Celebrate expecting a baby with amazing pictures of the pregnant mom. In this episode of Gear Daddy, Daddy Troy invites photographer Eric Doggett to give due dads some tips about capturing beautiful images of the expecting mom. From pregnant belly shots to silhouettes, Eric presents a variety of pregnancy pictures from some of his favorite photographers. Check out the video for great ideas for pregnant pics and portraits. DadLabs ep 480 brought to you by BabyBjorn.

DADDY TROY: Welcome back to Gear Daddy. I’m your host, Daddy Troy. Today I’m here with professional photographer Eric Doggett and he’s going to tell us all about taking photos of your pregnant wife or partner.

Today’s episode is sponsored by Baby Bjorn – best baby gear on the planet – Baby Bjorn.

So I’m here with Eric Doggett of DoggettStudios.com – D-O-G-G-E-T-T Studios.com. He’s got a great website. I want dads to know that they can try some of these things at home we’re going to talk about today but kind of the thrust we’re going to talk about is to hire a professional photographer like Eric to come in. It’s a really important time in your life, dad, why not spend a little bit of money – or a lot of money – and have a guy come in like Eric and have some really cool photos. Tell us what you brought into the studio?

ERIC: I brought several here. The first one is by a friend of mine, Heather Mabry. It’s a great image that you can start with when you’re trying to get ideas of shots you can take around the house. It’s like the hands over the belly shot. Great place to start. You can do this whether it’s the bare belly or she has an outfit on. Either way works.

Next up is by a friend of my named Dave Mclaclan and this shows silhouettes. It’s good to try is you have an opportunity with a strong backlit situation maybe by a window or something like that.

Next up is Shannon Cunningham here in Austin and she is great at taking pictures of pregnant women outside. Here she has the lady laying down in a field which is a great shot.

DADDY TROY: We’ve got a bit of soft focus in the foreground and the sharp in the middle.

ERIC: She’s done some processing on this image to bring the viewer’s eyes close to the belly to make that stand out.

Here are some shots by Teri Mason here in Austin. This shows something that’s really popular with pregnant women is to take something like a sheet or fabric and drape them around in that. You can have someone standing off to the side holding it or if it’s windy and you get that windblown effect.

We’ve got some other playful ones as well. Let’s look at some of those.