Newborn Photography Studio | Frisco Tx

There’s nothing like the newborn stage. As a mom of three littles myself, I know all too well how those first weeks fly by in a true blur. Taking the time to document your brand new baby while they’re still tiny is crucial!

Whether you pick to have newborn photos at my photography studio, in the field, or in the comfort of your own home, I encourage moms book newborn photos in the second trimester to ensure availability.

newborn sessions include…

• A detailed pre-session consult to go over everything you want to capture and how you envision displaying your portraits.

• Up to 2.5 hours of time together photographing your new baby, either in my Plano studio for posed sessions or in the comfort of your home for lifestyle sessions.

• Expertise of a photographer with 5+ years of experience who will prioritize your baby’s and your family’s health and safety.

• Use of the studio collection of freshly cleaned blankets, wraps and headbands for baby, and use of the studio wardrobe for postpartum-friendly dresses for mom.

• A viewing gallery of 35+ hand-edited images that we’ll review together in-person or via zoom at your design and ordering appointment 2-3 weeks after your session.

After the session, you’ll determine exactly how you want to display and preserve your portraits; whether it's in an heirloom album, as framed fine art prints, or tucked away as digital files. For details on session investment, please visit this page or contact me directly.

Rachel is a skilled photographer specializing in maternity, newborns, babies, children and families both in her Plano studio and throughout the Dallas Fort Worth area, both outdoors and in her clients homes. All of her sessions include access to an extensive studio wardrobe for moms and babies, custom session planning and a personalized reveal and ordering appointment after your session to pick the perfect way to enjoy your finalized artwork from your session.

Areas she serves include but are not limited to Addison, Allen, Carrollton, Colleyville, Coppell, Dallas, Denton, Euless, Fairview, Farmers Branch, Flower Mound, Frisco, Garland, Grapevine, Hurst, Irving, Keller, Lewisville, McKinney, Plano, Richardson, Rockwall, Southlake and beyond.

For more information on sessions with Rachel, click here.

The Ultimate Dallas Family Photographer Project: Designing our Heirloom Albums

There’s a saying that goes, “the cobbler’s children have no shoes.” As a photographer, in my case this refers more to family photos. Thank goodness, we have always prioritized having our photos taken. While I’m amazing with other people’s children, I know that trying to capture our whole circus on my own with a tripod is virtually impossible. So we’ve captured the images and have a handful of favorites on our walls, but my shortfall: getting the albums designed and printed. So many years have gone by, and in my busy-ness with creating these gorgeous works of art for my clients, my own images have done exactly what I caution my clients about: they’ve sat on my hard drive untouched. For years. Always lingering on my to-do list, being pushed from one Sunday list to the next. I suspect that you can relate.

While my iPhone photos are a whole ‘nother project that I’ve yet to tackle, I’m so excited that I’ve ordered my family’s albums and they are going to be gorgeous. Thick, lay-flat albums, artfully designed (by me 😀) that will last for generations. It might take a few weeks before my lab reopens to actually print them and send them my way, but I’m absolutely thrilled to have checked it off of my list! Here’s a sneak peek of a few of my favorite family albums of ours!

The first one I designed - I started with most recent and moved backward in time - is our incredible family session with Jessie Hearn Photography that we photographed three days before our big move to Dallas. She captured my kiddos and their wild-at-heart spirits so perfectly, and I included so many collages of their sweet moments together and with each of us.

In 2018, we skipped the fancy field photos and did something completely different that perfectly captured our chaos of life with three kids ages 5 and under. I knew deep down that we weren’t in an age and stage that would be conducive to capturing anything remotely practical in an outdoor session - my boys were SO WILD in this stage - so we hired a friend and fellow photographer Susan Ryan Kalina to do a documentary “day in the life” session where we did all of our favorite things as a family at home - playing outside, playing “chase” in our house, and capturing our precious LONG bedtime routine. It was so perfectly US.

This one is from our amazing session with Rebecca Gould Photography back in 2017 at the VERY end of a cold fall in Chicago. I wanted to capture our session as close to Leila’s first birthday in late November as we could without literally freezing into blocks of ice!

