What is your ideal? We know ours! Even before we became known for our professional pregnancy photos, we knew what constituted an ideal maternity client! If truth be told, every photographer has a dream client – whether in their imagination or reality. At Ever After, we’ve been fortunate enough to have ideal clients in and around Brambleton, VA and across Northern Virginia.

So, what defines our ideal client, you ask?

• It’s usually a woman (It is usually the mom or mom-to-be reaching out to us.)
• She is excited about her pregnancy and arrival of her precious baby.
• She is in love with her family – not to mention that baby!
• She is usually at the nucleus of her household and, thanks to her, it is close-knit. She works hard to create a strong sense of family.
• She is searching for a photographer she can trust to create memorable baby photography. She will carefully explore her options for an excellent, caring, and reputable photographer (like we are at Ever After).
• She wants to create lasting memories. She values documenting those memories through photography.
• Finally, once she or her family have posed for their session, she will later carefully select portraits to display and decorate their family home! She’s proud of her family, and she wants to see their portraits each day.

Great pictures come as a result of a good working relationship between the subject and their photographer. Our ideal client values our genuine interest in them. They also appreciate our skills and our ability to create candid, casual poses reflective of their family’s lifestyle and family bonds.

We love creating poignant and artistic professional pregnancy photos you’ll treasure for many years. We’re always interested in meeting new ideal clients and creating extraordinary portraits for them in the Brambleton, VA area!

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Ever After Baby Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter baby photography team located in Sterling, VA in Northern Virginia, near Brambleton, VA. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits, including newborn and baby portraits. Family means everything and capturing those precious moments to preserve forever will mean family heirlooms for you to share for years to come.

Best,
Mindy & Joriana – Contact Us!

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Designing your sweet baby’s nursery can be a very exciting time! Even the best newborn photographers here in Broadlands, VA know not to give you too much advice on this topic – we leave that to the interior design experts and your personal tastes! However, we do know a thing or two about design composition, and we love beautiful spaces. We always urge our clients to include family portraits throughout the nursery – more than likely hanging on the walls where the baby can awaken each morning and fall asleep each night looking at portraits of family. What better thing for your baby to look at every time they’re in their room?!

Compose it!

Decorating any space, let alone a nursery, can be a bit intimidating, or it can get overwhelming. So, pick a starting point. It could be a piece of fabric, a color, a pattern, a decorative item or picture you love and want to include in the nursery. Many parents start with either a color scheme or the crib. Build the nursery around whatever you have chosen for your starting point. Have something you love and want to represent in your baby’s room? Start with that and build around it.

Personalize it!

Make a nursery your child’s unique space by customizing it to your taste. Later, when they are old enough to know and express their feelings, you can make some changes. Meanwhile, use newborn and family portraits including maternity pictures, mementos, letters spelling the baby’s name, and other items to customize your nursery. Studies have shown that when children see pictures of themselves in their family home, it helps them to build self-esteem because they feel loved and valued as something bigger than themselves.

Color it beautiful!

Many parents opt for soft pastel colors which for late night feedings can be soothing and lovely. However, your baby’s vision isn’t fully developed when they’re born. It improves throughout their first year of life. In its earliest months, babies are extremely nearsighted and see contrasts more than anything. Using bold, contrasting colors is one way to help your child’s vision develop – although it is not necessary.

Furniture

Three things should be at the top of your furniture list: A rocking chair or glider for the parents, a crib (of course), and a changing table. After those, if you still have room, a closet or cabinet for storing diapers, clothes, toys, and books is ideal.

We are certain that whatever you do for your baby will be beautiful because you’ve designed and created it with love and your baby in mind! If your nursery design includes your baby’s portraits, using one of the best newborn photographers in the Broadlands, VA area would mean working with us! Contact us. We’d love to do a beautiful series of newborn portraits for your new nursery!
 

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Ever After Baby Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter baby photography team located in Northern Virginia, near Broadlands, VA. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits, including newborn and baby portraits. Family means everything and capturing those precious moments to preserve forever will mean family heirlooms for you to share for years to come.

Best,
Mindy & Joriana – Contact Us!

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We work hard to be the best newborn photographer from Broadlands, VA to our Sterling, VA backyard and across Northern Virginia! Given our lengthy experience as a professional photographer, our friends often ask how much they should pay for photography. It is an excellent question with an answer that is both simple and complicated.

If you want to spend less, then you may or may not get what you want. (Prepare yourself to be disappointed, just in case!) If you’re paying a bit more, then you should expect better quality portraits. The best photographers are often the ones with the most experience and, as a result, charge more. Just as with other professionals, you usually get what you pay for – whether you hire a family or a newborn photographer in Northern VA.

With any professional photographer, you are paying for their skills, their training, their equipment and technology, and, lastly, you are paying for experience. When you hire Ever After, you are getting all of that in addition to our full commitment to you and your portraits. We are always happy to discuss our pricing because we believe in full transparency. Contact us!

Earlier this year we posted a good article from the Angie’s List blog. It’s worth including the link once again because it provided good tips on how to select a photographer and the role pricing can play. In part the article states: “Expertise is the main factor that dictates the price a professional photographer charges. With more experience, a professional photographer typically charges more.”

On the subject of experience, it is important to point out that everyone has to start somewhere. We were novices at one point. There are two skill sets with professional photography: technical knowledge and practical knowledge. Technical means you know everything (or almost everything) on the technical aspects of photography including equipment. The practical knowledge involves experience in handling clients before, during, and after a portrait session. That only comes with practice and time.

Today, we have those years of experience, technical expertise, and practical knowledge. So to answer the initial question of “How much should you invest in your family portraits?”, it depends largely on your budget and your expectations. You should invest what you can to get what you want.

We are happy to discuss your budget and work within your budget. Please contact us if you’d like to work with the best newborn photographer in the Broadlands, VA and Northern Virginia area. We understand (and appreciate) that our clients are making an investment in telling their stories through our photography.
 

Baby Photography, Baby Photographer, Best Newborn Photographer

Ever After Baby Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter baby photography team located in Northern Virginia, near Broadlands, VA. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits, including newborn and baby portraits. Family means everything and capturing those precious moments to preserve forever will mean family heirlooms for you to share for years to come.

Best,
Mindy & Joriana – Contact Us!

View Our Portfolio | Ever After Baby Portraits