We shot it on Portra 400 medium format film alongside plenty of digital. Film is the add-on I reach for when a session is this cinematic; the grain does something no preset can fake, and nobody else in Colorado maternity offers it. The studio made the set builds possible, and the film page shows what Portra does to skin and light.

You are paying for someone who has posed more than 500 pregnant women since 2019 and can read the difference between a bump at 30 weeks and one at 36.

Lily came to the studio with a concept I loved immediately: clean, playful, straight out of a '90s Gap ad. She brought her husband and her daughter, and the three of them leaned all the way in.

Slim sunglasses, a swish of motion blur, and a 34-week belly leading the frame like it owned the studio. It did. This is a session that every mama deserves.

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