Ana Brandt, of Anamaria Brandt Photography in Tustin, CA, has photographed hundreds of newborn babies and pregnant women in her area since going pro in 1999. In fact, she has become so recognized in her area for this type of work that her business has been steadily growing regardless of the economy. "I believe that you can't be great at everything all of the time. To be successful, you need to know how to do something and do it well," Ana explains.
For her, that's pregnancy and newborn photography! If you want to learn how to add these specialties to your own business, be sure to attend her "The Art of Specializing in Pregnancy & Newborn" Super Monday class on May 14 in Tustin, CA.
Inspired by Her Past
Ana was fascinated by photography growing up. "As an adopted child with no photos of
myself as a baby or of my birth family, I was always captivated by relationships caught on film," she says. And she believes that eventually led her to specialize in pregnancy and newborn photography after attending photography school. "I was so captivated by this 'stage' because I was never able to experience it with my biological mother--even in image form," Ana adds.
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out that I could actually do it as a profession, I knew what I was meant to do." And do it he did. By the time he was 18, Trull was photographing weddings for friends and family, and his business only grew from there. 
"We will be using different shooting techniques and posing styles to try and open the students up to a new way of thinking," says Trull about his class. "It's too easy in this industry to get comfortable in the day-to-day and use the same poses, same lighting and same locations...and lose the love for photography in the process!"
image that he wishes he had taken..."especially if they come up with something that follows the rules I teach, but includes something I never would have thought of!" 
says about her decision to specialize. That decision helped her business succeed, and she has specialized in infant photography for nearly 12 years. 
"The most important lesson photographers will take from my course is how important it is to develop your own style," adds Buck. "The phrase, 'When all things are equal, price is the determining factor,' could not be truer than in the photography industry."
"If photographers walk away from this class with the knowledge of how much it really costs to open the doors to their studios every day, they will know more than the majority of photographers today," Phelps notes. But he's not stopping there. He'll teach you how to combine fixed costs and the cost of goods sold to learn how many sessions a year must be done to break even...and to make a profit. 
