Offering stylish and classic Houston Newborn Photography, Sarah Borchgrevink offers includes gorgeous black and white edits in your final galleries.
Importance of adding depth and soul to your newborn galleries
Good morning, everyone! Happy Thursday! Today's blog post is going to chat about the importance of including black and white images in your final galleries, why I do so, and how to create soulful newborn portraits full of depth through dynamic lighting. If this is your first time here, please allow me to introduce myself! My name is Sarah. Located in Houston, I specialize in posed studio newborn photography and serve the entire area. While I offer a handful of maternity and family sessions per month, I truly delight in working with my most petite clients, and hope you find this post informative as either another photographer or potential client.
When photographing a brand new baby, such as James you see above, I bring them to my Houston Newborn Photo Studio when they're about 2 weeks or newer. Here you'll find everything you need for soulful newborn portraiture that's inspired by vintage props and evokes a sense of emotion and depth. While cute photos of newborn babies is always a plus, the art of newborn photography should also preserve a time in which baby acts as an art piece. Parents are investing in stunning work so part of commissioning a newborn portrait artist is trusting their creativity, such as how they light and process the images. Photography, after all, is all about light and using light to create a statement. This may sound slightly pretentious to those who aren't photographers, however, that's the goal: to create a connection to your past, to preserve, to celebrate, to use dynamic lighting and say something beautiful.
When booking a session, parents choose one of three collections I offer. You may be interested in viewing them here. Along with their color images, I do include black and white edits as a perk to newborn clients.
Shows Contours and Highlights of Baby
I use studio lights during my newborn sessions and this is how you create contours, shapes, and highlights to the baby. This is how you create gorgeous tones and structure to the characteristics of a newborn baby. Parents have spent months dreaming of their baby's face from their sweet little button noses, cupid lips, tiny eyelashes, their profiles, and tufts of hair. The black and white photograph of newborn babies preserves this in the most stunning of manners by really showcasing those gorgeous contours of your babies face.
Baby is the succint focus without distractions
By removing the color from an image, the shape of your subject is truly highlighted. The negative space surrounding the baby only emphasizes their skin tones and little features. The wrap, pigmentation of baby's skin tones, or other objects within the frame will not detract from baby. All you see is their adorable selves, from the way their newborn hands delicately cup a cheek, the strings of the bonnet against their shoulder, or the triangle of light against their face - this creates emotion and depth. Mothers will look at these images and truly remember this special time in their lives. I have three little ones myself and motherhood and the ever changing journey of this does influence my newborn portraiture.
Helps portrait artists shoot more creatively and see light
When you're not focusing on colors, you see the way light forms around the shape of your subject. This teaches you to be more creative on light placement and the times of the day you shoot if you happen to be also be a natural light photographer.
Creates emotion
With the color gone, there is nothing but connection left. The colors of the backdrop become irrelevent because baby's beautiful grace is all that is present and you're left with the irrevokable sense of peace and serenity of the sleeping newborn cherub.
Timeless, Classic and Inspired by Vintage Pieces
Something I consistently strive for, in my newborn work, is to be simple, timeless, and classic. I am inspired by vintage props, texture, and often lighting. When designing your newborn sessions, I cannot help but feel excited every time a new baby comes to visit! This is a chance to engage the viewer but also create something that will forever preserve a special time.
Why be trendy when you can be timeless?
Sarah Borchgrevink Photography is a Houston Newborn Photographer specializing in gorgeous posed newborn sessions. Her studio is located in Northwest Houston. In addition to breathtaking baby portraiture, Sarah also offers stylish natural light family photography as well as dynamic outdoor maternity sessions for expecting mothers and couples. Sarah joyfully serves the entire Harris and Montgomery county areas including North Houston, Cypress, Tomball, Spring, Jersey Village, The Woodlands, Magnolia, Conroe, Willis, Montgomery, Humble, Kingwood, Porter, New Caney, Waller, Memorial & West Houston, Katy, Fulshear, Sugar Land, Pearland, Hempstead, Richmond, West University, Rice Village and Porter TX. Connect to chat with Sarah today! Please consider booking your session at your earliest convenience in order to secure your appointments on the calendar.