In part one I talked about the printing step from your photographer and the questions it entails, that you should not have to worry about. The article is right here if you want to have a read. In part two I want to cover the…. shhhh….

“cheaper”

part of your considerations when having newborn baby photos taken.

Oh there i said it. Don’t worry I felt the same way as a new Mumma and I certainly know a lot better now.

I get it.

You’re about to downsize, Mum is about to go on maternity leave, life is suddenly a little more challenging, in terms of this precious little baby that you are about to meet (if you’re a first time parent), as well as financially (in this case more so if this is not your first baby – babies certainly can stretch the budget).

But they sure are worth it, see below!!!

However, this is not usually what you are even considering when you first decide that you are going to make sure you hire a newborn photographer to have photos taken of your precious baby in the first few weeks. Your likely thinking, I’ll choose a photographer whose work I like, and whose prices look ok, and that should be enough for now. Right?

Well, you need to think about this straight up, the photos will cost money yes, but you want to make sure that you pay the right person to do the full job.

The full job.

What does that mean? Exactly.

This is where you have to consider the important part and ask these two questions:

“What are you getting for the money you are paying?”

“What are all the costs for the photos?”

Ah, now I have you thinking. So you say, ok so paying for a disc/usb of images might not be the be all and end all? There’s more costs. There sure are.

All the financial considerations of having photos taken need to be considered, because you’ve really got to think of the financial side of things now (or not – if so lucky you). Paying the right person is paying them to do the whole job, as I like to call it capture to canvas, and I even created a hashtag for Adelaide Newborn Photography #capturetocanvas for that very reason. To make it clear that it is just that, taking right through to the final product. Incorporating all the costs to you.

It’s not only not cheaper for them just to provide you with the images on disc/usb, it can end up costing you a lot more.

Why?

Because you’ve seen the price of the photographer, but the hidden costs are those that will come later, once you get around to working out what you want to print and who for. How much time you’ll have to go about doing it. If you get around to it at all. Its not your area of expertise either so you’ll likely not know where to look for good quality prints and products either – but if you do more the better. So that BIG cost I am talking about is the cost of those images being damaged, going missing, or getting forgotten about it a drawer.

Let me tell you a little story….

I caught up with a most gorgeous friend of mine the other day and I was admiring the prints of her, then, newborn twins (she has two other elder daughters too) on her fridge. Certainly a busy Mumma. She then told me that they are the only prints they have, sadly. I asked why and she told me that she’d been sidetracked after having the girls, as you do, and had not saved the images from the USB to her computer. So when she finally remembered, she hunted down the USB and put it in the computer. The girls then required her attention and when she finally got back to the computer one of the older girls had snapped the USB right in half. GASP. Devastation. They tried for ages to get it to work, but it was … well toast. The photographer she went to is in another state and by then (the girls were not even 6 months old) was not even in business anymore. So, those images, which are beautiful, are the only ones she has.

I can guarantee you she wishes she had an album and more prints of her girls.

I won’t let this happen to you.

See Part 1 and 3 of this blog sequence to find out more. Interested in knowing more from me in person, then get in touch. I’d love to chat.