Advice for Photographers

When you’re planning your pregnancy as a wedding photographer, you have a busy season in the spring, summer and fall.  The winter?  Well, that’s fairly open.  It’s the time when we recharge out batteries (literally and figuratively), get to catch up with friends and family and re-explore our own hobbies since we have a little bit…

Whether you’re planning your pregnancy or whether you just found out you’re pregnant, you need to have a plan for how your business will continue to operate while you’re pregnant and during your first few months of motherhood as well as a plan for how much work you’ll want to take on in the future….

If you have the luxury of planning your pregnancy as a wedding photographer, you also have the luxury of contemplating how you want to approach the following situation.  If you’ve found out that you’re pregnant – SURPRISE!  You get to decide on how you’re going to approach this situation pretty darn quickly.  I’m talking about…

Knowing how long to wait after delivery and trying to determine when to start shooting weddings postpartum can seem like even more of a challenging task than figuring out when you should stop shooting before delivery.  There is so, so much to consider. After the baby is born, you don’t really get to decide when…

A lot of wedding photographers wonder when to stop shooting weddings before delivery.  Some photographers will shoot until 38 or 39 weeks – even up until the day before their 40th week while others stop by the beginning of their third trimester. Truthfully, there is no right answer as to when you should start your…

Remember how we talked about the “what if’s” and how to prepare for them?  Well… what if something happens and those fictional “what if’s” become a reality and you have to put some of those plans in place?  It’s never a happy thing to discuss, but pregnancy loss is a reality for about 1 in…

When you’re an expecting wedding photographer, you have a lot to consider and it starts, well, right away.  Shooting weddings in the first trimester is interesting.  Some might argue that it’s actually the most challenging time for a photographer – hell, some say that it’s the most challenging trimester over all for everyone.  These are…

When you’re a pregnant wedding photographer, shooting weddings in the second trimester is typically the easiest for most wedding photographers.  The second trimester of pregnancy typically is the most enjoyable of the trimesters.  Your baby bump is still small enough that you’re moving with ease, the morning sickness typically lets up and the exhaustion has…

Shooting weddings in the third trimester can be so incredibly challenging physically and emotionally.  You’re, at this point, a very pregnant wedding photographer who is getting ready to bring a baby into this world and yet you still have an editing queue a mile long, the nursery isn’t ready yet and you haven’t put any…

When you’re pregnant, it’s easy to get scared by all the information out there.  Hell, you log onto one “mommy group” and within hours you’re petrified of things you didn’t even know existed before you logged in.  There’s a lot of scary things out there and you don’t want to dwell on all of them…