Maternity/newborn pics.

chereelh · July 2015

Anyone plan on taking maternity/ newborn pics with a photographer? If so, how much is yours costing?

Kbhunter · July 2015

My newborn shoot is $600. It will include my 18 month old daughter in some as well with the baby and maybe me if I'm feeling up to it.

dannie134 · July 2015

I think you will find that this varies pretty substantially by region, and also depends on what your package includes. For example, we looked into one option that would have been $300 for the session but with a $300 minimum order (prints or digital), and part of the session fee was credited towards that order. We ended up going with a photographer who charges a flat fee and will give us digital rights to the pictures so we can decide if we want to have prints made on our own. Some photographers have packages that include prints. Our session and edited digital photos will cost $425, and we get 2-4 hours for a family session at our home. Some photographers I contacted also offered maternity/newborn packages if that's something you're interested in, but I think you'll want to get a few quotes from local photographers and I'd suggest starting ASAP as the good ones can book up pretty far ahead of time.

elisnyd16 · July 2015

We are in Southern California- our 4 hour shoot is 200 and for all the prints (30 edited) on a usb drive it is 725... And that was about avg when I looked around here!

babycamara1106 · July 2015

My sister is a photographer so its not costing us anything

Ree0123 · July 2015

I'm paying 140 for mine

VioletandRose · July 2015

No maternity, just newborn. It is $250 but does not include prints.

VioletandRose · July 2015

dannie134 said:

I think you will find that this varies pretty substantially by region, and also depends on what your package includes. For example, we looked into one option that would have been $300 for the session but with a $300 minimum order (prints or digital), and part of the session fee was credited towards that order. We ended up going with a photographer who charges a flat fee and will give us digital rights to the pictures so we can decide if we want to have prints made on our own. Some photographers have packages that include prints. Our session and edited digital photos will cost $425, and we get 2-4 hours for a family session at our home. Some photographers I contacted also offered maternity/newborn packages if that's something you're interested in, but I think you'll want to get a few quotes from local photographers and I'd suggest starting ASAP as the good ones can book up pretty far ahead of time.

This is just about spot on from every photographer I've spoken to. The poster is right, book now. I was surprised when I called around last month and a lot of photographers were already booked for October. Particularly if you want/need a weekend day. (Some photographers do charge more for weekends.)

MrsNichols14 · July 2015

I'm getting maternity pictures next month, my friend and fellow photog is doing them. I get a major discount from her. I didn't get any with my last one (5 years ago) and did JCPenney one's with my first (horrid), so I'm pretty excited for these. I'm a photographer so I'll be taking her newborn pictures. It's so important to get newborn pictures because they change so much, and quick. So choose a good professional photographer, and one that has experience with newborns!

chereelh · July 2015

Thanks all. I think I found a good one, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't over paying. For maternity and newborn with some prints and pics it's going to be about $400. So it sounds about right.

shanti20 · July 2015

I took maternity pictures and paid 101 @ portrait innovations

dolly25 · July 2015

Im going to due mine @ A studio for about $50 at the most but will wait about 5 days to take him in OCT.

danixbanani24 · July 2015

Yeah nyc here I got quoted $650 and more! I've started pinning diy newborn photo shoot posts as I have quite a few friends who are good with a professional camera.

kelsojohnso · November 2015

We just had our newborn pictures today, they ran us $125 and she sends us all the digital copies... we print where we choose. This is up in rural Minnesota to give you an idea as far as region goes...