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04.14.10

The Savvy Sisterhood Workshop | Part 2 | Maternity Photographer

During The Savvy Sisterhood Workshop one of my teaching lessons was to run through a mini session and show a touch of my styling, posing, and shooting. Unfortunately (or fortunately) it rained the first 3 days we were there. All the dreams of walking around the gorgeous grounds of The Inn at Perry Cabin in the evening sunlight quickly went out the door. Luckily I had a very sweet volunteer (one of the attendees) to allow me to do a maternity session with her in one of the master suites at the Inn. This sounds easy enough for her right? Not quite. I had to do this lesson 3 times straight, an hour each and in front of 20+ photographers per group. If any of you have been on the other side of the camera you will know just having one person staring at you is hard, try 20+ and in your undies! She was amazing and stunning.

Thank you my Dear for being so wonderful to me and the rest of the Sisters at Savvy! Here are some of my fav’s.

Tell me your favorite!

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07.27.09

Inspiration | Fredericksburg Virginia Maternity Photographer

It started as a little Facebook vent that a couple of fellow photographers Stephanie Johnson and Rashmi Pappu, were not loving doing their maternity sessions and needed some inspiration. Personally, I LOVE maternity sessions and could shoot them everyday…all day (well, that is a bit excessive, but you get the point). Since I clearly can’t get enough of maternities and will do anything to get one in one of my fields. I told Stephanie and Rashmi to get a model (or two) and we would go play maternity session, my way. So they put out the word that a free session was to be had and we had more prego girls than we knew what to do with! While they were sorting out the mom’s to be, I did what I like to do and begun styling the shoot. I already knew we were going to play in one of my fields, and lucky us all the fields are overflowing with Queen Anne Lace wildflowers right now….sigh!

So, onto the styling. Styling is something I want to do a lot more of for my clients. I hope that my current clients and my future clients can see through this session that it is worth the extra effort to bring the vision together. I was going for Boho Chic for this session. Earthy, natural and colorful amongst the white of the Queen Anne Lace. Something as simple as a straw hat, jewelry and a couple of flowers really took the images to the next level. Of course the lovely Mommies to Be added a ton. They were both so awesome, withstood the heat and did anything we asked of them.

There are going to be a lot of images. I get a little too excited when I have a vision, and it works out. Also there is a bit of “skin” in this post. If you are not comfortable with a lot of skin, please feel free to leave the blog or click here.

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