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.