Maternity Photography

The Optimal time for maternity photography is between 30 and 36 weeks. If you miss this stage it’s gone forever. Before the magic becomes a memory.

A popular question is ‘Do we use natural light?’ Professional studio lighting is used a great deal in my work. However; we will use natural light to our best advantage. When we set up in the comfort and privacy of your home, studio lighting not only removes the unpredictable nature of the weather & natural light, it affords me the opportunity to spend more time with my clients, helping each woman accentuate her natural movements and expressions, imparting her own unique personality and emotion on each photograph. From a visual standpoint, I expertly controls the shadows and highlights within each maternity photographs to create visually stunning silhouettes of unmatched tonal range and beauty, elevating the unique lines of each pregnant woman’s body into an intimately timeless work of photographic art.

After your shoot, I will choose a selection of the best images from each session to go through a detailed editing process. Chosen from many hundreds of raw photographs, the selected pictures will be custom cropped to enhance composition, expertly adjusted for tonal range and completely edited to ensure flawless presentation. This time intensive (and far too often neglected) process, is just part of what separates Hope Haven Photography’s maternity photographs from other photographers work and enables our prints to be rightfully called, Fine Art.

Many of the most famous, renowned and accomplished photographers in the world today have enthusiastically embraced digital photography for its exceptional image quality, archival characteristics and nearly limitless creative flexibility. Professional level equipment and state of the art editing techniques enable a new breed of maternity photographer to stand on the shoulders of yesterday’s finest film photographers to create unique photographs that quite simply could only have be imagined just a few short years ago.

Custom printed on the finest quality cotton fiber papers from White House Custom Colour. Our Fine Art Maternity Prints exhibit a tonal depth and sheer beauty that must be seen in person to fully appreciate. Archival quality pigment inks are used exclusively to ensure you’re photos will last for generations. In fact, when properly displayed or stored, these amazing prints will last for well over 150 years!