The Art Of The Cake Smash

  • Author: Natasha Simpson
  • Study time: 1 Hour
  • Video time: 40 mins
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    THE ART OF THE CAKE SMASH BY Natasha Simpson

    PLEASE NOTE:
    Prior familiarity with operating your camera in Manual Mode is necessary before doing this online course
    Practical skills to create & capture joyful and messy moments of a child's first birthday celebration.
    Post-production techniques to enhance and refine cake smash images.
      Dive into my workflow from start to finish.
    (THREE Cake smashes!)
    Overview

    What will I cover? 

    PRINTED PROPS 

    How I make all my printed background props.

    Background setup & props 

    Watch me setup & run through three different cake smashes. Showing a bit of pack down as well and how I re-use props. 

    Watch a session 

    Watch me shoot a cake smash session, hear my interactions and how I work with children. 

    My Camera & gear setup

    My camera settings, lenses and essential equipment required for successful cake smash 

    Tips & tricks 

    Listen and learn.
    A full video showing Three actual clients, these are not model calls. This show you my TRUE real setups/flows for my paid work. 

    Editing

    Exploring post-production techniques to enhance and refine cake smash images.
    Meet the instructor

    Natasha Simpson

    My name is Natasha. I am a mum of two beautiful crazy kids, Ava & Riley, wife to Adam and we also have two cats.
    Photography has always been my passion. From such a young age I knew what I wanted to do. Growing up, I had a Polaroid camera that I used to absolutely annoy the crap out of my family! Needless to say, I have always loved capturing moments.
    After having Ava in 2012, I really started going for it. I photographed weddings for a few years, until I found that after capturing 100's of weddings... they just were not what I wanted my main focus to be.
    From there, I began capturing family photos, portrait work and cake smashes! I took a leap and set up my own small studio at home. I put most of my attention to capturing babies and families... Oh, how I did fall in love fast. I decided that was my calling!
    It was in 2016, after the birth of Riley, I quit my full-time day job and jumped into professional newborn photography. I dedicated my home studio to newborn sessions. My husband left his job as well, to look after our beautiful children and gave me total support!
    It was a hard few years, but flash forward to 2023 - now we have a separate, beautiful and private commercial studio in Samford Valley.
    I LOVE every moment of my day. I have captured upwards of 1,000 babies in my career so far. Now I'm sharing my passion and skills with others! This course is a complete labour of love. Designed to get your started and wanting to continuing earning and growing with in your photography career journey.
    Well that’s a little bit about me!
    Patrick Jones - Course author
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