Pregnancy & Maternity

Pregnancy & Maternity Photographer Christchurch, New Zealand.

Ever since Demi Moore was photographed for the front cover of Vanity Fair, more and more women have chosen to be captured for posterity in the prime of their pregnancy.

Pregnancy is one great time in your life when your partner, you and your closest are looking forward to welcoming a new life into your family.

A pregnancy photography session is a stunning way to capture this momentous life-changing event. Your pregnancy photographs will be sensual, graceful and intimate. 

You are welcome to have your session taken in my studio or choose your favourite park, beach, any place you like. It maybe a place that has meaning to you. Your family home is an excellent option; it's comfortable, personal, and accommodating for changing wardrobes if need be. I can come and set my portable studio up in a jiffy, and or use your natural home surroundings.

I want to make sure your pregnancy photo shoot is a relaxing, stress- free and memorable experience. And if you’d like to have the full magazine front cover experience I’m happy to arrange a makeup artist or hair stylist for you.

The optimum time to take these priceless photos is 34-35 weeks or around 28 weeks if you are expecting two bundles of joy.

To avoid missing this chance just remember to book in as soon as you are ready – your baby might arrive a bit earlier than expected!

I am here to make your experience showcase who you are and your story, so do not worry if recent trends of going semi-nude is not for you. I am very happy to do any type of portrait in which you feel most comfortable.

My focus is on beautifully presented high resolution digital images for you to get any prints of any size on any medium you choose to have anytime in the future, or share on social media. I also offer high end pieces of artwork for your walls, mantle piece or bedside cabinets. 

Portrait Price List:

You may just be after one awesome image or many different images. You can get easy up to 10 completely different amazing digital images. It all depends on what I'm shooting for how many images you get, but no good images are left out and no two images are the same. It's definitely quality here and not quantity. 

There is no extra fee for location portraits within Christchurch as I love to get out of the studio and I think some folk are more relaxed and happy at a spot they like or that has meaning.

My fee is really good with this flat rate = no hidden costs like many other portrait photographers who charge you a small or free sitting fee then push you to spend up to even thousands for the pictures and that's maybe not even including the digital images. 

Fee for just yourself and your bump = $495, With your partner / the whole family = $595

Extra Info:

Booking - You're very much welcome to meet up in advance so I can help you plan your session in person. If time or distance is not easy than we can chat via email / phone. Upon booking you will be required to pay the full amount anytime until 48 hrs prior via internet banking or at the start of our session in cash. I provide a 100% money back cancellation fee up to 1 hour prior the start of the session. So do not worry if someone not feeling well or the weather is terrible and you need to postpone or cancel.

What to wear - Wear what you, your partner and friends think you look best in. If you're not quite sure bring 2 or 3 tops, extra bling. Go with your vibe. My only thing is no creases in the tops. Tough to photoshop out. Best to check prior and iron if need be. If a crease does appear we can easily iron it here.

Hair and Makeup - Totally up to you. How you like. If you are not sure I can recommend and organise the best makeup artist & hairstylists I know in this town. $150 for makeup or $190 for hair and makeup. You may want to visit your hairdresser / makeup store just prior the shoot for a quick style or feel confident getting a friend or just doing it all yourself. 

The session - Expect the entire session to be half to an hour but it's so much fun it seems very quick. We shoot as much as we can as many ideas we can to get our awesome bunch of images.

After the shoot - I will spend a couple of hours culling / picking the hundreds of photos we took down to a perfect amount. No good image is missed out. No two identical images are kept in. I then spend a couple of hours ever so slightly improving the image quality. That is exposure, colours, framing, taking out anything distracting. Then email you the high / full resolution images for you to download on your computer to have forever. I suggest you share the images to other computers and stick on an external hard drive i.e. create multiple backups. We do keep back ups here in case you ever lose the images.

You can choose to help select the finals. It is a difficult and tedious task as you may have to look at more than one face at a time for each image to see what is best for everyone and folk can go crazy doing this hence I don't recommend. But I do not mind one bit and totally understand if you wish too, but this does take extra time so my fee for this is $150. 

Reprints & Enlargements:

You can order basic reprints and enlargements easily through me (only what the lab charges for the cost of printing if you pick up from the lab yourself or from me personally). This is an amazing after sales service that I fully recommend. So roughly a 6x4 inch reprint = $1, 5x7 inch = $3, A4 / 8x12 / 8x10 inch) size print = $10 etc.. 

If you're after getting great quality photo prints yourself then I only recommend going to Kens Cameras on Victoria street. If you do choose to order at Kens I can meet you there for $100 to help you see what images you would like printed to what size and what medium as in prints that you can frame, canvas, metal, acrylic etc. Or just pop in yourself as they are very helpful and have samples and sizes and no obligation to get any printing done if you’re still deciding.