up a strobe photographer before I learned natural light photography.
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In a cold, cement bunker garage with a red curtain nailed to a wood beam and a set of construction lights.
I am not sure exactly when my first newborn photograph was taken but my first dedicated newborn shoot was in 2012 and those images are some I still love to go back and look through.
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Home shoots are usually lifestyle oriented. Studio shoots I do in my home and utilize my new windowed “cabin” for beautiful natural light shoots.
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