For Photographers

Are you interested in learning more about simple and timeless newborn photography?

 

If you are ready to follow your dream and transform your passion into your business, I can help you by teaching and guiding you on this amazing journey.

 

I will hold your hand and empower you to achieve your goals and dream.

 

I've been in business for over a decade. I grew my business and my daughter together and I wanted to do them both successfully.

 

But it was a long journey, not always easy, actually full of trials, errors and cries. Yes, I thought about quitting a few times, but thank god my passion was stronger than my fears and I never did.

The quickest way to get you started is by learning from someone who has been there. Someone who has a business you would like to have. Someone who is a few steps ahead of you.

 

I can certainly help you fast-track your journey.

 

There are a couple of ways we can work together.

 

 

 

Power Hour | £150

 

Being a baby photographer is the best job in the world, but it can be overwhelming and lonely. This type of session is perfect if you are already in business, are stuck somewhere and want a little help. You will get:

 

One-hour video call

2 topics to focus on and discuss

email me before the call to find out what you need so I can better help and make the most of your time

 

Here are some areas I could help you with:

portfolio reviews

building your brand

finding your style

client communications and workflows

marketing

natural lighting

shooting workflow

working with fussy or awake babies

camera angles and composition

contract, invoicing, business

 

These are just some suggestions if you have any others you don't see here just let me know.

 

I know 1 hour is not a lot but if something is stopping you right now, it might be what you need to regain confidence in yourself and walk away with some simple steps to take to make it happen.

 

 

 

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1-1 Mentoring in Person | £800

 

Practical Workshop Day.

 

This is perfect if you are just starting out and need to see how a session is done.

 

You will come to my Twickenham studio and I will walk you through a newborn session from start to finish. You will learn in a day what I did in 10 years so you can fast-track your journey.

 

You will have the chance to see how I pose and handle the baby and you will be able to take images for your own portfolio and social media usage.

 

I will cover all the basics of newborn photography from camera settings to camera angles and more. My style is simple and minimalist but once you know the basics you can apply it to any style you prefer.

 

You will get lunch and snacks.

 

We will discuss editing and business and I will answer all your questions.

 

£199 (non-refundable) deposit is required to book. The remaining balance is due the day before the workshop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3-month-program | £1200

 

This is the best investment you could make in yourself as not only will you learn about newborn photography but you will also have someone there for you when you need it.

 

It will include 2 calls and will cover :

 

Mindset and Finding Your Style

(understanding of how our brain works and learns, mindset, confidence, how to reprogram your mind)

 

Newborn basics

(lighting, camera setting, manual shooting, white balance, camera angles, baby safety, composition and planning)

 

In-person Workshop

(you will get the chance to see how I work with a baby and you will take photos and practice too)

 

3x30 minutes follow-up calls to ask me anything

 

Email support within this time

 

 

 

 

 

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The just-getting-through ones.

Some days, surviving is the whole job.

This one is for those, wherever you are with that today, could be personal, could be work, could be everything at once.

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Before her shoot, she wrote something I haven’t stopped thinking about.

She said seeing herself differently might help her realise that parts of her are seen and accepted, maybe even liked, for what they are, despite the internal narrative she tells herself about them.

And you know what? She is not the only one.

We see ourselves so differently than others see us.

That gap is where this work lives. I’m not trying to make anyone look like someone else. I’m showing them what was already there, just from outside their own head.

And that image becomes a print. Something to hold, not to just scroll past. A different mirror.

If you’ve never seen yourself the way others do, this is your invitation.
There is something special that happens when you hold a printed album for the first time.

Its weight. 
The texture under your fingers. 
The sound of the pages turning. 
The way the images look back at you, solid and real, in a way a screen never quite manages.

A digital file exists somewhere. 

A printed album IS somewhere. You can feel the difference.

This is a newborn album. Leatherette cover, gold embossed text, lay flat pages that let every image breathe. 

It is the final chapter of a session, the moment everything we created together becomes something you can live, enjoy and pass down.

This is why, after a shoot, a printed product is never an afterthought for me. It is the whole point.

And it is also why I am not the right photographer for everyone. If you are looking for a gallery of just digitals and nothing more, I would gently point you elsewhere. 

But if you want something you can hold, something that feels like it truly exists, something your child will one day open and say this was us, then we should talk.

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For years I have strived for minimalism in my photos. Even when everyone was putting babies in baskets and flowers and that seemed like the only way to do it.

And lately I have been reflecting on that choice even more. It was right for me then. And it feels even more right now.

Especially in a world where everything is loud, fast and AI-generated. What cuts through all of that is not a prop or a set. It is a moment. A real one.

Holding your baby in your arms. The most precious thing you will ever hold. Staying in that stillness. The way the whole world seems to shrink down to just this, the small weight, the tiny face, this brand new person who has already changed everything in you.

These are the moments I get to witness.
And they never, ever get ordinary.
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VALE@PHOTOGRAPHYBYVALENTINA.COM

07577 978246

LONDON NEWBORN & MATERNITY PHOTOGRAPHER

Based in Richmond, I work with families across London to capture life’s most meaningful milestones through portrait photography.