Newborn Photography Workshop with Paula Swift- Hunt’s Photo Waltham
March 30, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Class Summary
March 30, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
- A standard zoom lens is a good starting point
- Portrait lenses range from 85mm to 130mm. Those lenses are recommended
- You don’t need a flash or any lighting!
- You will likely not need a tripod
- Feel free to bring snacks and water.
- Bring an extra camera battery and memory cards.
- As always, bring your enthusiasm and creative thoughts
Refund Policy – Classes / Walks / Workshops
For classes, walks, & workshops, cancellations and postponement can be made up to 48-hours prior to the scheduled time. Refunds cannot be granted for cancellations placed less than 72-hours/3-days before a class or walk, but you can receive a 75% credit toward a future class, walk, or workshop.
For all cancellations, you must contact classes@huntsphoto.com prior to the event. If you register for a class and do not show up, your payment will be forfeited..
Spend the day with Master Photographer, Photographic Craftsmen, Certified Professional Photographer –Paula Swift owner of Paula Swift Photography, Inc. in Sudbury, MA as she shares over 29+ years of experience as a professional photographer.
Get hands-on as you learn studio lighting for newborn sessions. While many photographers are teaching natural or constant light in this area, Paula shows how and why studio lighting is her way to go.
You’ll also learn how to prepare for a shoot, including client consultation, props and light set ups. Explore techniques to help throughout the session such as soothing and safety tips, posing for both family and baby, how to put everyone at ease, as well as lenses and lighting methods that work easily and beautifully for new baby sessions.
Take advantage of Paula’s expertise and experience to learn more about newborns and how to photograph them beautifully, using studio light properly.
About Paula:
Paula Swift, M.Photog, Cr., CPP started her portrait photography business in Framingham, MA in 2004 and then moved into a new studio in Sudbury, MA in December 2013. Paula is the recent Past President of the Professional Photographers Assocation of Masschusetts – PPAM (2021-2023), a PPA Councilor and PPA Approved Juror.
Paula was a staff photographer at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Mass from 1995-2005. Three of Paula’s images were part of a Pulitzer nomination and finalist entry in 2000 in feature photography for the photography staff’s coverage of the deadly Worcester warehouse fire that took the lives of six firefighters in 1999. Her photography has appeared in the Boston Globe, New York Times, LA Times, Esquire, People, Time, Newsweek and internationally via the Associated Press wire service
Her portrait photography has won her two Kodak Gallery Awards, a Hallmark Award, Photographic Degree of Excellence by PPAM, Loan and General Collections at IPC. In 2024, , Paula was recognized as Platinum Medalist, a Silver Medalist in 2022 and in 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020 a Bronze Medalist for her photography at the Professional Photographers of America International Photographic Competition.
In May 2017, Paula’s book Storytelling Portrait Photography: How to Document the Lives of Children and Families published. The book offers ideas for creating a strong and lasting client connection, eliciting memorable moments, finding storytelling locations, inspiring natural action and reactions, and capturing the inter-relationships between siblings and between children and their parents.
Paula was born in Newport News, Virgina and grew up Longmeadow, Mass where she first learned to develop film in her parents’ basement with her big sister Gina who is a LA Times photographer. She attended Fitchburg State University where she received her Bachelors of Science in Communications Media – Photography in 1995. Paula lives in Framingham, Mass. with her husband Chris and their three sons.
