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Christmas Family Photos With Santa

by admin | 2 Dec 2020 | Families, Fun, Mini Session, Products

Christmas may look a little different to normal this year, but I can certainly tell you that Christmas is FAR from cancelled.

As many family photographers, my Christmas Mini Sessions sold out very quickly. They do every year! Add that to a November lockdown and families are now struggling to get those beautiful family photographs with Father Christmas that they so desire.

Well look no further … I have the answer and it couldn’t be any easier.

Introducing my Family Father Christmas Photographs.

I have a choice of 10 different Santa backgrounds which have been shot by one of the most recognized newborn photographers in the world, Ana Brandt in the USA.

These gorgeous images are put together by myself taking either a photograph you’ve had with me in my photography studio or the favourite image you have taken this year of your children/family.

Some of the Santa pictures are more suited to landscape pictures and some are more suited to portrait pictures. But I can be here to help guide you to make the perfect match.

How to order.

It really couldn’t be simpler. Send me a message on 07850087754 or an email hello@nickibyrnephotography.co.uk to register your interest for one of my Santa pictures. Then choose the image you’d like to go in along with which of the Santa backgrounds you’d like best. Then let me do all the hard work. Your stunning picture will then be sent to you via a digital download link and the digital image is yours. You can print it, make it in to cards, share it on social media or just have it as a lovely memory.

Price

These Christmas digitals are only £10 for one, £18 for two or £24 for three different digitals.

I can’t believe how popular these digitals have become this year. I guess it’s mostly because we know that a lot of our Santa experiences will be closed this year. And with social distancing in place, visits to Santa won’t quite be the same. I know that all the families that have bought these digitals so far from me this year have been so pleased. Their children have been fascinated that Santa is holding a picture of them. It’s definitely proving to our children that Santa knows they’re on the Nice List.

Award Winning Newborn Photographer

by admin | 21 Jul 2020 | Blog, Business, Cake Smash, Families, Fun, Maternity, Mini Session, Newborns, Pets, Sitter Milestones

I wrote a blog before about the benefits about being involved with The Guild of Photographers. One of those benefits is being able to enter into the Image of the Month competition.

Every month, all members have the option to enter their images into a variety of categories. There are set criteria that must be fulfilled in order to enter. Images are then judged by a panel of 3 of their master craftsment (absolute top of the game photographers) and given a score. That score could be converted into a Bronze, Silver or Gold award depending on how high the image scored.

I’ve not had the guts to enter before. Having only started my newborn photography journey 2 years ago (Thank you Facebook for reminding me of that last week!), I am still at the beginning of my journey.

Maybe it was the effect of lockdown that pushed me over the edge – haha! – but this month I entered a few images into the image of the month competition.

21st of every month is results day and they’re usually posted at 12pm. I kept refreshing from about 11;45 just incase. I don’t think I was this nervous about getting my a-level results! But at 1pm I refreshed again and

I GOT A BRONZE AWARD!!!!!!!!!

My other images were classified which is still really good and I am absolutely super proud of myself and how far I have come in my journey so far.

So I am now an award winning newborn photographer.

Award winning newborn photographer sutton coldfield

If you’re a photographer and would like to become a member of The Guild of Photographers, my referral link below will get you a discount! https://photoguild.co.uk/r/5CB4pa

Great to take advantage of their special offers, competitions, advice and discounts with a variety of industry suppliers.

Your Perfect Newborn Competition

by admin | 6 Jul 2020 | Blog, Business, Fun, Newborns, Uncategorized

Last month I had an e-mail encouraging me to enter into the Your Perfect Newborn monthly competition. I was so hesitant at first as I’ve not entered any competition before.

In all honesty, it’s scary. Like GCSE exam day and results day scary. But I put on my big girl pants and submitted an image for the theme ‘Family’.

Today, the results went live. I didn’t win, there can only be one winner. But I am in their featured photographers with my entry photo up. So to me, that’s a huge complement. Click the link to see my image!

Family Collection

When your images get published in Vogue

by admin | 29 Jun 2020 | Blog, Business, Fun

Being in the photography industry is tough. I know lots of different industries are tough but the arts is particularly tough as it’s so subjective. There’s no right or wrong. When I used to teach, I would be observed and told how/where I could make improvements to be better so I’ve been trying to find something like that in my industry. That’s when I came across Vogue image of the day.

Vogue offer the opportunity to showcase some excellent photographers from across the world in their image of the day feature. You get two days a week to submit two of your images. Then, they’re either accepted or declined. There’s no feedback, unlike competitions with the Guild, and you don’t necessarily know what they’re after. But … finally … after a couple of weeks (when I remembered haha) I have had an image accepted!!!!!

To say I’m over the moon would be an understatement.

I literally could not believe it when I saw it had been accepted!!!! There is it, with the Vogue logo on. My heart is still pounding as I write this.

And what a great first photo to have been accepted by Vogue too – from my visit to Zambia as a teacher through Connecting Classrooms and I was fortunate enough to visit the breathtaking Victoria Falls.

How To Get Those Cute Pictures of Newborns During Lockdown

by admin | 12 Jun 2020 | Blog, Fun, Newborns, Sessions

My maternity leave finished in April and just as I was planning to be returning to the studio, we went into lockdown. I was so looking forward to welcoming beautiful babies into my studio again after being on my maternity leave for 8 months.

But such is life. We have our health and that’s all that’s important.

Being stuck at home with itching editing fingers got me thinking … digital composites! I offer them within my studio newborn sessions anyway so it would be something that I could offer to my newborn clients while we wait until we can safely open for their photoshoot.

I’ve got a lot of requests and I am absolutely made up that so many people really love these images. The digital backdrops I use are from the Luisa Dunn collection of digital backdrops. Her work is stunning for sure. She loves floral, pastel, colour and earthy tones so her backdrops fit perfectly into my newborn photoshoot galleries. There are hundreds to choose from and I always guide my clients to her website https://www.luisadunnphotographyshop.com so they can choose the backdrop (or selection of backdrop if they can’t narrow them down!) they like.

They’re incredibly versatile too. For example, this same backdrop was changed to suit it’s baby. Arthur was in the original brown tones, Reggie – who is a Rainbow Baby – has his rainbow coloured, Lenny had blue tones and then Chloe had pinks and purples to match the other composites I did for her.

newborn portraits baby photographer sutton coldfield

These sweet digitals show all the babies off perfectly in a beautiful surround. Almost like we were able to do the real newborn photoshoot in my Sutton Coldfield studio!

There are, of course, lots of different backdrop styles to choose from. Here are a few others I have used both in lockdown and also in my newborn sessions.

After my Facebook link advertising these digital composites was shared, a lady from NCT Sutton Coldfield contacted me and wanted to share my work too! Absolute honour! It’s such an incredible feeling when an organisation supporting new mothers reaches out to you like that. And it was a pleasure to work with some new NCT families too.

So if you have had a baby during the coronavirus lockdown of 2020 and would love to have a special picture like these, please get in touch! Or if you know of anyone send them my way 🙂

Rome wasn’t built in a day … but my website was!

by admin | 8 Jun 2020 | Fun, Uncategorized

So … here it is. My first actual tester blog post since finishing my website.

There’s bound to be some glitches in the website but if you could all have a look and let me know your thoughts that would be lovely.

I’m so glad I found this website builder, very easy to use for someone who’s not great at coding (and by not great I mean absolutely have zero clue).

Website will go live next week – officially on Facebook.

Until then … I will hope to write a few blog posts to keep me entertained 🙂