Focus your pregnancy photoshoot around capturing dramatic silhouettes of you and your partner. Get some shots facing each other, others with your partner’s hands on your belly, etc.
Make your own
banner that says “expecting” with your due date, or “parents to be,” then take photos standing together under it.
Take a sequence of photos back-to-back with you and your partner holding different things (like baby booties, an ultrasound photo, or a baby book), taking turns looking into the camera.
Set up your pregnancy announcement photos in the soon-to-be baby’s room for a sweet change of scenery from the standard studio shoots.
Get some expressive photos of you, your partner, and your first child (if this is your second). Then, pick your favorites and add fun thought bubbles of what you imagine each expression “says.”
You and your partner can stand far in the background, artfully blurred, with the foreground showing two of your favorite houseplants and a seedling in between them.
You and your partner can stand far in the background, artfully blurred, with the foreground showing two of your favorite houseplants and a seedling in between them.
Use your ultrasound photos in as many pregnancy announcement photoshoot ideas you can. Set them around you in the nursery, or show them held in your partner’s hands while you hold your belly. You can hang them from clotheslines or frame them on the wall, too.
You probably don’t own a tandem bike, but you can rent one. Get some fun photos of the two of you on the tandem with one tricycle standing
If you’re announcing your pregnancy during the holidays, hang a stocking for baby-to-be and take your holiday photos with the stockings in sight. See who notices the detail first when you send out your
holiday cards.
Set up a mini library of children’s books, then take photos as a couple in front of them.
Make an oversized calendar of the month your baby’s due and circle the due date in a bold color. Print the calendar as a poster, then do your pregnancy photoshoot with the calendar in-hand.
Paint letters on balloons or get letter-shaped balloons that spell “baby,” or even the baby’s name if you’re ready to announce. Hold the balloons in your pregnancy photos or use them as a cute backdrop.
You and your partner sit down in the car with a baby seat strapped visibly to the middle of the back seat. Get fun photos from outside the car, looking straight in through the windshield. Don’t forget to buckle up.
Set your dinner table for a special meal with your partner, with one extra seat (highchair and all) for baby-to-be.
Use the first baby booties you already have ready for your baby-to-be, and press them into the sand to make footprints “walking” in a line for several feet. Then, you your partner walk alongside the prints, leaving your own, too, for some beautifully symbolic photos.
Use a drone (or a very tall friend) to get some birds eye photos of you in a flowery field or on a grassy hill. Lay on a colorful blanket with your partner, get comfortable, and let the smiles loose.
