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baby yawns happily in a wrap and basket

Baby Yawns and Stretches

Baby yawns and stretches are sometimes caught on camera. During a typical studio newborn session, we do a combination of posed and baby led posing. So while I love to use wrapping techniques to position babies in a particular pose, both myself and parents love a little newborn “do what you want” posing. My favorite […]

Newborn Studio Sessions

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First Year Membership | Maryland Baby Photographer

First Year Membership | Maryland Baby Photographer If you ever considered joining a Membership photography plan, you’re in the right place! First Year Membership | Maryland Baby Photographer, Rebecca Leigh Photography knows you may be wondering what the advantage is. Why not just schedule one photo session at a time? Well, you can. But when […]

Milestones Studio Sessions, Newborn Studio Sessions, One Year Portraits

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Photographs keep our memories

Photographs Keep our Memories

Spring cleaning a house full of toys, books, housewares, papers, and just too many things always brings me back to one idea: photographs keep our memories. Most of us will eventually donate many baby toys or other items that we no longer use. But the photographs that we have of our own childhood and then […]

Newborn Studio Sessions, Personal

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How to Organize your Travel Photos

How to Organize your Travel Photos When I go on vacation I bring my DSLR camera and of course use my cell phone for photos here and there. When I get back from vacation, it can take me quite some time to start editing my photos, but that is because I am a professional photographer […]

Travel

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Spring Portraits | Maryland Family Photographer

Spring Portraits | Maryland Family Photographer Spring Portraits | Maryland Family Photographer For some reason, Autumn seems to be the most popular season for family portraits, but Spring is just as nice. I think one reason that the fall photography season is busier, might be that clients like to use the photos on their holiday […]

Family Sessions

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10 Travel Tips with Kids

Organizational Travel Tips – 10 Travel Tips with Kids Do you love to travel but need some ideas on how to keep things organized for packing? These Organizational Travel Tips – 10 Travel Tips with Kids might help give you some inspiration to pack your bags like a pro. My family is a family of […]

Travel

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7 months Milestone Portraits

Photography for 7 months Milestone Portraits is highly recommended and is a great time for capturing your baby’s personality! Sometimes the biggest milestones for baby portraits are taken at 1-2 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, and 1 year. However, if you would like to narrow it down to just a few in the […]

Milestones Studio Sessions

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How to Choose and Download Your Digital Images

How to choose and download your digital images | Newborn Session Edition Part of my job as your newborn photographer is culling images. I go through every image to eliminate eyeblinks, outtakes, and duplicates…any unusable images. Then I look at very similar images and determine which ones are best in focus by zooming in. If […]

Newborn Studio Sessions

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Why You Should Hire a Professional Newborn Photographer

Why should you hire a professional newborn photographer? There are a few life events that can’t be redone. Having a newborn is a short window of time and if you think you want to have photos taken, it’s best to hire a professional newborn photographer. You don’t want to miss out by trying to DIY […]

Newborn Studio Sessions

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Family of 4 sitting in front of fountain

How to achieve the best look for your outdoor portraits

How to achieve the best look for your outdoor portraits is somewhat subjective. There are several factors that play a role in creating beautiful outdoor portraits. In this post I recommend what works best for my style of photography and editing style that I provide for my clients. Time of day My favorite time of […]

Family Sessions

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