Easy Newborn Posing Workflow For Newborn Photographers

The secret to a successful newborn portrait session is having a solid workflow. You need a plan from start to finish. You also need to feel confident in executing that plan. The fastest way for a newborn session to go downhill is for the photographer to become flustered and anxious. Babies feel it, parents feel it and before you know it you’ve lost control of the session. This used to happen to me when I was first starting out. If a baby was fussy I would become very anxious forgetting poses and spending too much time fumbling from pose to pose. This problem was causing my sessions to last 3-4 hours. I was not able to focus on lighting or styling and as a result I was not progressing in my work. I needed to come up with away to help me remember my workflow without flipping through my workflow manual.

I came up with a sly way of displaying my workflow above my posing bean bag to help keep me focused and on track. I printed an image of each pose in my workflow on an 8x8 canvas and hung them in a collage above my posing bag. They were in order of my workflow, so when I started to get flustered and not sure what to do next or forgot a pose all I’d have to do is look up at my workflow wall and I was back to work. Not only did this help keep me focused and calm it also was a beautiful display of my work that clients often admire.

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