Canberra Newborn Photography

Canberra Newborn Photography Timeless newborn photography session showcasing a peacefully posed baby in a forward-facing position with chin resting on their arms. The little one gently places a hand on their face, delicately semi-covered in a soft white swaddle and adorned with a delicate white halo. Set against a neutral beige blanket, this timeless portrait captures the purity and serenity of newborn innocence and is edited with a painterly finish. This portrait was captured by Bronwyn Parsons Photography, Canberra Newborn Photographer

Canberra Newborn Photography Packages

Affordable & Timeless Portraits

Experience Canberra Newborn Photography with Newborn Photographer Bronwyn Parsons, specializing in Posed Newborn Photography for babies and infants up to six weeks. We pride ourselves on offering clients a warm and welcoming experience coupled with professional photography and beautiful Newborn Portraits. We are a full service business providing Canberra families with something to suit all lifestyles. Sessions are held in our purpose built, dedicated newborn studio located in Kambah A.C.T.

Bronwyn Parsons Photography proudly supports Life’s Little Treasure’s Foundation as a volunteer photographer for the Canberra Walk for Prems Event in support of families with sick and premature babies.

Newborn Photography Packages

Canberra Newborn Photography session photo featuring a peacefully sleeping baby, gently wrapped in a soft pastel blue swaddle with a matching knitted bonnet. Nestled on a natural beige lace layer inside a rustic wooden crate, this serene image is set against a white timber floor. Captured in soft pastel and neutral tones, this timeless photograph beautifully preserves the innocence and tranquility of newborn moments. Photo captured in studio by Bronwyn Parsons Photography, Canberra Newborn Photographer.

Mini

$550

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  • Newborn studio session (1 hour)
  • 8 high-resolution digital files
  • 2-3 set-ups
  • Private online gallery featuring 15 naturally edited images to choose from
  • Swaddled portraits of a baby nestled in props
  • Couple portraits with baby (2 adults)
  • Pre-session phone consultation, planning questionnaire, and session guide
  • Digital download of your chosen 8 images
  • Inclusive of session fee ($150) due on booking
Perfect for the budget-conscious and awake or asleep babies aged 0–6 weeks, our newborn photography mini-sessions capture your little one’s sweetest moments quickly and beautifully! Your baby will be gently wrapped, with arms and legs tucked in, and posed in charming props for timeless newborn portraits. Please note: sibling photos aren’t included in these sessions.
Canberra Newborn Photography Posed newborn photography session of a baby girl facing forward with chin resting on hands, nestled in a timber crate with soft, neutral lace layers. Set against an earthy-toned background, the image embodies the timeless elegance of newborn portraits captured by Bronwyn Parsons Photography in her Canberra studio.

Classic

$800

  • Newborn studio session (2 – 2.5 hours)
  • Immediate family included (2 adults & siblings)
  • 20 high-resolution digital files
  • Private online gallery featuring up to 30 naturally edited images to choose from
  • Swaddled portraits of a baby nestled in props (0 – 6 weeks)
  • Minimalist, posed photos of babies, semi-covered in wraps (0-3 weeks)
  • Relaxed natural photos of babies, semi-covered in wraps (3-6 weeks)
  • sibling photos with baby
  • parent photos with baby
  • family photos with baby
  • Pre-session phone consultation, planning questionnaire, and session guide
  • Digital download of your chosen 20 images
  • Inclusive of session fee ($150) due on booking

This session is ideal for families welcoming a new baby and wanting digital images to preserve those dreamy early days in a calm, cosy studio setting without the stress of styling your own home. It’s designed for parents who love soft, natural imagery with a minimalist feel—think snuggly swaddles, minimalist poses, newborn skin and gentle moments with the people who matter most. This experience includes the whole immediate family and gives you timeless photos you’ll treasure for years to come. Best suited for babies aged 0–6 weeks, with a baby-led session adjusted to suit your baby’s age and comfort.

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Canberra Newborn Photography session featuring a baby boy in a serene side-lying pose, with one tiny hand resting on his cheek and the other gently holding a soft beige teddy bear. Semi-covered in a flowing beige wrap and set against a neutral-tone beige background, this minimalist posed photo focuses on the pure and delicate features of a newborn without distractions. Captured by Bronwyn Parsons Photography, Canberra Newborn Photographer, this timeless image beautifully preserves the simplicity and innocence of early moments.

