Vendors Photographers Need (pt2)
Vendors for Newborn Photogs
Introduction
As a newborn photographer, building strong relationships with related vendors can enhance your services, provide valuable resources for clients, and help grow your business. In this blog post, we'll explore some of the key vendors you should connect with, including OBGYNs, bakers for baby showers, doulas, balloon and decor vendors, and baby shops.
OBGYNs
OBGYNs are often one of the first resources expectant parents turn to for advice and recommendations. By networking with local OBGYNs, you can position yourself as a trusted newborn photographer in the community, potentially gaining referrals from their patients.
Doulas
Doulas provide invaluable support to families during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. By networking with doulas, you can create a referral system that benefits both businesses, as well as provide clients with trusted recommendations for additional support.
Bakers for Baby Showers
Many families celebrate the impending arrival of a new baby with a baby shower, often featuring a beautifully crafted cake or desserts. Connecting with local bakers specializing in baby shower confections can lead to collaborations, as well as referrals for your photography services.
Balloon and Decor Vendors
Collaborating with vendors specializing in balloons and event decor can help you create beautiful, memorable photo sessions for your clients. These vendors can also refer their clients to you for newborn photography services. Pro tip: balloon and decor vendors always know great bakers.
Baby Shops
Baby shops are a hub for expectant parents and can serve as a valuable referral source for your photography business. Building connections with local baby shops can lead to collaborations on events, workshops, or promotional offers that benefit both businesses.
Conclusion
By cultivating relationships with these key vendors, you can enhance your services, offer additional resources to your clients, and grow your newborn photography business through referrals and collaborations. Networking within your community is an essential part of building a successful and thriving photography business.
Save Money, Get Digitals
Save Money, Get Digitals
Investing in digital backgrounds for newborn photography can offer several benefits:
1. Versatility: Digital backgrounds allow for easy customization and flexibility in creating unique and personalized images for your clients. With a wide range of backgrounds available, you can quickly and easily switch between different themes and styles, without the need for physical props or location changes.
2. Time-saving: Using digital backgrounds can save you valuable time during photo shoots, as you won't need to spend time setting up and adjusting physical backdrops. This efficiency can enable you to focus more on capturing great images and interacting with your clients.
3. Cost-effective: Digital backgrounds are often more affordable than physical backdrops, especially in the long run. Once purchased, a digital background can be used repeatedly without incurring additional costs, unlike physical backdrops which may require maintenance, storage, or replacement.
4. Easy to use: With basic knowledge of photo editing software, incorporating digital backgrounds into your images is relatively simple. Many digital backgrounds come with tutorials or instructions, making the learning curve accessible for photographers at all skill levels.
With the correct light source and knowledge of layers and masks in Photoshop, digital backdrops can add variety to your newborn photo sessions.
Newborns: Behind the Curtain
For those that are expecting or those thinking about photographing newborns, there is a lot that goes on to get “the shot.” Trust me. I get enough of “those shots” to fill an album. I have to. Its part of my newborn package.
I’ll skip what I bring to my shoots since I covered that already but if you’re new CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT I BRING
Invest in photoshop
I’ve invested lots of time into mastering Photoshop so what looks like a dangerous actually isn’t. SAFETY FIRST. The amount of time it takes to stitch these images together and the time to pose the baby.
It is inevitable
Babies go where babies want to go. And yes, the diaper was on (not closed but covering). Consider it a right of passage. If you’re a photographer, this is what christens you as a newborn photographer. If you’re a parent, it means your baby approves of me.
Yes thats a bottle opener on my phone. No judging.
Blessings
I have it in my contract that I am allowed to use the images however I want (marketing & posting). Regardless of this, I make sure it’s ok with the parent if I post to social media. There are some weirdos out there. Out in the world, not parents… well sometimes parents.
Get in There
Parents trust me with their newborns so I can trust them with my camera. I know how to get the look I need in the shot so I set everything, tell the parent where to stand, and what button to press. ” Poof” beautiful shot and safe baby.
A great graduation gift.
If you have a question you can ask in the comment section.
