Newborn photography Qs

[krystee]

How much did you pay? And what did you get for that? And if you happen to live in the Chicago area, please feel free to share who you used!

I am pinning some newborn photography ideas (yes, I know I have plenty of time!), and I start looking up prices of local photographers and practically keeled over. I may skip a traditional newborn shoot and just book a family mini shoot instead.

[bowies]

I think we paid around $300 and got a few prints and 8 digital images with print release. I'm not in Chicago.

Be aware that most photographers will not do mini sessions with a newborn. Newborn photography is a whole different animal than family sessions.

[ginkgoleaf]

Our announcement pics were from the ones they took at the hospital. Almost all out other family photos have been done by Mia at Mia Ink out of lindenhurst. She has beautiful grounds at her house, covered bridge, water wheel, fields, plus a full studio. She's on Facebook or at www.miaink.com.

Not sure what she charges for newborn sessions. I think we pay around $150ish for other sessions which include edited photo cd and copyright release.

[Pilsy]

$150

Unlimited time with the photographer, CD of images (prob had 30 I liked)

It would have been $300 had I not asked for a deal; ended up paying $300 total for newborn and maternity.

I found her through the local photography school. Great school, recent grad. She was excited for the experience, and I felt like I got an amazing deal.

[krystee]

This is giving me hope! The places I was looking at were $1,000 for sitting fee plus CD with images.

[Deleted]

What does the hospital you're delivering at use? We didn't end up going that route, but I don't think it's too expensive. Maybe $150?

[Deleted]

$300 for 15 digital images. I wanted someone I didn't have to buy prints from.

[jm1982]

I'm in the Chicago area. We haven't done ours yet (baby is due in January), but we went with a package of $950 for newborn, 6 month, and 1 year, including digital high res images with rights for each session. Here's the photographer's website -- www.abbyevansphotography.com

[linz]

I'm paying $250 for a lifestyle session-at our house rather than studio. We get cd with copyright. Cant remember how many pics.

[biogirl21]

We paid $100 for the sitting fee and $1500 for some prints(super nice, not just paper), an album of all of them, some mini albums and all the pics in a thumb drive. It was definitely a splurge. I love our pics though.

[starlily]

$250 or 300. It included 3ish hours of shooting at our house, 20 edited digital images of our choice with printing rights on a flash drive, and an 11x14 portrait on canvas. The photographer also brought props and backdrops.

[scribellesam]

$300 for a 1-hour session and all images on a disc. We used the same photographer for DS1 and DS2, and have used her for a couple family portrait sessions as well. I've always been very satisfied with her work. Similar photographers in our area of SoCal charge $400-600 for the same services.

[nabum]

$425 for a lifestyle session at out house and all images on disc w rights. We are in So Cal.

[babyrn]

We got a package through our photographer that was $1000 for 6 photo shoots: maternity, newborn, 3 month, 6 month, 9 month, and 12 month. So we paid $200 a session and the last one was free. We got a CD with all the digital pictures and printing rights.

[azurely]

We paid $300 for our newborn session. It includes 20 images with copyright release. We also added on a 6 month session for the babe and 1 year session with H and I, those are about $190 each since it's a package deal.

[Jalapeñomel]

Oct 26, 2014 21:07:22 GMT -5 krystee said:

This is giving me hope! The places I was looking at were $1,000 for sitting fee plus CD with images.

This is what it costs here. We did not do them.

[changedname]

I paid $200 for 2 hours and a disc with all the images.

The first photographer I found was $450 plus minimum purchase of $350 and no disc, only prints. She told mw the average spend is $1600. I then looked on CL and found my girl.

It's worth shopping around and trying to find someone who is trying to start their business.

[ssmjlm]

I believe I paid around $500 for a session at our home with unlimited photos and a mpix print credit (to use on anything at the site).

For me, the one thing I wanted was someone who did in home. I knew my anxiety about being a FTM plus BFing would be too much to try and do in a studio. Also I wanted some photos in the nursery and some with the dog.

I actually just did a FB blast asking for recs. There's a local photog everyone loves, but she wanted $1k for a studio newborn shoot. And given what I received after a mini-shoot w/her, she's not worth $1k.

[bananapancakes]

Ours was $250 for a lifestyle type session at our house (no funny props or weird positions). He was with us for about 6 hours and it included a CD with about 100 or so images. No prints.

We just did 6 month photos with the same photographer for $150, about 2 hours of outdoor photography and CD with images.

[vtdiamond]

I'm jealous of some of the low prices people have gotten on these!

I live in the suburbs of Boston and will be paying $450 for a lifestyle type session at our home. It will include the session fee and USB drive with all the images and printing rights. There was no extra charge for twins vs. 1 baby

This was one of the better prices I could find, all the others were insanely expensive and didn't include a disc or printing rights for the pics.

[mellimel19]

We went through the photography studio that had a partnership with the hospital where I delivered. I think the session was $100, and the cd of images was an additional $150. She did a great job. DD was screaming and crying the entire time, but you would never know it from the pics.

[stacyb1983]

Oct 26, 2014 20:49:29 GMT -5 krystee said:

How much did you pay? And what did you get for that? And if you happen to live in the Chicago area, please feel free to share who you used!

I am pinning some newborn photography ideas (yes, I know I have plenty of time!), and I start looking up prices of local photographers and practically keeled over. I may skip a traditional newborn shoot and just book a family mini shoot instead.

I tried this when C was born. It was an epic disaster. H had a meltdown and the baby was just not into it that day. By the time our hour was up we got 1 semi decent photo of C.

We rescheduled a full newborn session a few days later with a different photographer. C was still not into it, but we  got some great  photos because the photographer scheduled up to 3 hours with us. The photos we loved were taken at the 2 1/2 hour mark.

For H's photos we paid about $500. We had so many great shots I bought more prints than I  originally planned. I only bought one digital image for our Christmas card because the prices were crazy high.

For C we spent $400. We had a different photographer than we used for H. The $400 covered the 3 hour session and all of the digital images. I printed at Costco and got the upgraded printing, they turned out great.

[magpie]

our hospital had a company that came into the room and did a session for free if you wanted it. The pictures were good. Not as cute as they would have been at home, but still very nice, albeit a little standard in terms of poses/setups/etc. They wanted insane high prices on the prints/digitals, so we didn't buy any prints or digitals. Eventually though, they sent us a crazy deal around her first birthday where we got the whole CD of edited, digital images for $50. We took them up on that

[SJ]

Sending you a PM!

[chicago]

Whereabouts in Chicago are you? I have someone I like in the northern suburbs. She is $400 for 3-4 hours in her home studio with 25-30 edited photos, all the rights. PM me if you want more details.

[lucky3]

I'm in the south suburbs and paid $650 for newborn 3 6 9 and 12 plus full rights to pictures. PM me for details.

[grosnl19]

We paid 150 Euro total, which included the rights to 40 pictures of the 90 she had taken. I couldn't stomach $1,000 for photos...