{"id":2606,"date":"2017-03-21T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T15:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2017-03-21T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T15:22:52","slug":"should-i-have-professional-maternity-portraits-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/21\/should-i-have-professional-maternity-portraits-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I have professional maternity portraits done?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure a lot of people wonder if it worth the time and money to hire a professional for maternity portraits. As a professional maternity photographer, I am obviously biased, but I did want to post two photos from my <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/pregnancy-photography\/id514590839?mt=11\">maternity portrait guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first is a standard snapshot, taken with the on-camera flash and little consideration to composition the way many belly pictures are taken.. The second photo was taken a few minutes later in exactly the same spot, same make-up and hair, but with careful lighting, pose, set-up and direction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2009\/10\/professional-maternty-photography.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-496\" title=\"professional maternty photography\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2009\/10\/professional-maternty-photography.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Larger versions below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2009\/10\/boston-maternity-photographer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-494\" title=\"boston maternity photographer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2009\/10\/boston-maternity-photographer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2009\/10\/amature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-495\" title=\"amature belly pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2009\/10\/amature.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure a lot of people wonder if it worth the time and money to hire a professional for maternity portraits. As a professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,132,170,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maternity-portrait","category-maternity-posing-ideas","category-poses-2","category-pregnancy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2017\/03\/professional-maternty-photography.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions\/2608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}