Mommy To Be

I love when I get to capture the stages of life from the beginning. Here is my friend Kimmy's maternity shoot. The pictures were taken on the beautiful Southern California Coast.

Maternity 101

This is Kathy and Javier. Kathy is a friend of mine that was almost at her full term with baby Xavier. I asked if I could practice taking maternity shots on her because I have never done them before. So we set out for an ocean side seen. I was shooting later in the day trying to capture the golden sunlight. Each session I shoot I try and make them personal to the subjects, so that when they look at their images they don't see what that theirs are similar or just like other people. I try to build a relationship with them. In this case the relationship was built already at work and through a previous shoot of Kathy and her dog Chapo. So when I gave direction is was followed easily and was comfortable for the subject she already kinda knew the routine.