This prenatal photo session took place in Brooklyn, at a client’s home, who is a famous and very accomplished photographer around New York. Due to our scheduling conflicts the photo shoot finally took place literally two days before the client’s due date.. to add to the pressure of photographing another photographer. Nevertheless, the session turned out to be fun and we loved the chemistry between the subjects. We shot it mostly with natural light and a 50mm f1.4 Canon lens.
Perhaps the biggest challenge of maternity and prenatal photography is composition. The fact is that women do not generally feel very sexy when they are pregnant, so the biggest challenge for a maternity photographer is to make her feel beautiful and comfortable, so that you can go on and concentrate on finding the best possible angles, light, and poses that will compliment your given subject. Also, we tried to simplify the surroundings, so that the beautiful belly is the main focus of the session.
We strongly believe that in maternity photo sessions props are essential: sarongs, scarves, colorful blankets, beautiful bedding sets, duvet covers, and such. If siblings are available than they could be included – in this case the shoot was built around the interaction between the clients’ son and mom’s wonderful belly. We strived to highlight the relationships in this photo session, between mother and son, father and son, mom and dad, and their chemistry turned out to be warm, sentimental, funny, and most importantly full of love and tenderness.
