By Annie Tao
There are many ways you can shoot newborns, but one thing is for sure: it takes a certain amount of finesse in photographing these little critters outside a ability to work a camera and knowledge of photography.
?If you’ve had a baby, then you probably know what I’m talking about. Newborns are especially vulnerable with soft bones and all plates in their skull, so that they move needs to be done carefully. In fact, I will the parents to the baby during my newborn shoots, if I want the baby to be in another place or position.
Newborns are also only recently outside the protection of their mother’s womb, so they are more susceptible to disease, cold and stress than other people you will probably photograph.
Here are 6 tips to the sensitive side of newborn photography.
That includes scented soaps, lotions, perfumes/colognes, after shaving, and hair styling products. Babies have sensitive nose. The last thing you would want is to your precious topic sneezing. If she (or he) is uncomfortable, then they will become restless and fussy.
The first thing that you should do when the newborn babies environment is to wash your hands really well. Even if you don’t intend to get rid of the baby, you will probably things that the baby contact, such as touching the crib has.
Plans if you are ill.
There is nothing more stressful than needed to ensure a sick newborn baby. Their bodies are too young for medicine, so do the baby’s family (and the baby) a favor by recast if you’re sick