Tuesday Tips & Pics - Evan's Newborn Shoot Preview
Monday, April 30, 2012
This weekend I had my very first newborn shoot! Staci and Andy, my awesome friends from this maternity shoot had their adorable little baby boy, Evan.
Newborn Shoot Tips: (I'm obviously no expert, as this was my first try, so if anyone has any tips to add please let know!) Keep the room very warm! We cranked the heat and used a space heater near where we were shooting. Me and the parents were dying but the baby was nice and warm and comfy and happy! This was helpful for adorable little naked shots! We started the shoot after he was freshly fed and changed and very sleepy! We did this shoot at 10 days old when baby's sleep quite a bit, so we just had to be patient and wait for the baby to get comfy and sleepy in each position. I set up a pillow on a bed near a window and used a reflector for extra light. I put some doggy pee pads under the blankets for accidents, and YES there were several accidents!!! Lots of clean blankets around helped too!
This is the only shot I've edited so far, and it seems the trickiest part of the editing will be smoothing all the blankets out! The blankets were all so wrinkly no matter how much I tried to smooth them! I used Coffee Shop Blog's Baby Powder Room to help smooth his skin and actually used the skin smoothing layer to help smooth the blanket too a bit.
Here's a before and after for you. Though the "before" already had basic Lightroom adjustments on it, it isn't completely SOOC.
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I love how you were able to smooth out the backdrop! great picture :)
I think I would get something that didn't need to be smoothed if I was shooting newborns a lot. : ) What a sweet little baby!
WOW Jaymi... 1st wedding, & now 1st newborn... AMAZING JOB! This may be your 1st, but you could never tell. You are surely a Pro my dear!
You did a fabulous job on your first newborn photo shoot! :) I'm beginning to realize that I may need to start learning how to edit my photos just a bit. Yikes!
What a adorable little boy....I wish I would have a timemachine to shoot me back to 1993, when my firstborn boy was just as adorable...you can almost smell the babyskin when you see this picture.
Good job!
Great shot and great tips...
Tiffany
He is so cute! You did a great job with the blanket! I'm sure his session will be a treasure.
How adorable!!!! I think the blanket smoothing came out good. I would have never known if you had not shown the SOOC.
I think you did a fantastic job; this shot is gorgeous!
hmm how was the blanket held up? It doesn't seem to be pulled taut = wrinkles. If you don't have strong clips/stands and baby is safe, have the parents hold each corner of the blanket to pull it tighter?
Since I know I'll have my own set of newborn photos to shoot in a few months, I am paying close attention. I think you did great for your first session.
Awww, Jaymi...such a sweet photo of baby Evan! Newborns are so difficult to photograph unless they are asleep. Then you can pose them. Great job on your first newborn shoot!
Fun shot! I love that you were able to smooth the blanket, the edit looks great!
I love the green background! Fabulous. :)
Ohhhh, ain't he the cutest baby ever!!!!
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OOOH! Beautiful photo is a great tribute to the tenderness. that beautiful. Greetings.
Wow so gorgeous!
So sweet! I love tat green color.
So sweet, can't wait to see more. I wasn't brave enough to have the diaper off, I get peed on enough as it is.
You did great smoothing out the blanket! Great idea to use that action. I usually do a ton of cloning to smooth them out if I cant pull them tight enough. Like how the baby is peeking :)
I agree, Jaymi, the blankets are the killer! No matter how much I try they are always wrinkled! That is great for your first newborn shoot. You should see mine..it's embarrassing...luckily it was for a friend! Great job!!
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