How long of a session do I need?

Not sure how much time you need for your custom senior session? You’ve come to the right place! We’re here to help you figure out the perfect length for your photo shoot. We currently offer three slots: 30 minutes, one hour, and one to two hours.

Cake Smash Photography | Victoria Sturdy | Cambridge Cambridgeshire | Newborn Photographer

● 10-20 minutes: I offer short, quick themed mini sessions such as Christmas, Valentines day or Easter. These sessions are typically one choice of backdrop or setup and require clients to be dressed ready for their session. To make these sessions profitable they are booked with clients booked back-to-back on one day, so clients need to be on time or they risk losing their spot or their session time cut. Galleries provided tend to be no more than 10 images to choose from and packages typically are 3, 5 or 10 images. Prices of mini session range from £199-250 plus the option to add on products and additional images to their package

Maternity Portraits by Victoria Sturdy | Cambridge Cambridgeshire | Newborn Photographer
 

● 30 minutes: This half hour session is great if you just need some basic photos to document you during your pregnancy or to capture baby's milestones through their first year. You will be allowed one outfit and one outdoor location for this session. We can do a variety of poses and variation of images in this time and we’ll still get some awesome photos!

This allotted time is suitable for Solo portrait sessions, This type of photo session is quite popular with baby milestone, Motherhood sessions, and maternity. If done within a studio, 30 minutes allotted for the session will suffice. I normally to not offer outdoors – which is much more preferred by clients for family sessions– this session takes more or less an hour.
 

Newborn Photography by Victoria Sturdy | Cambridge Cambridgeshire | Newborn Photographer

● 1 hour: This session will allow us some more time to get creative. This is suitable for family sessions and Mini Newborn sessions and outdoor where you need more time to settle and pose babies and young children. It also give you more time for the children to warm up to the camera. We can add in another setup and up to two additional outfits. This is our most popular option.

A typical family session is a great example of a 60min session, depending on the number of participants, this can take anywhere from 1 to 1.5 hours.
 

Family Portraits by Victoria Sturdy | Cambridge Cambridgeshire | Family Photographer

● 1 to 2 hours: This is the ultimate Family or Newborn & Family session, including siblings. It allows for up to four outfit changes, three setup or location changes, and you’ll have time for hairstyle changes and adding in pets or friends.

Newborn session can takes as much as 2 hours or even more because you want to allow enough time for baby feeding, nappy changing, and letting the baby fall asleep. It’s important to book the shoot around the baby’s natural feeding and nap times so you can set up the best photographic situations for the baby. If you want to include sibling photos these take more take to setup and organise and persuade young children to be photographed with their new sibling. It also take more time editing family photography, creating composites of baby and sibling, as safety is the most important thing than getting the shot. it may be that the newborn baby and young sibling are photographed separately and then combined in photoshop to create a finished image. 
 

Newborn Photography by Victoria Sturdy | Cambridge Cambridgeshire | Newborn Photographer

If you have any questions about which session you should choose, feel free to contact us at victoria,[email protected]

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