baby photographer in Chichester – Ally Berry Photography

If you’ve looked at Watch Them Grow experience before, but decided against it because you have an older child you didn’t do it with, this blog is for you.

This is Evie.

She is three and comes along with her younger brother, Arlo to all of his photo sessions. She is chatty, cheeky and adorable. She is always first to sit in the chair, and helps me out with my test shot to make sure my lighting and my settings are correct.

When we first started the Watch Them Grow experience with Arlo, we decided that Evie would also wear the same outfit in all of the photographs. This means that when we put all the photos together at the end, they will all look the same.

Babies grow and change so much in the first year, and this is really obvious with Arlo from month to month, but I’m also really curious to see the change in Evie from the very first session when she was just getting used to being a big sister, to the last session, a year later.

Photographing a baby and a three year old together is not always easy … but it is always great fun. And we all know I love a challenge!

I start by photographing Evie on her own, and then once Arlo is ready and changed, we bring him in too. Sometimes they share the chair.

Other times, Evie stands behind it!

And sometimes, I can even capture them both looking at me at the same time!

When Evie gets bored, and starts having a conversation with my Alexa, we know it’s Arlo’s time to shine … Look at those cheeks! And the posing … a model in the making!

And then, of course, it’s time for a bit of dancing around the studio … to finish off the photo session in style!

What I really love about these sessions, is that bringing an older sibling along means not one session is the same as the other. There is always something new, something exciting, something fun to brighten up the day.

And I can’t wait to see, and share with you, what the final image will look like for these two.

Are you expecting a baby? Would you like to find out more about the Watch Them Grow experience? Head over to my contact page or simply give me a call for a chat.

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Twelve months, twelve photographs and one baby!

This is Rupert, sat in his green chair the day before his second birthday.

Rupert was my first chair baby … I still remember when, a few days after he was born, his mum, and beautiful friend Clare, text me and asked to book me for a photo shoot on the same day every month for the next 12 months. And that’s how Rupert’s Green Chair came about.

Every month, we set up the studio in the same way, used the same background and the same green chair, and dressed Rupert in a little white bodysuit – one that Clare could easily buy in every size needed up to 12 months. That way, the only variable would be Rupert growing up, from one month to the next …

And this was the final result! 12 photographs of Rupert, one for each month of his life!

These photo sessions quickly became some of my absolute favourites. The first couple of months were a little tricky … one month old babies don’t do much, but by month 4 the sessions began to be really great fun. Rupert was getting cheekier every month. Check out his month 11 photo … enough to give both his mum and I a heart attack, but he was having the time of his life.

I would like to point out that safety is extremely important when photographing babies, and if it means photoshopping parents’ hands out of photographs I would rather do that. At all times, there is a parent nearby who can spot and catch the child should they need to do so.

Anyway, I was having so much fun, that I decided to offer this as a stand-alone product to all my other clients, and I am now enjoying photographing lots of babies in chairs throughout their first year. If you’d like to find out more about booking a First Year Chair package check out my Chair page here.

Babies grow and change so much, these photos are my most treasured memory of his first year. I forget how much he has changed some days, looking back shows the incredible journey we have all been on. We plan to put him back in the chair on his birthday and get Ally to capture him every year too …

Clare, Chichester.

And just like that, I am now looking forward to photographing Rupert on his third birthday in the same chair, and seeing the difference another year will make.