Baby Steps: Non-Professional Photography Training for parents and enthusiasts:
The non-pro workshop workbook is now available for $39, please inquire for more information.
*See the Virginia tab above for the non-pro classes in VA
The Blooming Baby Business:
Baby Photographers Photography Training & Photography Business Documents for the Professional Photographer or the Photographer Going Pro!
Professional Documents Available:
Bitsy Baby client prep for Newborn Session in a studio $49
This document includes preparation guidelines for you and many details to share with your client for ensuring a comfortable and happy baby resulting in a smooth and sucessful session
Bitsy Baby client prep for Newborn Session on location $49
We have found the prep for a studio session and a location session in a client's home varies quite a bit. This document covers additional information for preparing your clients for a successful session in a home environment.
Client prep for remaining Baby's First Year Sessions including Smiling Session, Sitting Session, Standing/Birthday Session $49
This is preparation materials for the remaining first year milestones - important tips and notes for ensuring all expectations for your client are out up front and the session is smooth resulting in a great quality collection of images
Legal Binding Photography Booking Contract / Photography Session Agreement $149
We have had our legal team review and recommend professional wording and details included in our session agreement for booking sessions with the studio to cover so many issues that can and likely will arise over time for a portrait photographer's business. It covers many necessary details when booking clients which wouldn't even be thought of without years in the business and many client learning opportunities. Some wording is specific to a baby's first year's business but can be customized to fit your business needs. Specific details covered within this legal document include usage & copyright, liability, client media, booking, payment plans, rescheduling, cancellation, and refunds.
Complete Baby's First Year Document Collection $249
All of the above documents
Portrait Session Posing Guides Available $175each or both for $300
The Blooming Belly - A Maternity Session and Posing Guide
Maternity Photography Training - read more here
This photographer's training guides could benefit you if:
You are a maternity photographer but still new to maternity portraits
Your a DIY'r and would like to take your wife or friend's maternity portraits
You are adding professional maternity portraits into your established portrait business
Your sessions are long & lacking a flow or plan
You are uncomfortable with maternity sessions and posing
You need help on communicating poses to clients
You need a smooth predictable session flow for maternity sessions
You need flattering & timeless maternity posing ideas
You would like to know areas of concern for many pregnant mothers and what to do
You photograph portrait sessions in your client's home
You need to make the most of a small studio space or home studio
You would like to see pull-back samples from a Bitsy Baby session
Baby Photography Training - read more here
This photographer's training guide could benefit you if:
Your a DIY'r and would like to take DIY baby's photographs at home
You are a baby photographer but still new to baby portraits
You are adding professional baby portraits into your established portrait business
Your sessions are long and babies are crying
You are uncomfortable with baby sessions and posing them
You need help on communicating preparation guidelines to clients
You need a smooth predictable session flow for baby sessions
You need some go-to posing ideas that work for every sitting baby
You photograph portrait sessions in your client's home
You need to make the most of a small studio space or home studio
You would like to see pull-back samples from a Bitsy Baby sitting baby session
These photography posing guides are provided in digital format. They can be conveniently viewed on a media device during a session or can be printed for hard-copy reference cards. These are jpg cards of an actual session. It includes setups showing where I am standing and where the subject is placed in the light as well as the final portraits for the session. Basically, you are here at my studio with me virtually!!
The Workbook
The workshop notes are now available.
The Blooming Baby Workshop notes teach photographers many aspects of a successful Baby's First Year business including session session flow for all milestones.
Covers training for:
business, smart marketing, sales tips
thorough information on scheduling babies and prepping parents
transitions and posing with baby models for shorter sessions
soothing babies and troubleshooting
session prep and set-up
shooting & session flow for first year milestones
effiicient workflow and post-processing tips
Follow-up support via a private FB group for 6 months
You will receive the complete session details for maternity, newborn, smiling, sitting, and standing stages.
*****Blooming Baby Business training or products are not available for any photographers pro or non-pro based within a 60 mile radius of zips 21037, 21401, or 23456. Thank you for your understanding.*****
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What attendees are saying:
I knew that I had to attend Rita’s workshop the minute I visited her website. Her natural, organic style was exactly what I was looking for, but I had no idea where to begin to learn this artistic look. Her warm greeting in her cottage studio was so comforting and reassuring that this workshop was going to be well worth it. Rita shared so many wonderful things with me during our workshop, including how to set up for a session and keep it running smoothly, hands-on posing of babies from the first few days of life through 12 months, how to get that post-processing style that I was so in love with, teaching me how to start my business, and how to keep it running successfully. Her artistic talents and passion for teaching showed during the entire workshop. I truly felt like she cared and wanted me to be successful. Rita is so detailed and covered so many things that I never even thought to ask. I left her workshop feeling so inspired and confident that I will have a successful baby’s first year business. Rita Lawrence, you truly are amazing! Thank you so much for sharing with me!
~~April
"Rita,
Thank you so, so, so, so, so much!
The small group workshop was superb, excellent, wonderful, and so much more than I expected. I LOVED it! I would not have thought it possible to learn so much about a rather technical subject in such a short time. So much information. Hands on practice. Expert feedback. A live (adorable, cuddly, drooling) little model. I'm so pumped about taking great pictures on purpose, not just by accident! Thanks, Rita!
~~Whitney Brooks, Photographer