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Choosing Your Colors – Newborn Photography Victoria BC

When planning our newborn sessions, parents get to choose a few colors they would like to have included in their sessions. Sometimes they know the colors ahead and other times they like to wait to meet the baby and then decide. This way all the photos flow together if hung in a gallery wall and also tend to be the colors they have chosen for a nursery or for their homes in general. Using different textures, headbands, hats, props and wraps, those colors can all flow together and a cohesive gallery can be achieved!!

For this baby girl’s photo session, lavender, cream, beige and white colors were chosen. Here was how I used those colors. With Mom and Dad wanting to use lots of neutrals we were able to create a colorful set of images as well as a monochromatic set. Which one is your favorite?

I would love to hear which colors you would choose for your newborn session! If you are interested in booking baby pictures in Victoria, BC with Amanda, please email amandahaddow@gmail.com to find out more details. 

 

All the best, Amanda

THE BEST TIME TO BOOK YOUR NEWBORN PHOTOS

You are expecting a baby!! This is such an exciting, terrifying, happy, roller coaster of an emotional time! When families inquire about a newborn photo session here in Victoria, B.C., I always tell them to call or email a few months in advance of their baby’s due date. If interested in booking a maternity photo session, the most comfortable time for this is around 34-36weeks.

If your baby has already arrived, congratulations!! We try to have you into the studio to photograph your baby in the first two weeks. I ask families to let me know in the first few days once your baby has arrived and then we book a newborn photography session in our Victoria BC studio. It often takes a few days of emails back and forth to find the right date and by then we are booking into the second week. My favorite (and I feel most optimal) time for your baby to come into the studio for their baby pictures is between 10-14 days. Families often have a bit more of a feeding routine established and parents are already getting to know the diaper changes, car seats etc. Babies are still pretty sleepy which is perfect for their pictures!! They naturally need a lot of time to grow and develop in their sleep and are still really curly and can comfortably go into the newborn photo posing positions. 

For some families you may miss that first couple weeks window. Some little ones arrive weeks early. Others don’t decide on newborn pictures until your baby arrives! If your little one is more than 3 weeks early then we always wait until the baby is at their corrected age for the photoshoot (their due date). If mom and babe have spent extra time in the hospital they may have missed that window also. 

If you are not able to schedule a newborn photoshoot in the first 2 weeks then you can book into the 3rd, 4th or 5th!! Babies will typically start to spend longer periods more awake, they are less curly and they are starting to stretch out and grow larger and stronger. They are less apt to sleep through a full session and may also not manage some of the poses. However, you may have a wakeful session and this can be more of a lifestyle session.  In this case we tend to focus on your baby’s little faces, expressions, stretches, yawns and the connection with your family.

If parents have missed the first few weeks I often encourage them to book a 3 or 4 month session (or a 100 days celebration!). In these sessions we capture baby’s expressions, funny faces and their engagement with the camera and with their parents. This is another ideal time for families, especially those who have missed their traditional newborn photo shoot. It is also the time that most babies start to smile and engage which is such a precious time to capture.

I can’t wait to meet you and your growing family and to capture this amazing time in your life. Look forward to meeting your family and new baby in the studio soon!

Warmly, Amanda

Your Victoria Newborn Baby Photographer xo

SO CUTE – NEWBORN BABY BOY SNUGGLING A BEAR

Each week I get to capture new families in their sweet newborn baby session.

Each of them a tiny little miracle. What a dream!! 

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Don’t you just love baby boys and their sweet little faces? This sweet boy was such a cutie and the first image with him snuggling our baby bear is mine (and his Mom & Dad’s!!) very favorite from his newborn session here in Victoria. Catching a sweet smile is always so special 🙂

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I love that they chose both blues and greens and these deeper colors were just perfect with his hair color! We even got to use our new pompom bonnet which is perfect for winter babies.

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Enjoy this beautiful baby boy’s session share!

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VICTORIA PHOTOGRAPHER – THIS GORGEOUS NEWBORN BABY GIRL

I was so happy to be able to photograph this beautiful baby girl!

Sometimes we have weeks when our pre-bookings for babies shift (as they have arrived late!) and we are able to take an extra booking that hasn’t been made in advance. Thankful that this was one of those weeks and we were able to photograph this sweet baby girl!! She was just so precious and honestly such a good baby. I loved her sweet little smile in the first image here!!

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The pinks and purples are really complimentary to one another in these soft tones but we wanted to do some monochrome set-ups also so mom & dad would have a greater choice in their gallery! I love adding some sweet floral touches too through the headbands and also this lovely little floral romper by a local company. Looking forward to including fresh spring flowers soon!

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Please enjoy her session share here!

THE SWEETEST NEWBORN BABY BOY

Wow!! I can’t believe how quickly the last couple months of 2018 flew by! SO much so, in fact, that I haven’t blogged any newborn baby photo sessions since October! This beautiful baby boy was born in October and we are just getting to his session share now…better late than never?!?!

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He was such a good little baby for the entire session, which meant that we got to be really creative in his set-ups and got lots of prop photos done before moving onto his peek-a-boo pose on the bean bag. 

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I love that big brother joined in at the end of his session also. He was such a proud big brother and had the best expressions cuddling this sweet new guy in his life. 

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I am so proud to be capturing all of his first year moments. All the way from pregnancy pictures to his first year milestone. We have many more fun sessions to come with his First Year Baby Plan!!

Enjoy some highlights of his session share here.

Beautiful testimonial from this newborn’s parents

I’m sure I’ve said this before, but I really do have the sweetest families around!! I so enjoyed this session, capturing the beautiful details and ‘newness’ of this precious baby boy. 

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A few of the kind words I received from mom and dad:

“We were so excited to get the photos back, they are even more amazing than I could have hoped for!

Both (of us) were blown away with the shoot,  your creativity and skills as a baby whisperer, I’ve already recommended you to several of my friends and can’t thank you enough. 

I really can’t express how incredible these photos are!”

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These reactions warm my heart. I love making families happy and creating memories they will have forever. This is why this ‘job’ is so special. Here is a share of some of the images we captured for them. 

 

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