Newborn photo shoot - what if it doesn't work?

What should parents do at a newborn photo shoot?

photo by Viktoria Iljin

At the latest newborn photo shoots, the babies test my strength and show me in different ways that I shouldn’t relax 🤷🏻‍♀️

Newborn photo shoot in Tallinn
Newborn photo shoot in Tallinn

When you think: “I photographed so many babies, I can’t be surprised by anything”.. but no 😂 Nonetheless experience allows to give incredibly beautiful shots to every family. ❣️ For all the time I worked with newborn babies, there was only one photo shoot, when I invited parents to come to the studio for the second time, because after the photo shoot I realized that there were very few shots. And it was not because I could not find an approach to the baby, and not because the Baby was worried about the tummy.. It happens. For reasons beyond anyone’s control 🤷🏻‍♀️ we did a second shoot in a couple of days and it was a great job.❣️

Newborn photo shoot
Newborn photo shoot

Why am I writing about this 😀 if it seems to you that at photo shoots all the babies sleep sweetly and soundly, and the photographer just presses a button, know that it is not. A newborn photo shoot is a very narrow and most difficult direction in photography. Try to relax while shooting (after all, a calm mom = a calm baby 😉), enjoy the process and later the result!❣️

Newborn photo shoot in the studio
Newborn photo shoot in the studio