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San Francisco Bay Area Baby Portrait Plan : Modern Baby Photography for your Baby's First Year (or so)

Oh Baby do we have a One Year Baby Portrait Plan for you!

As an experienced san francisco bay area maternity and newborn photographer,  I know how important it is to capture the milestones of the first year because babies change so darn fast!  Once a baby is over 12 weeks old (newborns need longer sessions), I recommend doing mini sessions at key ages to capture that time and all that cuteness!  Mini sessions are 30 minutes long and for babies that are not walking they are done at my studio on weekday mornings. For walking babies, I offer a 30 minute mini session at a location near my studio that will give them more room to roam. 

The Oh Baby! Club is the baby plan at the studio that gives you three mini sessions between the ages of 14 weeks and 16 months for $295.  Special discounts on prints, framed products and albums are also available for Oh Baby! Club members. You can get modern fine art photography of your baby at a great price - easy cheesy with 30 minute sessions - who needs the mall? And you can add extra mini sessions to your plan for just $75 per session.  For maternity and newborn clients that purchase special packages, the Oh Baby! Club is included as a bonus item at no cost.

Here are some layouts from Chase's one year album - including chubby naked 6 month old Chase, holiday festive 11 month old Chase and tractor loving 16 month old Chase:

 

Bay Area Fine Art Maternity Photographer - With Golden Child

I have not blogged in a while about maternity sessions - which is odd since I do so many of them. I love photographing pregnant women when they are nice and curvy - around 34 to 35 weeks.  A week before the session we meet to consult about the style of images they are looking. In the session I strive to create different moods using studio lighting.  I encourage women to incorporate fabrics or items that are significant to them into the session - sheer fabrics with some kind of iridescence work best. Sometimes it is a wedding veil, or just some beautiful fabric. Today, Lelma brought in some gorgeous fabrics that she got at a Sari shop and we created some beautiful images of her with the fabrics, which we will then follow up after the baby is born with the newborn wrapped in the same fabrics.

Here is one of my favorites from today - "with Golden Child"...

Bay Area Newborn Twins Photographer : Double Luck - Sleeping Newborn Twins!

Double Luck. Double Joy.  The stars were surely shining on my Alameda studio today when I photographed newborn twins Francisco and Sofia at 5 weeks old. It is hard enough to get one baby to sleep during a newborn session - but we had some moments with both of these babies sleeping!  This was one of my favorite newborn twin fine art portraits during their moments of bliss...

San Francisco Bay Area Pet and People Photographer | Serenading Kelev

This was a fun session - two musicians and their dog.  I always encourage people to include their families in the session, and honestly dogs are a big part of many of our families - so I say let's include them in at least some of the photos!  Studio portraits of dogs is always fun, but add in some fancy duds, a flute and a violin and I was having a blast! Here are some pics from the session...

Bay Area Teen Photographer - Studio Portraits with Guitar

Elizabeth wanted to do her portraits in studio, and she brought along this guitar which is one thing she loves most. We had a great session and got some cool shots that really captured her relationship to her music.

San Francisco Child Photographer - The Many Faces of Toddler Portraits

I love the days when I get to photograph little faces of growing children who I first photographed when they were only a few days old. I am so intrigued at how the essence of this person was there right from those first portraits, and I look into their faces now and think, "I know this little face. I have seen this face before".  And it tickles me so much to see them laugh and hear them talk. Human beings are simply amazing.  Last week I had one of those days - when Grace came back to my studio in Alameda for newborn family portraits with her baby sister Mia.  Grace is now two years old and both she and Mia did really well in the session. At the end of the session I took the opportunity to shoot some quick pics of Grace alone while they were dressing Mia.  I think I spent about three minutes shooting, and she gave me so many faces!  Now she is a busy little two year old and would not have stayed put for me, but I used a little trick where I put her up on a stool that is too tall for her to get off by herself - so she stayed in one place and entertained me be showing me where her nose was and playing peek-a-boo, and just being her beautiful, funny little Gracie self. We picked favorites from these few moments and created this 6-up collage that captures sweet Grace at two years old.

Bay Area Baby Photographer - Modern One Year Portraits: Birthday Cake & Baby Boudoir?

Babies should not really be considered boudoir subjects as that sounds rather creepy, but when Alexis' Mom brought baby lace leggings for her professional one year portraits in studio and we added some fake pearls and gerber daisies, I cant help but wonder if we have created a new style where baby boudoir is adorable, fresh and fun! see for yourself

 Then to celebrate her first birthday, we included a scrumptious, organic baby birthday cake (which was made by none other than my fabulous assistant Nicole Campion - did you know she is a pastry chef and can make the best cakes you have ever tasted for your next celebration?). Now, this was the first time that Alexis had ever tasted cake - and it is clear that she is a foodie at heart as she was all business!

 

East Bay Alameda Dog Photographer - Puppy Love

Today I photographed one of my Oh Baby! Club babies at 9 months with his adorable chihuahua Goucho and new 10 week old Maltese puppy, Trudy.  OMG - Trudy is the most adorable little ball of fluff you could ever hold in your hand (no offense Goucho).  And at two pounds she fits right in your hand! It was very hard to give her back.  I wanted to capture some pics of the puppy by herself to show her size. So I put a smallish lily in with her for context. But Trudy was smitten with that lily and was sure it was something to eat. She would not let that flower out of her mouth.  So here is Trudy with her lily.

Bay Area Maternity & Newborn Photographer - Fine Art Custom Design Albums

Just got in another fabulous custom design album filled with fine art maternity & newborn photography that is ready to go out to a client!  I just loved this new cover combination so I had to grab a shot before it leaves the studio. I am also just in love with this baby! 

There is no doubt that I ADORE photographing newborns.  I find them fascinating and amazing AND I have the honor of doing it one or more times a week.  But when I was photographing Sejal for her newborn session, I had the strangest feeling - and such a strong reaction to this little one. In the middle of the session it dawned on me that this little newborn girl looked sooooo much like my first born daughter that it just really tugged at my heart strings and brought me back to that place of first being a mother.  Now for those of you that do not know me, by looking at my head shot it would not seem likely that I could produce offspring that resembles this little bundle of wonder - but I assure you that my oldest daughter Sula, who is half Jamaican (of African and East Indian descent) was part of the original mold for this beautiful little baby girl Sejal.  So today we are thrilled to be sending out Sejal's album for her family to enjoy for generations to come!