Luxe

$1400

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  • Newborn studio session (2-3 hours)
  • Immediate family included (2 adults & siblings)
  • All high-resolution naturally edited digital files (minimum of 35)
  • One 20″ x 20″ framed wall print 
  • Private online gallery to specify your four preferred images for print
  • Swaddled portraits of a baby nestled in props (0 – 6 weeks)
  • Minimalist, posed photos of babies, semi-covered in wraps (0-3 weeks)
  • Relaxed natural photos of babies, semi-covered in wraps (3-6 weeks)
  • Sibling photos with baby
  • Parent photos with baby 
  • Parent and sibling photos with baby 
  • Pre-session phone consultation, planning questionnaire, and session guide
  • Digital download 
  • Inclusive of session fee ($150) due on booking

This session gives you a full gallery of high-resolution digital images to cherish forever and including your whole immediate family—no picking and choosing, just pure memories. Plus, you’ll receive a stunning 20” x 20” framed print to bring a little extra love to your walls at home.  Best suited for babies aged 0–6 weeks, with a baby-led session adjusted to suit your baby’s age and comfort.

Printed Products

Fine art canvas wall mounts start at $165
Premium metal wall mounts start at $215
Traditional framed fine art wall mounts start at $290
Acrylic wall mounts start at $400

Additional Digital Images

Single digital images $50 each
5 additional digital images $ 200
10 additional digital images $ 320

Newborn Only Gallery

Newborns With Family Gallery

Newborn Photography Session Information

FAQ

  1. Fill out our easy booking form to get started!
  2. Check your email and schedule a quick chat
  3. Secure your spot by paying the session fee, e-signing the terms & conditions, and completing a short planning questionnaire.
  4. Once everything is set, you’ll receive your booking confirmation along with the session prep guide and details for your pre-shoot consultation. 

Safety and the comfort of your baby is prioritized above everything else at your session.  We follow each baby’s lead with what they are and aren’t comfortable doing and will never force them into a pose that causes them distress or compromises their safety. Specific poses require the hands of an assistant to support a baby into position with the end result achieved through advanced composite editing techniques to remove hands post-process.

Our photographer Bronwyn, is trained in all aspects of newborn safety, having completed one-to-one in-person training and workshops.  Bronwyn is a graduate member of the International Newborn Photography Association, has 10 years of experience, is insured, registered, fully immunized, and has an established health and safety policy.  In addition, Bronwyn has completed Infection Control Training for COVID-19 with the Australian Government Department of Health and has an established COVID-safe plan.  We adhere to best industry practices for newborn safety during sessions and will:

  • never leave a baby unattended in a prop or on a newborn posing bag
  • never force a baby into a pose
  • use composite editing for poses, props, and positions that require an assistant’s hands supporting the baby
  • will always use the safety strap on the camera
  • will never put a baby inside a glass prop or inside a prop that could break
  • will never leave a sibling unattended with a newborn
  • will recommend that siblings do not attend the full session duration to enable the photographer to focus entirely on your newborn’s safety.

Newborns are best photographed in unwrapped posed positions in the first 3 weeks of life.  Apart from being very sleepy and easily settled, babies this new can hold their legs curled to the chest which keeps them modest when being photographed nude.  Less posed results can be expected in unwrapped positions (unwrapped photos are unavailable for our mini package) for older babies over 3 weeks to 6 weeks.  A newborn mini session is done with your baby fully wrapped rather than loosely draped in a wrap and can be done up until six weeks by which time most newborns grow out of newborn props.

Posed newborn photography is time sensitive. Best posed results are achieved in the first 3 weeks of life with less posed more natural results expected for babies over 3 weeks to 6 weeks of age.  We recommend booking in after your 12 week scan to ensure availability in the first 3 weeks after birth.  When babies are still this fresh we can comfortably sculpt them into the classic posed newborn photography positions you see in our portfolio.  Newborns under 3 weeks are less aware of being frequently moved and adjusted, are easily settled and are still flexible enough to hold their legs curled up to the chest in fetal position thus keeping them modest when unclothed.  This makes the experience much more comfortable for them, gives you the opportunity to pay in installments or even let friends and family know they can contribute to the cost as a gift.

We welcome older babies up to 6 weeks old with the understanding that our sessions are baby led and less posed more natural side and back positions are possible after 3 weeks.

