I am by no means a professional photographer, but I do enjoy taking photos. Here I am going to share some simple tips you can use to take and edit your own DIY newborn photos at home.
Professional photoshoots are great, but not always affordable. Also baby’s grow so quick. Imagine if you could do your professional-looking shoot at home. You could do one every few months if you wanted, catching each different phase of your baby’s life, without even having to leave your home or spend anything.
Here I will guide you to take your photos from something like these…
To these!
Equipment:
I used a mirrorless camera, and shot in RAW to make editing easier. That being said, pretty much all phones these days have a really good camera so you can still get good results, but editing is more limited.
For the sake of this post, i’ll be sharing how I created the DIY newborn photos in this post!
- Camera and tripod
- Blank wall
- Blanket to lay on the floor
- Adobe lightroom/other editing software
- My family (because what would a family newborn photoshoot be without this!)
Taking the photos
To take the photos is very simple:
- Make sure your baby has been fed and well rested!
- Either use a blank wall or blanket as the background so there is less distraction (I laid Olive down on a blanket for the photos of just her, and the blank wall for ones of us as a family).
- Use a low aperture to focus on people. A low aperture will blur out the background, giving the photos a professional feel.
- Set up timer/ask someone to take photos, and snap snap snap
Simple Editing Tips for professional-looking DIY newborn photos
- Crop – think ‘rule of thirds’ & crop out any details you don’t want (here I have cropped out the radiator).
- Decrease saturation to make black and white
- Create new ‘mask’ for subjects and adjust the settings circled below
If you liked this post check out my post on empowering yourself with a DIY maternity photoshoot!
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