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Maternity Session + Posing Guide
Everything you need to plan your maternity session, plus 50 poses for the studio and for beaches, fields, and harbors across the South Shore. Fill out the form and your download appears right away.
Written by Chris McCarthy, photographing South Shore maternity sessions since 2014.
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Part One · Plan Your Session
- ✓Choose your session: Three maternity sessions, studio or on location, and what every session includes.
- ✓When to schedule: Why 28 to 36 weeks is the sweet spot, golden-hour timing, and what happens if the weather turns.
- ✓Studio or outdoors?: The private Rockland studio, South Shore beaches and fields, or a little of both.
- ✓What to wear: Flowing gowns and rental options, fitted fabrics, a casual second look, and four outfit ideas.
- ✓What to bring + what to expect: A session-day checklist and how we bring in your partner and children.
Part Two · 50 Poses
One pose per page, with what it is good for and two tips to make it work.
- Standing10
- Movement + Fabric8
- Seated + Reclining8
- With Your Partner10
- With Siblings + Family8
- Details6
Pose illustrations are AI-generated reference images created to show each pose clearly. They are not photographs of South Shore Photography clients.