Newborn Photography 101: Capture Their First Moments
Setting Up
A course by Lidi Lima-Conlon , Newborn Photographer
About the video: Setting Up
Overview
“Finally, you'll learn how I style the set, set my props, and prepare everything before I start the photo session. ”
In this video lesson Lidi Lima-Conlon addresses the topic: Setting Up, which is part of the Domestika online course: Newborn Photography 101: Capture Their First Moments. Discover how to style and shoot a baby’s first photo session and learn how to edit the images in Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Setting Up In this lesson, we'll look at how to set up for your shoot. We'll start by setting up a prop. We need to make sure the posing beans will be placed where the baby's head will go. The reason for that is that we want to make sure the baby's head is at a higher level compared to the body. I usually use two big posing beans over there. After that, all I need for the moment is to place my stuffer to make this prop nice and cosy for the baby. The baby's head will be going there and the body down the bottom. Now that we have our prop set up, I'll show you how I set up my bean bag. My b...”
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Course summary for: Newborn Photography 101: Capture Their First Moments
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Photography, Fine-Art Photography, Portrait Photography

Lidi Lima-Conlon
A course by Lidi Lima-Conlon
Lidi Lima-Conlon is a Brazilian-born photographer living in Ireland. During her early work as a TV journalist, she became fascinated by the visual aspects of her work and storytelling through images. Shortly after moving to Ireland from her home country in 2008, she took a photography course that served as the springboard for her current career. She began photographing everything from weddings and events, to landscapes but soon realized her talents lay in photographing families and babies.
Since then Lidi has established her own studio, Newborns by Lidi. At the Irish Professional Photographer & Videographer of the Year Awards in 2021, Lidi won both the Chairman’s Award and the Newborn Photographer of the Year title. She also gives mentoring sessions and is an ambassador for DreambooksPro.
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