Baby Safety and Posing for Newborn Photographers with Kelly Brown

Make safety a priority and put your clients at ease.

Baby Safety and Posing for Newborn Photographers
  • 29 video lessons
  • 9 hours and 30 minutes of class content
  • Streaming access on desktop and mobile browsers
  • 100% satisfaction guarantee
Parents hire newborn photographers to document every detail of their babies at that brief instant at the start of their lives when they are tiny, bright and new to the world. Newborn photographers can feel a lot of pressure to fulfill parents’ wishes. In the rush to capture the perfect shot, it’s easy to forget that the subject of these photos are incredibly fragile little beings. Safety should always come first. Join Kelly Brown for tips on handling newborns safely, reading their moods and needs, and prepping your studio for a newborn shoot. 
You’ll learn:
  • Safe posing techniques
  • How to operate a safe environment in your studio and on external shoots
  • How to understand newborn behavior
You’ll discover how to sanitize your studio, choose cleaning products and plants with the newborn’s health in mind, and make sure that your furniture and equipment meets newborn safety standards. Kelly will also focus on safely posing and handling a newborn during the shoot. She will teach you how to execute poses like the Potato Sack, the Froggy pose, and other advanced techniques used to create composite images. You will learn about newborn anatomy and the environment they come from to help you better understand what they are capable of doing in a shoot setting: how to avoid imbalance, overheating, and injury. Finally feel capable of communicating about newborn safety. If parents feel that they can trust you around their child, they will be put at ease and remember the experience of the shoot more fondly.

Course Instructor

Kelly Brown

Kelly Brown

Kelly Brown is a portrait photographer, specializing in newborn and baby portraiture. Her nurturing desire to capture her family as it grows led to launching her business Little Pieces of Photography in 2005.

Baby Safety and Posing for Newborn Photographers with Kelly Brown is rated 4.8 stars by 58 students

  • Crystal M. Oct 18, 2019

    Thanks so much, I loved this course!

  • Tatiana S. Sep 13, 2018

    A wonderful resource for any newborn photographer. To the reviewers that complain about the slow pace of the course, it is important to note that this is the nature of newborn photography. You cannot effectively teach or carry a newborn photoshoot quickly! These are tiny new humans that need a lot of patience and soothing, so if you are impatient to even learn how to do it, then probably you should rethink your genre.

  • Lindsey W. Mar 9, 2018

    Kelly Brown is one of my favorite teachers not just in newborn photography but photography and learning in general. Her patience is inspiring and she makes this job seem so much more enjoyable and installs passion in you to improve and be the best you can be! Kelly is an expert at what she does and is great at communicating how she does it. I have taken the Creative live baby bootcamp class which is actually what got me to want to go into newborn photography! Ive also purchased a few of her newborn posing courses and I love them all. I literally own my new blossoming little career to Kelly! I love creative live, I have just learned so much from these courses. They are constantly giving out new classes that are so affordable and such amazing resources for any photographer or professional. I am so lucky to have discovered them and Kelly Brown. Thank you Kelly and creative live!

  • Kimberly T. Dec 8, 2017

    So thankful I was recommended this class before starting this genre of my business. Kelly has completed prepared me to start this area of my business confidently and educated on many aspects of safety, posing, and the business side. I am actually cringing thinking I could have missed this course and photographed a newborn, not having this information! And I love knowing my clients will feel as confident and comfortable as I am knowing I will photograph their little one's with their safety as my number one priority.

  • Michael . Nov 17, 2017

    This class ought to scare the Dickens out of you. If you've never planned for safety and liability in your studio, this class will teach you about it. Most photographers just start a business and plow their way through it fixing problems as they occur. If you are really sharp, you had a consultant or mentor help you set up your business. However, the most anyone ever told me was, "make sure you have insurance". Which is good advice, but not very satisfactory, nor will it eliminate your personal, pecuniary liability if there is an accident or culpable negligence. This class really goes over things you absolutely should consider and address. Needless to say, every point doesn't apply to everybody, but there is a lot of important material here that needs to be heard. The presenter could be more succinct, but I imagine she wanted to be overly thorough due to the nature of the information. Excellent class, highly recommend. Never seen another class like it. Many, many teaching professionals should have gone over this information in their classes and they don't. Get it all in one place.

