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Hi Gary,
She is absolutely GORGEOUS - such a beautiful baby! I know your whole family is so excited!
Here are my best tips for photographing new babies - shoot them in the morning...babies are usually happier in the am hours. Use a nice warm space to shoot...lots of heat, until you are sweating buckets. They love that (even though we don't so much lol). Use white noise...I downloaded a womb sounds app on my iphone and blast it at full volume right next to him, but a hair dryer works just as well. Have mom try to keep baby awake for an hour or two prior to doing pictures, and then have her feed baby up really good. After all of that, it just takes a lot of patience!
Also, make sure you don't up light babies...have them angled at about 45 degrees to your light source but have the light flowing from the top of the head down, not up the nose. I have a pullback of the pics I did of Gabriel yesterday...I did them in my garage but a window inside a home will do also. Try to find a room with white walls if possible or you will have fun with color casts. That's one reason I like my garage. If you are using a beanbag, make sure it is nice and full/firm so you don't have issues with sinking...use lots of blanket layers and clamps to pull the blanket tight so you cut down on editing work. Keep taking pictures of her! They are usually easiest to photograph the first week to 10 days old, but Gabriel is 3 weeks old today and we're still going strong in the photo department, so you may get more time than that. I'm jealous that you are getting such alert awake photos...I need some of those of Gabriel!
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