Name: Newborn Photography with Kelly Brown: The reDefine Show with Tamara Lackey
Uploaded: 2017-01-17T03:28:41.000Z
Duration: 13 min 21 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

Hi, I'm Tamara Lackey and on this episode of reDefine show for AdoramaTV

I speak with Grand Award winner, newborn photographer Kelly Brown, about how she

stands out in a pretty crowded genre, how she gets the inspiration for her work, why

she's built such a structured flow to what she does when she's shooting and

AdoramaTV presents 'The reDefine show' with Tamara Lackey.

Yes, you came all the way here for this talk from Australia.

Just for our little web series interview .

Thank you. You have your practice in Australia but you are internationally

known for your work with newborn photography.

Yeah, it's actually amazing. I get stopped everywhere I go saying I love

your work, and I have no idea how they see it.

You're like what? How did you know this? And how long have you been shooting?

OK, like how did you say, yes this is what I'm going to do? Not only get started in photography but moving very

specifically into the genre of newborn photography.

I had a friend who had a baby and I had been doing photography and they said, you know, would I take some

photos and I really didn't know what I was doing. I had no idea. I'd been

looking at photos on Flickr, on the internet and books and things like that

so I went along and I took some photos that I thought were great at the time.

And then you look back that, yeah, I know that.

and it was so challenging, but like, because babies are so unpredictable

that during the process I just really enjoyed it and then I started to do more. More of my

friends were having babies and yes it was just kind of a bit of a snowball effect.

Yeah and so is that mostly what you do or is it all that you do?

It's pretty much all I do now in terms of my business with my clients, so I focus on one photography.

So I have to ask you this, when you are somebody who is setting kind of a look that a lot of people are doing

now like a style and you're really showing exactly how to do it and such, how do you do that and stand out?

You know it's tough, because, you know, there's so many

photographers now and everybody is inspired by other photographers and

they are buying all their props and materials that they're using from the same places and

Anybody can come in and get these things. That's right. I suppose when it comes to

the styling of my sessions to sort of give them a look and feel that I love,

it's finding things from the unique places, you know and I'll look outside of prop shops

and things like that. I'll go to fabric stores. I will, you know, have certain

things made specifically for me or I'll be in antique shops and hardware stores

and find little things that I can sort of introduce into my shoots and they're

one offs, which is great so that means that, you know, my images will start to sort of have their own

I remember last year at a print competition, I didn't know

at the time it was your print, but your print came up and it was the ginormous

Oh, God, that was that was kind of crazy because I was

looking through a fashion magazine and there was this woman wearing a yellow

shirt and it was I think for a spring collection and there was this giant, white flower

behind her in the image and at the time I thought that would be kind of cool so I just

and then it was a couple of months later, I was going through the photos on my

phone. I saw it again and I thought I'm going to make that. I'm going to challenge myself to make a

of making the flower and it is part of one of my Creative Life classes.

Yeah, so I just got sheets of foam core and I'm not actually sure of the name

of it but it's like the underlay that you put under your carpet when you lay carpet.

Yeah and I just used that to create the flower. I created a pattern from the photograph

It was an exquisit photo too, like so well done.

Well it was different and it's funny, because, you know, as we talk about trends and things

like that, you know, it starts to sort of make other people think 'I would love to do that.'

I am going to have the giant flower photo yeah and you see that a lot. You do see that

duplicated and triplicated etc and then what about photographing multiples?

You definitely have worked with twins and triplets and, you know, how are you

finding that different than working with just a newborn?

You're trying to get them to look comfortable together, is always a challenge and for me as a photographer, you

know, I'm thinking about what it is that my clients want, the specific things.

They want timeless images, they want their baby to be the center of the photograph, you know, the main sort of

subject of the image and they want timeless images that look

comfortable of their baby and you see so many photos of babies looking uncomfortable so the

challenge with working with multiples is how do you get them together to look comfortable?

Yeah and I have twins of my own so it's always been a bit of fun

and now I get to meet other multiple mums and come up with

unique images for them. It's kind of cool.

Is it just a matter of either infinite patience which,

maybe mixed in, with like certain, you know, hey if I put them this way they seem

to calm down, is it a combination of that?

Yeah, definitely. Patience is key. I mean

you'll have one baby sound asleep and the others wide awake or what have you, so

during the shoot, like, I'll work with them however they are, like I don't sort of go in with a

plan, like I'm going to do this, this and this. Instead I just wait for the both of them

to be sleep and then I'll photograph them together and I'll look at the way that

they sort of naturally lie. How they move and then yeah, sort of work with them and

Yeah, kind of whatever approaches you, you deal with.

Yeah and a lot of the times, you know, certain things that I do are influenced by my clients because I always

want to create images that they love so I'm not going to, sort of, go in to shoot and say right I would

like to do this for you today because they might not like that so I

get as much input from them as possible about what they love and always ask them if they've

seen something like and then we'll create something specifically for them.

What is the average length of time for one of your shoots?

I tell my client's 2-4 hours but I'm sort

of around the two to 2 1/2 hours at the moment, you know it allows them to sort of come in, relax.

Subtitles ListPlay Video

Newborn Photography with Kelly Brown: The reDefine Show with Tamara Lackey

perspective

sort

incredible

process