These are just a few of the reasons I love doing maternity and newborn photos. The expectant mother's excitement and the purity of a new baby. I love taking clean images a little on the darker side. I have spent this past year finding my niche, what I like, (what I don't) and what my style is and I have found maternity and newborn to definitely be my favorite.
Newborn photography is not for the camera enthusiast. What I have learned is it takes a lot of patience, knowledge, education, skill, proper equipment, photoshop knowledge and most of all maternal instinct.
I have been a legitimate business for over a year now. While I don't regret starting, I think if I had known how much work, time and money would be involved with starting out, I might have waited another year or two to start. No one really understands the amount of work, research, investment and sacrifice goes into being a custom photographer until they actually go into business and try it. I have read that the majority of photography business do not make it to their 5th anniversary, I would like to be in this for the long haul. While it is a lot of work, and sometimes more than I can handle, I thoroughly enjoy getting to take part in intimate moments of people's lives, taking photos to stand a moment still. As an avid scrapbooker for 10 years now, I can appreciate the importance of photographs and what they mean to a family. They become part of a family's history, their heritage. I am blessed to be given the gift I have to take the photos that I do. It takes much more than a great camera to take a nice photograph :)
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