EAST LONDON NEWBORN PHOTOGRAPHER


New baby photography is best done when your baby is up to around 3 weeks new, although I have successfully captured newborn photographs of babies up to around 6-8 weeks, and premature babies at around 4 months.

I specifically recommend avoiding days 7-9 as new babies tend to cluster feed around this time. I also recommend waiting until feeding is well-established before having your session; this can sometimes take several days.

I keep some flexibility in my diary each week so I can usually shift your booked session date, if baby comes early / late etc.



The best time to book your session is after your 20 week scan and before you are around 7 months pregnant. I only book a fixed number of sessions a week. This is so that I have the flexibility to change newborn session dates with you, if your baby arrives earlier or later than expected. Newborn sessions are only available on weekdays. For these reasons, early booking is advisable.

Sessions take place in my comfy, home-from-home, East London family & baby photography studio (less than 10 mins from Canning Town, Stratford and Canary Wharf, on the border of Tower Hamlets and Newham).

In the last weeks of your pregnancy, we will chat through preparation tips for your newborn photography session. We will also discuss clothing and colour schemes to match your tastes and home decor. This is to keep everything beautifully coordinated so you have a lovely selection of images to pick your album and wall art prints etc from.

My classic newborn photoshoots usually take around 4 hours, this can depend a bit on how much baby feeds during the session, when baby sleeps and how many other siblings there may be. These sessions are untimed though, so you can sit back and relax. There’s no pressure to get done in a particular time frame; I set the whole day aside exclusively for your session. This means we can even decide on the start time, on the morning of the session, depending on how your night with baby has gone.

Newborn mini sessions are focused 90 min sessions. Because these are much shorter sessions we focus on wrapped shots of your baby in props and wrapped parent portraits as these can be acheived whether baby is asleep or awake.

Classic newborn sessions are perfect for your immediate family, including siblings. (The largest newborn family I’ve photographed so far at these sessions is new baby plus 3 siblings). If you would like portraits with grandparents or aunts / uncles too, just let me know and we can plan for this.

Newborn mini sessions are exclusively for you, the parent(s) and your new baby.

It is an honour to be trusted with photographing your new baby, and so as regular training in the art of safe newborn baby posing, I have also taken baby first aid courses, so that I can safely create these baby photos for you.

You will find that there are couple of poses that I will not put your new baby into, as I believe there to be risk associated with these. You will notice during the shoot that I am conscious of your baby’s airways, temperature and comfort throughout the session.



For your reassurance, I am also a registered member of BANPAS (the baby and newborn photography network) as well as most of the UK’s other leading professional photography associations.

We meet again, about two weeks after your shoot, to go through your edited images. When we meet we decide on which package of (digital) images and printed items you would like. There are a few packages available. See below for more details.



Before coming back to this appointment, I recommend sending me photos of walls and rooms you’re thinking of hanging pictures up on, so I can take this into consideration when preparing your images for your viewing.

Mini sessions are ideal if you’re on a tight budget or only want a few photos to remember this stage and age by. They are quick 90 min sessions, and we’re aiming to capture five different portraits: wrapped and in props and wrapped and in the parents’ arms.

If you’re after more images, or a wider variety including ones of your baby curled up with their skin exposed, close ups of the little details like lashes and fingers, and more family portraits, including ones with siblings, then I would recommend the classic newborn photoshoot.



Regardless of the session type, you can always add on frames, prints and albums, though I’d suggest that the minimum number of images you’d want for an album is 10.