Parents of older newborns can expect beautiful awake moments, close-ups of a newborns gaze, semi posed positions suited to an awake moving baby and wrapped sleepy portraits in props.

For safety reasons, forward facing poses require a newborn to be very asleep and relaxed.   We incorporate the same newborn props and styling into older newborn sessions, adapting posing to your baby’s level of alertness, comfort and safety.

Posed newborn photography takes place in a warm, clean, distraction free studio with consistent soft beautiful light and professional newborn posing equipment.  Posed newborn photography requires training to understand newborn physiology and safe posing techniques which is different to general handling of a newborn baby.  The photographer takes care of everything, and there is no home styling stress involved.

Lifestyle photography takes place in your home without newborn props or newborn posing.  This means your home becomes the backdrop and baby is mostly held in photographs.  It involves more preparation and involvement from parents in preparing the home and throughout the session and has a distinct disadvantage when it comes to light and controlling the environment.  

The biggest difference between these styles is where the focus lies.

Lifestyle sessions capture the family experience in the home, with your newborn as part of the overall story rather than the focus – similar to a family session but in your home.

Posed newborn photography, on the other hand, is designed to showcase your baby’s tiny details in a more artistic and curated way through with relaxed family photos also included. Think dreamy, curled-up poses, soft swaddles, and beautifully controlled lighting, while still incorporating family photos where your baby is the focus.

Newborns are curled up tight and snug in utero rather like having the security of a big hug around them at all times.  When a baby is born, that constant hug is gone and they spend that first couple of months adapting to the sounds, senses and spaces around them  When a baby is startled, experts compare this to the feeling of dreaming you are falling and waking yourself up.  A newborn will suddenly fling their arms and legs out, arch their back and then curl everything in again.  Most newborn babies will cry and wake in response to this startle reflex, otherwise known as the Moro Reflex. In a photography context when a baby is not being held by a parent, the aim is to capture variety of images to choose from, Swaddling a baby mimics the confines of a womb and is soothing and calming for them.  This enables the photographer to progress through the session with your baby calm and relaxed, weather that be asleep or awake.  

Your newborn will be unclothed or wrapped for much of the session.  Our studio is kept very warm for your baby’s comfort.  Flowing wraps and careful positioning of legs keep our little clients modest at all times.  No outfits are necessary, unless you have a special outfit or family heirloom you’d like included.

Our focus is creating unique artful images photographed with purpose rather than providing bulk snapshots with minimal difference between frames. All newborn sessions include use of our existing range of specialty sourced wraps, blankets, backdrops, hand felted layers, wool layers, prop fillers, hair flowers, bonnets and accessories. Mini newborn sessions are fast paced and include wrapped only portraits (i.e. arms, legs, body concealed in a snug swaddle) of your baby in props plus parent portraits. The full newborn and digital only packages include non-wrapped portraits (best posed results up to 3 weeks with less posed results expected for babies over 3 weeks to 6 weeks), wrapped portraits in props and a selection of family images incl. of immediate family up to 5 persons. Images are individually hand retouched and presented for selection in a private online viewing gallery. All clients receive a pre-session consultation, comprehensive session guide, ongoing communication and a design questionnaire to personalize the experience.

The luxe package includes a custom made 20″ x 20″ framed collage to hand on your wall containing four images.  Custom wall art, loose prints, matted prints or enlargements are available to purchase separately.  We don’t have awkward in person ordering appointments. The products are optional and available to purchase if desired.  We can of course help you with sizing and recommendations on products to suit your lifestyle and budget if asked but the products are totally optional with a no push approach from us.

We offer fine art print enlargements, personalized boxed sets of fine art prints in acid free mount boards, personalized artisan albums, personalized boxed sets of prints, floating premium metal wall mounts, floating acyrilic wall mounts, traditional framed fine art prints, fine art canvas stretched over a hardwood frame and budget friendly poly composite canvas stretched over a pine frame.

A session fee is a non-refundable retainer paid at the time of booking.  It’s included in the pricing above and not an additional fee. The retainer covers all pre-shoot work, including emails, administrative tasks, consultations, planning, and setting up. These amounts are non-refundable in the event of a cancellation. If you need to reschedule due to illness, we can accommodate a change with at least 24 hours notice.  Please note that additional rescheduling requests will be treated as cancellations, as we reserve your session time exclusively for you and forego income by not booking other families in your spot. 

