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Hair & makeup, on-site
Done by Anna Vela in your studio chair, 45 minutes. You arrive without a shred of preparation.
Booking now — Aug, Sep, Oct 2026·Tempe Studios, Sydney
You will never be
pregnant like this
again.
The window for maternity photography is 28 days — weeks 27 to 33. Bump fully shown, energy still here. Miss it and there is no second take. I run one session a day, three days a week, in a private Tempe studio. Hair, makeup, designer gowns, your husband in the frame — all of it included. From AUD $1,300.
Sydney · TempeFrame 04 / 32w
— The math, honest
The window is 28 days long. Move the slider and find yours.
12 w↑ ideal window 27 — 3340 w
Your week
28
in the ideal window
My recommendation
You are inside the perfect window. Book in the next 7 days to lock in the date you want.
Either way, the math is the same: this season runs out. Once the gallery is delivered, the photos hang on the wall for 30+ years. The cost is one weekend of takeaway sushi spread over 36 months.
— Six things in every tier
You arrive. We carry the rest.
Most studios charge you a session fee, then upsell the retouched frames after the shoot. We don’t. The price you see is the price you pay. The wardrobe, the makeup chair, your husband in the frame — in every tier, no exceptions, no add-ons.
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Forty designer gowns
Sizes 0-20, all on hand the day you arrive. We pre-pull 6-8 based on your style call.
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Husband in every frame
No surcharge. He gets his own coffee, his own couch, his own moment in the photographs.
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Older child welcomed
Bring her, ten minutes of her in the frame, the rest is you. Second-pregnancy mums book this most.
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Sneak peek same evening
Five favourites in your inbox before you go to sleep. The first one is always the one you keep.
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Magazine-grade retouch
Edited like a Vogue spread, hand-by-hand, not a single AI shortcut. Delivered in two weeks.
— The investment
Three tiers. No upsells.
$300 reserve fee secures your date. Final balance the week before. Hair, makeup, gowns and partner photos are in every tier. Always.
Tier I
The Story
60 min · 2 looks
$1,300AUD
The essentials. One hour, two gowns, fifteen retouched frames. You walk in, you walk out, you are framed.
- —Professional hair & makeup
- —Designer gown wardrobe (2 looks)
- —Husband in frame
- —15 retouched frames
- —Same-evening sneak peek
- —Two-week gallery delivery
64% choose this
Tier II
The Editorial
90 min · 4 looks
$1,600AUD
What Vogue would do if Vogue did your maternity shoot. The most-chosen tier. Pre-session styling Zoom included.
- —Pre-session styling Zoom (30 min)
- —Professional hair & makeup
- —Designer gown wardrobe (4 looks)
- —Husband & older child included
- —30 retouched frames
- —Same-evening sneak peek
- —Two-week gallery delivery
Tier III
The Cinema
2 hr · 6 looks
$1,900AUD
Two hours. Six looks. Fifty frames. A private cinema reveal in-studio when the gallery is ready. Everything matters.
- —Everything in The Editorial
- —Two-hour session, 6 looks
- —50 retouched frames
- —Private cinema reveal screening
- —Printed fine-art keepsake (8x10)
- —Frame & wall art consult
$300 reserve · refundable until 48 h before · final balance via Stripe
— The honest guarantee
If your sneak peek doesn’t make you cry on the right side, your reserve fee comes back.
We have used this guarantee five times in seven years. Three of those mums later re-booked for second pregnancies. It is not a marketing line. The deposit comes back via Stripe in two business days.
— Real Sydney mums
Not models. Mums like you.
“I came in 33 weeks. Swollen, exhausted, certain no one could make me look like the photos I’d been saving for months. She did. I cried when I saw the gallery.”
“Within ten minutes it felt like a spa day. The makeup, the gowns, the way she positioned me — I have never looked at my own photos and felt this beautiful.”
“The husband shots are now framed in our hallway. Tom looks at them every morning. So do I.”
“I had my eight-month-old in the frame for ten minutes and now those are the photos my mother in law has on her phone home screen.”
— From inquiry to wall art
Four steps. No hidden ones.
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The style call
15 min · Zoom
Free. We talk through your week count, who’s in the frame, the gowns you’re drawn to. No pressure, no script.
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Studio day
90 min · Tempe
Hair and makeup arrive with you. Wardrobe pre-pulled. Husband couch ready with coffee. One mama at a time.
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Sneak peek
Same evening
Five favourites in your inbox before you sleep. The first one is always the keeper. You forward it to your mum.
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Full gallery
Two weeks · private link
Retouched, hand-edited, delivered as a private online album. Optional canvas consult if you want walls.
— Availability
I run three sessions a week.Here’s what is left.
Real numbers, updated this morning. The dot count is the spots you can still claim. October is fully booked — click November to join the waitlist or jump on Aug if you are 27–33 weeks now.
— Quietly answering
The questions you didn’t want to ask out loud.
The sweet spot is 27—33 weeks. Bump fully shown, energy still here. Book by 22 weeks to lock in the date you want — sessions fill 4—6 weeks ahead.
Yourself. Hair and makeup are done on-site. The wardrobe holds 40+ designer gowns in every size and shade. We pre-pull six the morning of based on your style call.
Included in every tier. No surcharge. The husband couch has coffee, music and a copy of the latest issue of Monocle. The older child gets ten minutes of frames, then plays in the green room.
Most clients say the same thing in the first message. By the second outfit you forget the camera is there. I direct every pose. The studio is private. We never run more than one mama at a time.
Tempe Studios, 637 Princes Hwy, Tempe NSW 2044. 20 minutes from Sydney CBD with free on-site parking. The studio is a private floor — no other shoots happening when you are in.
$300 reserves your date and is deducted from the final invoice. Stripe, Apple Pay, Google Pay or direct bank transfer. Final balance settled the week before.
If your sneak peek doesn’t make you cry on the right side, your reserve fee comes back via Stripe in two business days. Used five times in seven years.
Yes. Many do. There is a couch, a coffee machine and a cinema-grade reveal screen for the moment you see the first peek.
— Who runs the studio
Kateryna · Tempe Studios · 2026
I am Kateryna.
I have photographed 500 Sydney mums in seven years.
I shoot from a small private studio in Tempe, three days a week, one mama a day. I do not run group sessions, I do not do bulk weddings on the weekends, I do not outsource the retouch. The reason the price is what it is, is because I am the only person who touches your photos — from the morning chair to the two-week delivery.
I learned this work in Odesa as an assistant to a fashion editor in 2014. I moved to Sydney in 2019 with a single Canon body and a wardrobe of six gowns I bought from a stylist who was retiring. Today the studio holds forty pieces. I still shoot on the same body, retired only the lens.
500+
Sydney mums photographed
7 yrs
in studio (since 2019)
2 h
average reply during Sydney daytime