  • Summer M. Oct 18, 2017

    Very helpful course. I learned a lot!

  • O. Feb 17, 2017

    absolute must for all newborn photographers, love Kelly Brown :) highly recommended !!!

  • KRISTINA R. Feb 16, 2017

    Thank you Kelly. This course was very useful and easy to understand your course.

  • Lera B. Feb 14, 2017

    Incredible course. A must-see for every newborn photographer. Kelly is an awesome teacher. I definitely recommend purchasing this class to be able to go back and review different sections as needed.

  • Hester W. Feb 7, 2017

    This course is amazing! Thank you Kelly, it was easily understood.

  • A. Oct 14, 2016

    Ilike this kind of course with kelly Brown!!1 Amazing!!!

  • U. Aug 2, 2016

    Kelly is such a fantastic instructor! This class is wonderful for both beginners & intermediate newborn photographers to improve their posing and keep safety number one. Not only does Kelly teach you step by step how to safely pose, she also explains why she poses the way she does - which is so important. This class is a great resource to watch over and over again until we are all masters!

  • Tara P. Jun 26, 2016

    This course is essential to anyone thinking of photographing these sweet infants. I wish it was mandatory. I loved how the class was set up with instruction mixed with actual posing sessions. I can't believe everything I learned in just 2 days.

  • Ana A. Jun 26, 2016

    One of the best online workshops I've had. 100% recommended

  • Lizi Richards F. Jun 24, 2016

    When dealing with little ones, it's a necessity to know how to keep them safe. There are so many scary trends that people try to do without knowing the proper way to keep the baby safe. SO GLAD I watched this.

  • Joy M. Mar 16, 2016

    This was a fabulous class! I knew I needed to take this class so that I could feel a lot more confidence and know when something is not safe and should not be done. Thank you Kelly!

  • gina D. Mar 14, 2016

    As always i am amazed with you as a teacher thank you so much :)

  • Isa S. Mar 14, 2016

    I loved this workshop and helped me with some poses i've never try before 'cause I didn't know how to! Thank you Kelly and CreativeLive. Im wondering whats the name of Kelly's Facebook group, Im searching but can't find it, could you post the link please? Thanks!

  • Stephanie R. Mar 14, 2016

    This is an amazing and important course. I was able to be a part of the audience and I feel like I walked away with a wealth of knowledge, new friends and such an appreciation for Kelly Brown and everyone over at Creative Live!!

  • Mariana S. Mar 13, 2016

    I just love Kelly's classes. She's an inspiration, both on the photography field and outside of it, as well. When she shares things about her personal life, it makes me feel that she gets it. And when she shares her expertise, I can't stop watching. I wish I could absorb faster. I also love that she emphasizes that we have to focus on finding our own style, too; to stop worrying about what other people are doing and to focus on our own path. She's amazing! (From Michigan, USA)

  • Vanessa K. Mar 13, 2016

    The first few minutes of this course I knew I had to purchase it! This is a MUST for any newborn photographer or those that add this type of photography as one of their services. Kelly is very knowledgable and a wonderful instructor.

  • Susie C. Mar 13, 2016

    An amazing course! Newbies will be learn the best way to do at this point in time and novice will maybe change the way they do a pose that maybe "safer" then what they had been doing. A pleather of great useful information. Thank You!

  • kellie J. Mar 13, 2016

    This is awesome! Thank you so much, Kelly, for pouring your heart into this industry.

  • Laura V. Mar 13, 2016

    All this information is priceless and usefull! Thank you very much!

  • Sarah S. Mar 13, 2016

    Kelly is so inspiring! She's so easy to follow through each step. Brilliant.

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