Newborn Twins & Multiples Photographer — Northern Beaches, Sydney

With one newborn, you have a single sleep window to work with. With twins you have two, and they rarely line up. A twin session is really a series of small windows — one baby settles, then the other, then, if you are lucky, both at once for the frames every twin parent wants. That is why we book three to four hours instead of the usual two, and why we never schedule another family after you.

Twins are also more likely to arrive early, and early babies are smaller, lighter and more delicate. Aline holds a Diploma of Early Childhood Education and spent seven years in NSW early-childhood rooms before the studio. She is trained in newborn posing safety and infant first aid, and fully insured. That background matters more with two babies than with one.

Every twin pose that looks like it is balancing is not. Composite photography means each baby is supported by a hand — a parent's or an assistant's — in the frames we actually capture, and those hands are removed afterwards in editing. Nothing is stacked, propped or left unattended, ever.

We start wherever the babies are. If both are settled we go straight to the together frames while we have them. If one is awake and one is asleep, we begin with wrapped solo portraits of the sleeper, then family frames with the awake twin, then move into the sets we have prepared as the rhythm allows. It is baby-led, always.

Feeds, changes and contact naps are built into the booking rather than squeezed around it. Parents of twins are usually running on very little sleep — there is a couch, coffee, and no pressure to be anywhere.

Solo portraits of each baby so they each have their own, together frames that show scale and closeness, sibling frames if there are older children, and family portraits with both parents. Sessions start from $590 + GST and include planning, the shoot and hand-retouched digitals. We review your gallery together on a video reveal within a week.