What stops you from doing professional baby pictures? Most new parents say they worry about how the baby “will do” during the portrait session. Well, here’s a tip: Experience changes everything! We are highly-experienced Great Falls, VA area photographers specializing in newborn photography. We have seen it all, and you do not need to worry about doing baby pictures with us! Your child is in very experienced hands with us.

Experience Matters
Ask any experienced mother how they felt with their first baby versus their next child. It’s the same for us – everyone becomes more relaxed the more experience they have with babies. With almost two decades of experience as a portrait photography studio focused on children and families (and as mothers, ourselves), we know just what to do to ensure a happy, safe, and exceptional newborn portrait experience!

We plan out our portrait sessions with infants and children carefully, especially newborns. We make certain that the room is warm and comfortable; that equipment is well secured; and that your baby’s safety and comfort remains our focus at all times. All that while taking exceptional fine art portraits that you will cherish throughout your lifetime, and your children will cherish throughout theirs!

Working with Babies!
Babies are babies! We get that, and we’re ready to cope with them and with you as the parent of a newborn! You might not be 100% adjusted to this little human, and you’re likely sleep-deprived as well! We take our time with each infant and ensure that they are calm and comfortable. When you call to schedule your newborn’s session, we will talk to you about how to best prepare for your baby’s session. Most importantly, we’ll tell you not to worry. We’ve worked with all kinds of children, and we haven’t just survived – we’ve enjoyed each and every session! You will enjoy yours, too!

Investment
Sometimes parents worry about costs, and we can appreciate that. We offer full transparency with our session fees and portrait product costs. You will know what your options are before you buy or commit to anything. More importantly, though, we remind our clients what an important investment newborn and baby portraits are in their lives. Fine art photography is like creating a still-life documentary. You are recording your child’s earliest days to enjoy throughout your lifetime and their lives as adults one day. Trust us as mothers when we say that you won’t remember everything about their lives. Snapshots are great, but the quality of fine art photography far outweighs a snapshot, and the archival quality printing makes a significant difference in outcomes and the lifetime of the photograph.

If you are ready to schedule your newborn photography in the Great Falls, VA area, contact our studio as far in advance as possible. The ideal time for newborn portraits are during the first week of life, but we’ll always work with you no matter your baby’s age!
 

Baby and Newborn Photography, Baby Photographer

Ever After Baby Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter baby photography team located near Great Falls, VA in Northern Virginia. 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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Love is on everyone’s mind these days with Valentine’s Day just a week away! Our newborn photography in the Great Falls, VA area affords us the delightful opportunity to interact frequently with babies, families, and even love itself!

Working with a portrait photography studio to commemorate the lives of your children through portraiture is a beautiful legacy you create for them to enjoy as adults. However, there are many other ways, of course, to demonstrate your love for your newborn.

Here are five of our favorite ways to express love for your baby:

1. Tell your baby you love them while you cuddle them. They might not understand the words yet, but they will begin to equate the soothing and loving sounds of your voice with the phrase and, more importantly, with the feel of your love.

2. Document and display their lives. Proudly recording and displaying your baby’s portraits is an excellent way to validate your love and reinforce your words for them through the positive imagery of their precious lives.

3. Studies have shown that spending quality time with very young children and chatting with them helps them to develop vocabulary. Spend time talking to them and pointing out things while shopping, driving, or walking with them. Show them the world around them!

4. Keep your anger in check. Yes, caring for a newborn is hard work! When your patience is wearing thin, it’s time for a hand-off to a trusted person.

5. Begin creating family traditions early in your baby’s life. It helps to build strong family bonds for the years ahead!

Our newborn photography work in the Great Falls, VA area allows us to be a small part of our clients’ lives. It’s such a pleasure for us to help them document their love for their children through our portraits. We have a profound appreciation for the legacy they are creating for their children. If you would like to schedule a portrait session for your baby, please contact us to discuss our newborn portraits and products.
 

Baby and Newborn Photography, Baby Photographer

Ever After Baby Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter baby photography team located near Great Falls, VA in Northern Virginia. 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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No one loves photographing newborns more than we do! Working with these teeny tiny fingers and toes is just sweet as can be. It’s precious new life, and it’s our job to capture newborns at their purest, most candid, and most adorable – ever so carefully. As a Cascades, VA area family photographer, our newborn sessions are an opportunity to express our creative and maternal sides through our newborn photography. Our clients are the beneficiary of all our creative energy and passion.

Let’s Talk!
• Before we even schedule your session, we will discuss it and several other things with you.
• Every newborn session we do is unique and customized around each baby.
• We talk to the parents about their vision for their child’s first professional portrait. If they have specific ideas or needs, we are happy to try and give them what they want.
• We will discuss ideas for outfits and styling as well as color preferences.
• If you need help with styling ideas, we’re here for you! We know what works well on camera and in printed photographs and wall art.
• If you need special props, ask us! We might already have them.
• Want a themed portrait session? Let us know. We work very hard to satisfy our clients and their vision.
• If your baby has any special needs or you have any concerns at all about doing newborn or baby pictures with us, let us know. We want every baby and all our parents perfectly comfortable during their session.