2016 was the year of a zillion photos, and our family album is overflowing with cuteness - from our annual family photo session, this time with my friend Vlad from Yofi Photography, and then a maternity modeling session for the insanely talented Cherise Kiel Photography from Arizona, and Leila’s newborn session with Bethany Hope Photography - a true artist. If you haven’t noticed, our family has used a TON of different photographers. I love learning through experience from the many talented artists and business owners around me, and there are so many whom I admire for all sorts of different reasons. So our photos shift in style, from more posed, to more lifestyle, with lighter edits and darker edits and everything in between!

If you’ve made it this far, I hope you enjoyed a peek into our family’s history. All of these albums will be printed in stunning 12 by 12 inch albums so that my kids will be able to soak up these sweet memories long after my hard drive (or my external hard drive or the cloud) crashes.

And if you are reading this, thinking about how many images are still crowding your hard drive and you’d like to outsource this task, I just might be your girl. Whether I use the photographs from your family or newborn photo session with ME, or you have a print release from another photographer but need help from someone more hands-on who can help you to create these family heirlooms, I’d love to help. I offer either a simpler design service for ordering your album yourself or you can work with me to custom design your heirloom album that will be ordered through my world-class professional printing lab with lay-flat pages, archival inks and gorgeous leather, linen or velvet cover options for the cover. Albums will not ship until businesses reopen (since my print lab is part of the “non-essential” shut-down).

The beauty of this service is that it can be done completely remotely, so whether you’re in Dallas, the midwest or on the east or west coast, I’m happy to work with you without any risk to your health or mine!

If you’d like more information about this service, please email me at rachelfriedman1@gmail.com.

Stay well,

Rachel

Rachel is a fine art Family, Maternity and Newborn photographer in Plano, Texas, serving the entire Dallas Fort Worth metroplex via studio portrait sessions and outdoor on-location photography.

Maternity + Newborn + Baby's First Year {Dallas Baby's First Year Photographer}

Pregnancy is such a magical time. You find out that you're expecting a baby, and you imagine what life will look like in 9 months. It get be hard to imagine, whether it's your first child about to rock your world, or you just can't wrap your mind around loving any child as much as you love your first (spoiler alert: it's impossible NOT to. Love multiplies exponentially. But I digress...). I want to talk briefly about the less than magical parts. The bloating. The weight gain. The nausea, vomiting, fatigue, aches, pains, heart burn and more. It's not necessarily the nine months of your life where you feel like you look and feel your best (unless you are a magical unicorn of pregnant women, then you can just disregard this whole paragraph. And don't tell any other pregnant women, cuz they might hate you just a little.).

I will tell you - when I was pregnant with my third child, Leila, I felt like a mack truck. I gained over 50 pounds, much of which was in my arms, face and butt, and my former basketball pregnant woman self from my first pregnancy felt like a dream. But you know what? I did photos anyway, and they are my favorite. Knowing it was *most likely* my last pregnancy, I am SO glad I captured that time. Both for me and for my kids, and especially for Leila, my only daughter. This period in life is fleeting, and while I can only hope that this will be the only time in my life that I see those numbers on the scale, I know that I'll look back and not see my size, but the wonder. The excitement for the future. Maternity photography is so special that way.

Something I loved about this session with Carly and her family is that while they included her pregnant belly, we didn't necessarily stress over incorporating the bump. She wanted to capture the special time as a family of three before her son's world was rocked.

Once their gorgeous girl arrived and everyone was fully recovered, we did an in-home lifestyle newborn session in their Highland Park home. Carly signed up for my Luxury Baby's First Year Plan, so their family planned for three sessions over the course of baby’s first year. This is so easy for my client families because it guarantees priority scheduling on my calendar and a reminder to schedule baby’s sessions as they grow!

Rachel is a premier studio and on-location maternity newborn photographer based in Plano, just north of Dallas. She serves the DFW metroplex, including but not limited to Dallas, Frisco, Plano, Addison, Highland Park, Uptown, Flower Mound, Southlake, McKinney, Allen and beyond. If you'd like to book a maternity session, please be sure to contact me ASAP, as these are best photographed between 30 and 35 weeks. If you’re expecting a baby (whether in your first, second or thrid trimester) or already holding your brand new little baby, you can book your newborn photography session either by emailing me directly at rachelfriedman1@gmail.com or by using the Contact button below to fill out a contact form.