It's Fall Y'all
Sweater weather has arrived! I’ve checked the peak time for fall foliage for North Jersey and it is estimated to be the last 2 weeks of October. That is the perfect time to get the family together for a fall session.
20 min session
5 digitals chosen from a gallery of the entire session.
$250
I'm Back
Thanks for all the well wishes on social. The family is doing great. Monroe is just the cutest little bundle of joy but it’s time. Time to get back to work. So how can I help you make memories?
Family Portraits
Maternity & Newborn Portraits
Weddings
Head Shots
Branding
Sweet 16s
Events
Help me get these girls through college.
What to look for when hiring a maternity &/or newborn photographer.
Experience
You will be pregnant with this child only once. You might be spending a lot of money on one or both of these sessions. Make sure your photographer can consistently produce what they are showing on their site or social media. An experienced photographer should be answering most of your questions before you even ask them.
Vibe
You should be vibing with your photographer. If you aren’t comfortable with your photographer, there is a good chance that will come through in your photos. Photographers who know what they are doing are comfortable with their sessions and their confidence 9/10 will be passed onto you.
Can They Bundle?
Maternity photographers might not be newborn photographers but newborn photographers are almost always maternity photographers as well. See if they have bundle packaging. My “The Glow” package is a maternity session and newborn session and images from both sessions end up in your album and, at times, the birth announcement cards.
Ps: you should be printing this beautiful journey out. Don’t just post it on your social media, print it out and hang images in your nursery. Make an album and put it on your coffee table for all to see.
Reasons you need prints in your life (Copy)
Reasons you need prints in your life.
While I love and respect the posting and sharing of my clients’ images after one of my photoshoots, I feel like clients should go the extra mile and get those images printed. It doesn’t even have to be through me. I’m in the process of getting photo release cards so clients don’t run the risk of other places not printing my photography. If you take the time and spend the money on a shoot, some sort of physical product should be purchased as well. If you just take the digital prints and never do anything with them you run the risk of losing the USB and your computer crashing. Yes this is worse case scenario it won’t happen right away. I only archive my clients’ images for a year or so.
Showing off the digital images can be a nuisance also. You need to be near a computer. You need to find the USB if it’s not saved on your computer. Physical products are usually on a coffee table, on your wall, or make your mornings bright when you hold your coffee mug with my images on them. You see these products every day.
You have choices as well. You’re free to take your images to Walmart or Costco. I don’t recommend it. I won’t stop you. I will warn you that the quality and colors will most likely be subpar. The quality of those products won’t compare with manufactures that strictly deal with professional photographers. Screens are calibrated and images are color corrected so you receive the best image possible.
Yes it will cost more. There is nothing wrong with going the less expensive route. Quality will make your images stand out though. Just what ever you do, don’t let your image collect dust hidden in a drawer.
Gift Certificates Available
Give the gift of photography. Memories for life.
Reasons you need prints in your life
Reasons you need prints in your life.
While I love and respect the posting and sharing of my clients’ images after one of my photoshoots, I feel like clients should go the extra mile and get those images printed. It doesn’t even have to be through me. I’m in the process of getting photo release cards so clients don’t run the risk of other places not printing my photography. If you take the time and spend the money on a shoot, some sort of physical product should be purchased as well. If you just take the digital prints and never do anything with them you run the risk of losing the USB and your computer crashing. Yes this is worse case scenario it won’t happen right away. I only archive my clients’ images for a year or so.
Showing off the digital images can be a nuisance also. You need to be near a computer. You need to find the USB if it’s not saved on your computer. Physical products are usually on a coffee table, on your wall, or make your mornings bright when you hold your coffee mug with my images on them. You see these products every day.
You have choices as well. You’re free to take your images to Walmart or Costco. I don’t recommend it. I won’t stop you. I will warn you that the quality and colors will most likely be subpar. The quality of those products won’t compare with manufactures that strictly deal with professional photographers. Screens are calibrated and images are color corrected so you receive the best image possible.
Yes it will cost more. There is nothing wrong with going the less expensive route. Quality will make your images stand out though. Just what ever you do, don’t let your image collect dust hidden in a drawer.
Gift Certificates Available
Give the gift of photography. Memories for life.