12:30pm-Maternity and Family Styled Shoot in the Studio with Marcie Reif

This styled shootout will take place in a beautiful natural light studio about 20 minutes from the conference and is designed to feel like a real client session. We’ll be photographing a maternity client and her family, styled with pieces from my client closet including maternity gowns and coordinated outfits. You’ll shoot right alongside me while I walk through all my settings, how I use available light, how I pose in a way that feels natural, and how I guide families so the session feels calm, connected, and fun. My goal is for you to walk away with images you’re excited to add to your portfolio and a process you can actually use with your own clients.

What You’ll Learn:
-How I look for and use natural light in a studio to get soft and even light that I know will edit well.
-How I pose maternity clients and families without things feeling complicated and hard to reproduce on your own.
-How I create real connection and emotion during a session.
-The prompts I use with kids to keep them engaged and having fun while still keeping things moving.
-How I keep family sessions structured so they don’t feel chaotic.
-What it looks like to run a full maternity and family session in real time.
-How I edit images from this session, with a full editing video sent after the class.

Styled shoots are nonrefundable, nontransferable.