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Helped by high-profile celebrity mums on social media and the huge upsurge in women getting behind the camera, newborn baby photography has grown in popularity in recent years. One photographer who has been making great inroads in this area is Lisa Beaney, whose wedding photography business has broadened in recent years to cover maternity, babies and family portraits.<\/p>\n

\u2018Professional photography has traditionally been very male, but a lot more women are coming into photography and opening up new markets,\u2019 says Lisa. Baby photography is in an area in which female photographers have a natural advantage. It\u2019s ideal for women who have a family, as it\u2019s something that you can build around your own life.\u2019<\/p>\n

Lisa started shooting weddings in 2006 but, as she points out, people who get married usually go on to have babies so this became a natural extension. \u2018We\u2019re now doing more families and newborns than weddings, and that is partly a conscious choice and partly due to the changing market.\u2019<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Lisa\u2019s kit<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Most of Lisa\u2019s newborn photography is shot on a Sony A7R III<\/strong> with a ZEISS Batis Distagon T* 40mm f\/2 CF<\/strong> lens.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

She explains:
\n\u2018The Sony A7R III is so much smaller and lighter than my old Canon. The Eye AF is fantastic and amazingly accurate. Or I use the tap to focus feature, which also works brilliantly. You can shoot at a really high ISO with the Sony though I tend not to work much above ISO 6400 for my newborns.<\/p>\n

‘There\u2019s just something about my ZEISS Batis lenses that I find hard to put into words. They\u2019re incredibly sharp where you want them to be, but then you get a lovely fall off into that softness that just looks nicer than with other lenses. When you\u2019re spending you\u2019re own money on kit, I\u2019d rather spend a little bit more on a lens that will give me photos that look a bit different. The first Batis I ever bought was the 85mm because I wanted a really good portrait lens. Then I added the 25mm and 135mm. Now there is the 40mm f\/2 \u2013 I find that to be the ideal focal length for my newborns, and it means I can be at the perfect working distance from my subject. It also offers very close focusing so I can do detail shots of tiny fingers and hands.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Lisa\u2019s Tips for photographing newborns<\/strong><\/h3>\n