Simple and natural newborn photography | Photography Workshop

So now the complete opposite of yesterday’s post…. Is it okay to not use props?  Of course!!!!  My client emailed and asked for very simple classic photos of his newborn.  Simple black background and white background without all the frills and props.  I have to say, I do love keeping things simple and focus simply on the baby.  That is where newborn photography began for me.  Over the years, there has been an explosion of fads and trends in newborn photography, but images like these – these will never go out of style or dated.  Classic.

The workshop is halfway full – if you are waiting to sign up, you may want to do so soon – www.jotte-workshops.com

black and white newborn photo

black and white newborn photo

black and white newborn photo

black and white newborn photo

black and white newborn photo

black and white newborn photo

black and white newborn photo

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Baby Girl

Something just a little bit different for me… I don’t tend to use a lot of headbands and hats, but mom brought an entire bag, so we definitely had a lot to choose from and this little sweetie (a bit older than newborn) stayed awake almost the whole time, but we still managed sleeping shots too.

baby hat

baby pom pom hat

baby headband

baby in car

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Outdoor maternity photo session in Baltimore

I’m going to back up for a minute and share a few images from a session right before winter.  We had such a beautiful evening……

pregnancy outdoors photo session
Baltimore pregnant photos
maternity session outdoors
pregnancy outdoors photo session

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Photography Workshop in Baltimore Maryland – includes newborn, maternity, and studio lighting naturally

Okay, yes, we officially have the new Photography Workshop website up. Please go to www.jotte-workshops.com to read about it or sign up. Lots of new things happening this year!:)

In the meantime, here are more newborn images taken with studio lighting naturally….

newborn with dad
newborn with navy hat
baby
newborn with mom
newborn in basket

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Baltimore MD Newborn… countdown to new workshop!

Newborns and more newborns – well, I will be sharing a link hopefully tomorrow to open up the workshop date for March!   the new workshop website is almost complete!  In the meantime, here’s a newborn session with Studio Lighting Naturally….

newborn baby workshops

newborn baby workshops

newborn baby workshops

newborn baby workshops

newborn baby workshops

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Wood flooring for studio photography

I’m not sure how many of my blog readers remember my first studio years ago at the 100+ year old Monkton Hotel…. it had the beautiful wide plank wood flooring that I missed so very much when I moved studios two more times.  I absolutely ADORE my new studio (http://jodieotte.com/?p=664) but I never did have those original wood floors again….. Well guess what I did this weekend?  I recreated them?  I bought wood planks from our local Home Depot and went to work pulling my knowledge of painting from my art background, and I think I came pretty close to recreating those original floors.  I cannot wait to get them to the studio this week.  I’m working on a couple new indoor sets right now that will be brought into the studio here shortly, so you will definitely get to see some new stuff coming up… very exciting!

jodie otte wood flooring studio

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2012 – Random Thoughts

Yes, it has been a while again since I updated.  I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday.  We closed the studio December 15th for our yearly holiday break and reopened January 5th.  We had quite an influx of clients for Christmas photo sessions, and I found myself working 15-hour days for several weeks.  Wow…. that was a lot of craziness!:)

I am very happy to see 2011 go.  It was a very weird year.  My husband and I both feel like something kind of like the show Lost happened when we flew back from Australia in March.  Things went very strange in our household, and we had a lot of odd experiences that the universe was throwing at us…. but, it’s now 2012, and we are looking forward to a great year!:)  I really have it in my brain that I’m going to share a bunch of fun personal stuff this month on this blog, but you know how I am – I say I’m going to post and post and then I get sidetracked when business gets super busy, but all I can say is I will do my best!

On the business end of things, YES, we will be announcing more workshops here shortly.  We are looking at March 1st and 2nd or 2nd and 3rd as our next photography workshop date.  I will be releasing more information next week.

In the meantime, what did I do for two weeks when I closed the studio?  Strangely, the first day that I was not stuck on the computer editing and placing orders was only a few days before Christmas.  I went out to finally have some alone time to do a little Christmas shopping and…… and…… these EYES…. they were staring at me….. I have to slightly blame what happened next on my clients who brought this lovely little chihuahua to the studio that I fell in love with… I realized I have never had a little dog, and that has to be a lot of fun.  So I took a picture of the puppy and texted it to my husband.   I have to blame this on him as well…..  I simply typed “I can haz?”  And he replied simply “Yes”.   HE WAS SUPPOSED TO SAY NO!   What a dangerous combination…. so I brought her home….. Meet Penny, the King Charles Spaniel….

King Charles Spaniel

What else? hmmm…. well, we decided to convert our guest room into a “walk in closet” with wardrobes all on one wall floor to ceiling, and my daughter’s room had a complete overhaul where I built shelves to go all the way around her ceiling to control her hoarding…. errr… I mean “collecting”….  (we still need to get that ugly ceiling fan out of the grey room though)….

Interior Room Designs

Lastly, I did a bit of domestic things…. and here’s the proof that I do cook occasionally when I’m not running this studio;)

product food photography

product food photography

product food photography

So now, I am going to finish editing a few sessions and answer some voicemails! Back to work!

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PA National Horse Show

I thought I would share something a little different…. Weeks back, a bunch of us went to the GRAND PRIX de PENN NATIONAL I’m always amazed to watch these horses fly. My daughter is competing 3-foot jumpers at some local places, and I’m hovering between 2 and 2-1/2 feet myself. But these jumps are 5-feet jumps… just amazing….

For the photographers, I’m shooting with the Nikon D3s, 70-200 mm/2.8 lens at 12,800 ISO.

Penn National Grand Prix

Penn National Grand Prix

Penn National Grand Prix

Penn National Grand Prix

Penn National Grand Prix

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Toddler | Baltimore Child Photography

I photographed this little boy when he was a newborn one year ago.   I have to say, he ranks up as one of the fastest moving toddlers I have ever worked with.  I could blink, and he’d disappear!  haha!  It was a challenge but a lot of fun capturing his adorable faces.

 Toddler child

 Toddler child

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Tiny Newborn | Baltimore Maryland Portraits

This little one was almost a month old when I photographed her. She was so very tiny at birth. She is still so tiny here and had the longest most bendable fingers I have ever seen…:)

curled baby

couch babyy

baby hands

newborn on chair

curled newborn

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