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Canvas is canvas, right? I mean, you see ads for printing your photos on canvas just about everywhere – from Walgreens to Costco and Shutterfly to Canvas Online companies. Some have promotions where you can get your photos printed on canvas for pennies on the dollar! So, what are the types of canvases and what […]

How are digital newborn images created? It’s the magic of Photoshop – and at Kimberlin Gray Photography, we do it best!

If you have investigated newborn photographers, you might have seen some of them say “newborns can only be photographed in the first week or two” or “newborn sessions are best held between 5-10 days old”. The reason for this is that newborn babies in the first couple weeks of life are still very womb-like. They […]

It’s hard to believe, but it has been 10 years since I began taking photos of families and babies here in Hampton Roads! The very first family that I photographed was my doula, Amara, and her husband and four children. I joke that it was “trial by fire” because her family had children in all […]

Want to learn how to use your camera?  Let’s be honest: your “big camera” is stuck in auto mode (you know, the dial is set on that green box because the other dials and buttons look SOOO complicated)??  Most of the time, you just reach for your phone because figuring out how to actually use […]

5 years ago, I shot my very first newborn session.  The session was for a friend of a friend, held in my front living room, and I think I charged $50 for the session with a CD of edited images.  I had been learning about newborn sessions in online forums and tutorials for a while […]

This topic has been weighing on my mind recently as birth photography has gotten more popular and (dare I say?) ‘mainstream’. A new crop of people advertising themselves as birth photographers are opening Facebook business pages and offering this service to expecting moms every day.  When I began the process of becoming a birth photographer […]

Today is the first of a series I hope to continue called, “Ask Me Anything”.  I love to teach and sharing a little bit of insight into the world of custom portraiture is very rewarding to me.  There are the questions that were submitted.  Enjoy! How did you get started in photography? Did you go […]