Capturing Infants

Babies may seem like they are easy to capture good photos of. In reality they actually are really hard. Infants are the hardest unless you do not mind sleeping pictures. On the website Studioonashoestring.com has tips on photography infants. He states that he has been photographing infants for over twenty years and most parents do not like sleeping photos because they appear dead. Up until the Anne Geddes came out parents hated the idea of sleeping babies in photographs, they have changed a lot since then. Most baby photos are of sleeping babies.

As they state in their tips, babies will only feel comfortable in normal surrondings. They tend to sleep a lot when they are first born and the first month or so after that. So babies will only normally be awake if they are hungry, wet, or uncomfortable in any way, such as feeling abandoned. They say the easiest way to photograph them is to first make sure they are well fed, dry, and swaddled. As they grow older the needs will change. The website explains in detail the easiest ways to capture these different ages of infants and toddlers.