Two adults are included in the mini package.  Immediate family (two adults and siblings) are included in the classic and luxe package.  Family photos occur in the last 30 minutes of the session.  Siblings are welcome to arrive after I have captured individual newborn photos. 

Siblings participating in the classic and luxe package are welcome to attend the family portion of the shoot in the last 30 minutes of the session.  This is a perfect amount of time to maintain their enthusiasm and to capture the connection between siblings and family.

Posed newborn photography works best for babies between 0-3 weeks old, as they are still in that cozy, curled-up, sleepy phase. While we can accommodate babies up to 6 weeks, please keep in mind that the photos will have a more natural, relaxed feel rather than the perfectly posed ones. After 6 weeks, babies grow out of props and may not be as comfortable or safe in posed positions. Additionally, older babies tend to stay awake and move around more. A wonderful alternative is around 4 months, when babies can hold their heads up, enjoy tummy time, and roll from back to front. This stage not only adds variety beyond typical top-down shots of facial expressions but also helps prevent forehead shadows that can happen when babies are unable to support their heads.

Many hours are invested into planning, designing, artistically editing and presenting your images. We do not supply RAW unedited images, as is the case with most respected professional photographers.

Many hours are invested into planning, designing, artistically editing and presenting your images. We do not supply RAW unedited images, as is the case with most respected professional photographers.

Capturing images at the session is a smallest portion of the overall service and time spent on each project.  Like all business, there are also several ongoing costs involved in delivering a service and we are unable to negotiate pricing.

Within three weeks after your shoot (a little longer if public holidays fall during that time), you’ll have access to a private online gallery to view and select your images. These images will be shown in low resolution with a watermark for your selection. Once you’ve made your choices and shared them with me, you’ll receive a download pin. The gallery will stay active for two weeks. If your package includes a framed print, please allow up to six weeks for it to be custom-made and printed. If you need your images by a specific date, be sure to account for processing times.  Please note: we are closed for Christmas and New Year, any sessions shot less than three weeks before December will not be delivered until the second week of January. 

Top 10 reasons to choose Bronwyn Parsons Photography
  1. We are a professional full service business which means we fully re-touch all images presented, photograph with a finished print in mind, and invest much more time with you behind the scenes than just providing a photo session date and photos.
  2. We invest a considerable amount of time in planning your session, talking with you throughout the process to personalise your session and ensure you’re fully prepared.
  3. Awarded the babyinfo top ten newborn photographers award in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and named by the RiotACT as one of Canberra’s top newborn photographers in 2019 and 2020,  we also have many happy client reviews available online to back this up.
  4. Our extensive experience in the technical aspects of photography and lighting means you can be confident the images we produce are of a consistently high standard.
  5. We’ve invested in specialized training, countless workshops and professional development to ensure we have the skills and knowledge to safely handle and transition a newborn through a series of poses. We are fully immunized, operate a registered business, insured, and a graduate member of the International Newborn Photography Association. Having completed in-person training with one of Australia’s most talented and best photographers, Hello Baby Photography
  6. We care about the little details, about the things that are meaningful to you.  Our design questionnaire and pre-session consultation is a two-way opportunity to share information and jointly design your session.
  7. We practice composite editing during post-processing to remove hands supporting newborns positioned on an arm, in a parent’s hands, to create the illusion of suspended slings and baskets, for outdoor and creative edits or in poses that require hands supporting the baby at all times.
  8. We’ve invested time in developing advanced post-processing skills allowing us to undertake specialized newborn skin retouching and produce a custom signature look without the use of actions or automation.  We take time to correct common newborn skin conditions post-process including baby acne, newborn skin flakes, uneven skin tones, jaundice and areas where the skin is highly saturated in reds and magenta.
  9. Our photographer specializes in newborn photography, we don’t use several photographers specializing in other forms of photography.  With over 10 years of experience and hundreds of newborn babies photographed,  you can expect safety, quality and consistency.  Our photographer consistently produces amazingly beautiful work that exceeds our client’s expectations.
  10. Our sessions are baby led.  This means you can be confident we will not force your baby into a pose they are not comfortable with, that we will be respectful, gentle, patient and treat each baby with kindness and love. Book your Canberra Newborn Photography session today!