Comments on: Baby Photography 101

By: Boo

Boo — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:56:06 +0000

I am photographing a newborn next week. I love the towel stack, but I would be afraid of baby falling off, it looks quite high. What’s the secret there?

By: norman achong

norman achong — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:04:44 +0000

We are expecting a baby soon and I cannot wait to take lots of creative pictures. I was wondering if you can post a tutorial on how you blacked out everything except for the arms and the baby? I would love to try to reproduce such a shot.

thanks

By: Amanda Jayne

Amanda Jayne — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:29:25 +0000

Does anyone have any tips on taking photos of the black and white pictures (above) on a Canon ES1000?

I have 2 beautiful nieces (twins) and they were born 4 months ago.. but are premmies and are still quite small… would love to take some of these photos this weekend If i can – just need to know what programme i should use to get the perfect dark light etc… would love to get other nice family shots

By: Heidi Cabrera

Heidi Cabrera — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 03:10:27 +0000

Use a white noise machine during the photo shoot. It takes newborns back to when they were inside their mommy’s womb and makes them feel more relaxed and calm. Also shooting in a warm environment is really key. Newborns get really cold really fast, especially if you are going to do the nude shots, and that is one of the reasons they would probably pee all over everything. This also applies to making sure your props are not too cold for the baby i.e tin bucket. I would suggest warming it up the tin bucket with a blow dryer. Oh and one more thing make sure your blankets, throws and hats are not going to irritate the baby’s very sensitive skin.

By: tea

tea — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:29:31 +0000

wow,,what a nice tips!

i love baby and kids photography,,but now i want to explore more about newborn gesture for a safe posing,, do you have any tips for that?

thank you,,

By: Citizette.com

Citizette.com — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:18:46 +0000

Anyone have tips for photographing a newborn baby outdoors??

By: Candice Duke

Candice Duke — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:15:56 +0000

hide a heating pad under baby to help them stay warm and help them sleep through the shoot!

By: james

james — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:23:46 +0000

Hello, I want to know the baby’s eyes flash do harm? thanks!

By: Denver Baby Photographer

Denver Baby Photographer — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:43:38 +0000

Excellent tips! I shoot a lot of baby’s but found these tips to be very useful. Great job.

By: Erica

Erica — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:59:09 +0000

Can you (or anyone) give me some tips on the vignette tool you talked about? I’ve sort of attempted to reproduce the black photo with the baby and arms being the only thing that show. But I do need to darken the black shirt and black backdrop and I’m having trouble achieving this. Any tips? I googled a couple articles on making a vignette, but they don’t seem to be giving me instructions for what you did with the pictures in the article. Any help anyone? I truly appreciat eit.