Describe your photography style. Makeform turns it into a pre-session questionnaire for due dates, wardrobe, locations, comfort preferences, participants, and image priorities.
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Sample prompts for your questionnaire
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Audience
Clients planning a styled studio maternity session
Format
Detailed questionnaire with wardrobe and backdrop choices
Prompt size
259 chars
Suggested questionnaire structure
Detailed questionnaire with wardrobe and backdrop choices
Due date and preferred session window
Who will join the session?
Wardrobe, sizing, and styling preferences
Choose a backdrop and mood
Upload visual inspiration
Suggested planning tags
Studio session
Outdoor session
Wardrobe help needed
Treat due date as planning context, and ask separately about comfortable movement, poses, and coverage.
Step 1
Ask
due date, people, place, and priorities
Step 2
Plan
wardrobe, timing, access, and backup options
Step 3
Confirm
review answers before the session call
Step 4
Create
arrive with a personalized shot plan
Better session preparation
Let clients explain what feels meaningful, comfortable, and inclusive before anyone arrives on set.
Collect timing, wardrobe, participant, and location answers together instead of searching scattered messages.
Let clients describe mood, coverage, movement, privacy, and image priorities before the planning call.
Show participant or location follow-ups only when relevant, keeping the form approachable on a phone.
Fits your photography style
Branch one core intake into studio, outdoor, in-home, or family planning details.
Ask about gowns, sizing, backdrops, lighting mood, and styling support.
Collect landscape, walking, travel, meeting-point, timing, and weather preferences.
Capture names, ages, outfits, desired groupings, and solo portrait priority.
Ask about rooms, light, activities, entry notes, pets, and private spaces.
Questionnaire workflow
Generate, tailor, and share the form, then use answers to guide your planning call and shot list.
Name your session settings and the decisions clients need to make.
Use your real locations, wardrobe options, availability, and creative language.
Send the link after booking with time to arrange wardrobe or location details.
Clarify ambiguous answers and build a focused timeline and priority list.
Form vs email vs generic template
Ask specific decisions in a logical order and return answers that are quick to review.
Field guide
Use six focused sections, explain optional details, and request only information that shapes the session.
Timing and contact
Collect preferred name, contact, due date, session date, and scheduling flexibility. Treat the due date as timing context, not a reason to request medical history.
People and relationships
Ask who will join, then collect names, ages, personality notes, and desired groupings only for those selected.
Creative direction
Offer a few clear directions, then pair the choice with an open answer and inspiration upload.
Wardrobe and styling
Gather outfit count, colors, relevant client-closet sizes, and interest in gowns, draping, hair, or makeup.
Location and logistics
Ask about travel, terrain, and weather outdoors; confirm arrival, parking, stairs, and room preferences indoors.
Comfort and boundaries
Invite preferences about coverage, movement, breaks, touch guidance, and areas not to photograph, with an option to talk privately.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for photographers building a helpful, respectful pre-session intake.
It is a pre-session form covering timing, participants, location, wardrobe, comfort preferences, and image priorities. It turns a booking into a creative brief while letting the client state what they want or prefer to avoid.
Send it after booking and before the planning call, leaving time to act on wardrobe, location, access, or participant details. Give a response date, then confirm changes closer to the session.
Ask for it as optional scheduling context and explain why. Keep it separate from comfort preferences. The questionnaire does not need diagnosis, treatment, or medical history.
Ask about outfit count, planned clothing, colors, coverage, and interest in a client closet. Request sizing only for garments you provide, and include coordination and styling-help questions.
Group questions by decision, use concise choices, and reserve long answers for personal context. Show sibling, pet, location, or wardrobe follow-ups only when relevant.
Yes. Add a file upload and ask what they like about each reference, such as lighting, mood, pose, wardrobe, or location. That explanation makes each image actionable.
Yes. Makeform supports unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and reuse your questionnaire without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge; it is not required to keep collecting responses.
Use neutral, optional wording about coverage, movement, touch guidance, breaks, privacy, access, and areas not to photograph. Offer a private conversation and request only useful session information.
Plan a session that feels personal before it begins.
