Maternity Photography – an excellent award to yourself
Expectant parents impose the importance of pregnancy photography according to prevailing circumstances and environment in family, house or society. But the significance of maternity photography is same for everyone whether it is first, second or third. Anyway, it depends upon the expectant parents how they interpret it. Last year in L.A I met with Dominic and her husband. I know the family since last 3 years, when they got married. Two years back, Allen lost his job. Though he initiated his home business but still he is not earning well. However, she is employed but with not a decent salaried job. As a result, they try to cut the expenses at every stage. Last month, she got the validation report of first pregnancy. It was the great news for both of them as well as for their family members. As both are quite grown, so they were well aware about the new responsibilities affiliated with the addition to their family tree. Both wanted to make this development memorable by having maternity photography but it involved many issues which seemed to be complex to be dealt:
– Lack of basic knowledge and background about the photography
– Budget
– Antagonism by elder family members
– Preparation
– Faraway area from city
They called me to review the matter. All the points they raised were of common nature and I think most of couple who decide in the favor of maternity face same issues; after all, degree of intensity differs in each case. The solution to each such bad situation lies in the firm conclusion and in strategic, customized and professional approach. Solution depends upon how you recognize the causes and how you do value to those causes. But, it is sure that with very little work, you can enjoy your right of having maternity photography.
Many sites give useful tips to make the maternity photography a pleasant experience. Nevertheless, these tips are considering ideal living conditions while everyone lives in different social and economical conditions. What I suggest is that we should use these tips as guidelines to plan the entire course of pregnancy photography. We should analyze the rightness of tips to our own social and economical circumstances. The most important thing to find out the resolution is to make the whole exercise stress free. For example, you may use the maternity albums of some close relative or friends to assure the elder family members. Likewise, you can fix the numbers of photographs, sessions and locations etc prior to start your search for the maternity photographer to keep the whole exercise within budget limits. If the budget is too tight, do not agree with the experience or repute of photographer; better do it yourself. For this you do not need to be professional photographer; just go through some maternity photography sites.
Olga Rahmaninof is the owner of canvas prints website and an art teacher
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