Why Us?
• It’s tempting to say “why not us,” but we know better than that! The answer to “why us” is that we are experienced and well-known family and newborn photographers.
• We know how to work with your newborn and your child of any age!
• We are exceptionally careful in prepping for each session.
• We check our equipment in advance and are as ready to go as any photographer can be for a photo session.
• The safety and security of your child or children are at the forefront of all our sessions. As parents ourselves, we know just how precious children are to you – and to us!

If you would like to work with a reputable and creative photographer in the Cascades, VA area, contact our studios to schedule your newborn photography session today!
 

Newborn Photography, Baby Photographer

Ever After Baby Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter baby photography team located in Cascades, VA in Northern Virginia 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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The youthful beauty and natural behavior of children can be captured so perfectly through photography. This article in Ants Magazine spectacularly demonstrates the wonder and beauty of children at play around the world. From our Great Falls, VA area studios, we truly appreciate the raw joy captured in these pictures, and we hope you will take a moment to look through them. As specialists in children and baby photography, we think these images demonstrate the importance of photographing your children while they are still joyfully young! Here are a few more reasons:

* Photography is a visual diary of your children. Take photos often for the best visual record-keeping of their growth. Using those digital pictures, you can go online and easily order albums. You (and they) will be so grateful one day that you have those pictures.

* If you start taking photographs of your children while they are very young, they will become accustomed to the camera and to being photographed. Soon your children will forget the camera is there, and you will be more likely to snap good candid pictures of them when they least expect it or notice it. Don’t overdo it, of course, or they’ll start to hate the camera!

* Do both professional and personal photos.
Professional: Be sure to schedule professional portraits of your children! Personally-shot candids are nice, but professional pictures instantly elevate the quality of a photo to portrait art. Years of training, the right equipment, and professional lab printing do make a huge difference!
Personal: Keep your camera or your phone’s camera handy to snap those little personal moments. The most innocuous moments today could be precious decades from now when you’re looking at your pictures and smiling.

* You are busy, but don’t be so busy that you don’t take the time to schedule portraits both of your child alone and of you together as a family. We promise you will never regret having beautiful portraits of your children, but you will regret not having them!

* Look again at the amazing pictures in the Ants Magazine article. We don’t know those children at all, but their images brought joy and smiles to us. We are pretty confident they did to you as well. There is no better reason for encouraging you to do photographs of your children.

We hope we have the opportunity to work with your family. It means so much to us when our clients throughout Northern Virginia, including Great Falls, VA, tell us that our fine art children and baby photography has become heirloom treasures for them, something precious for future generations to enjoy. Let us create a special portrait for you and your family to treasure for generations to come!

Baby Photography, Baby Photographer

Ever After Baby Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter baby photography team located near Great Falls, VA in Northern Virginia. 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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Are you trying to do better when it comes to your own baby photography and snapshots? As fine art baby photographers in the Cascades, VA area, we know that photographing your children can be a bit challenging! We have been doing children’s photography (and we’re moms!) long enough to have learned a few tricks and tips to share with you. But remember, we’re always here to take professional fine art portraits of your little angels when you want something special and lasting.

HOME PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS

• Always be ready! Have your camera charged and easily accessible – the same goes for your camera phone. Anticipating the possibility of a great moment makes for a great candid photo. It’s usually candid photography which best captures children’s personalities in action and shining bright! If you’re doing a home “photo session” and want to set the stage for a great photo, you’ll still need to anticipate the shot and what your child might do while you’re watching.

• Have fun! You know your child, so you know what to expect from them. More than anything, have fun while taking the pictures especially if you’re attempting something particular and need your child to pose. The more serious you are, the less likely they might be to cooperate. But, again, you know what works for your kids!

• Be patient. You’re a parent, and you surely know the value of patience when it comes to dealing with children and babies of any age. Remember that when you most want or need your child to sit or model for you, is when they’re least likely to obey you. Anticipate that sort of behavior, and you’ll be more liable to get better snapshots — and maintain your sanity!

• Look ‘em in the eyes! If you’re shooting a child and you’re shooting from your eye level, guess what? You’re shooting down at them and shrinking your child in the image. Unless it is an effect you want, for the best photo and angle, squat down to their level. Whatever your child’s age or size, whether they’re standing or sitting, get down to their eye level before you shoot.

• Let There be Light. Whenever possible, especially if you are an inexperienced photographer, make use of the natural light available to you. But if you don’t have enough natural light, make sure to use your flash whether it’s on your camera or your phone. Remember that if you’re shooting into the sun, their faces will be darkened unless you turn that flash on!

We hope these tips help you with your at-home snapshots!

Pictures taken by Mom or Dad can be perfectly beautiful. For a special and unique portrait, though, have your newborn and baby photography done by a professional fine art photographer and elevate that imagery to another level entirely. Memories captured through professional photography will live on for generations because we print all of portraits on archival-quality materials. Our indoor and outdoor studios are in Cascades, VA in Northern Virginia. We hope you’ll contact us to discuss your newborn and baby photography!

Baby Photography, Baby Photographer

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. 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