We have been photographing newborn portraits for many years now. We adore the sweet, sleepy posed baby photos, but we learned to capture more than that over the years. We have learned to capture those sweet moments in between each pose as well.
Sometimes baby will have gorgeous open eyed images and those images are ones that parents adore. Parents love to see baby’s eyes and often those open-eyed images are chosen for their birth announcements.
I also love to capture little movements like yawns and stretches. In the photo above, baby stretched out of position while posing and instead of instantly fixing the pose, i took a moment to capture the sweet baby stretch. Why is this important?
Parents adore the beautiful, posed portraits of their baby…in fact, that is why they book a newborn portrait session with us. However, they love the natural things too, like open eyes, yawns and baby stretches because this is how they see baby every day. So we strive to capture a few of these natural moments in every photo shoot.
