Newborn Photo Shoot with Azari

A wonderful newborn photo shoot, with the lovely Azari. I’ve been photographing this family for the past couple of years and they’re all great. The oldest Jai even helps me out, and a very good photography assistant he is too! Azari slept the entire shoot, so we were able to achieve quite a few poses. I love this image with the bonnet. It was one of the pictures chosen to go up on Mum’s wall, one of three 20″ x 16″‘s sized prints. I love them all, but when I look at this picture I find it very gentle and calming. Azari was premature by a few weeks, and we actually did the shoot very close to her due date.

Harriett chose all black and white prints and I must say I do love black and whites. They are just so timeless. The printer I use is a canon ipf8400 and it prints wonderful pictures. The inks are pigment inks too, which means they will last up to 75 years. So, wonderfully, maybe these prints will be passed down to Azari’s grandchildren.

We did pictures of Azari on her own and with her two siblings. (I always do the sibling images first) Aston is now the middle child, and at 18 months old found the shoot a bit confusing. We managed to get a beautiful shot of the three of them though, and I’m so pleased we did. Sibling shots can be the most challenging in a newborn photo shoot. This is because, not only are you trying to get a good picture with all that entails, i.e. thinking about the lighting, posing, details. But also safety has to be paramount. In this instance, my go to pose for siblings which is lying them down, didn’t work. So instead I was able to put Aston on the white wooden chair and Jai to his side, holding his sister. It is a beautiful picture, I’m very proud of it, and Mum loves it.

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Newborn baby Azari, she was still very flexible, and was very comfortable in this position.

Newborn images in my newborn bowl.

Sometimes with newborns, it takes a while to find a position they really like, this was Arlo’s whether in the bowl or in his Mum’s hands. They certainly let you know when they are comfortable and when they are not! This bowl is fairly small and I’ve had some newborns that I know are not going to fit in it. Safety is my concern at all times, so I had the Mum keep her hand on Arlo, so he felt safe, she then lifted her hand up just above and I took the picture. I then cloned her hand out of shot.

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These shots in his Mum’s hands are so precious, he was very comfortable in this position. This image makes me feel sleepy! I always love it at this point of the shoot, when the newborn is deeply sleeping. It took a while with Arlo, but we absolutely made the most of it when he did. I also pick up on the vibes of the parents, a bit like the newborns, and I’ve found if they are calm so is the baby. This session was very chilled out and so we were able to achieve what we wanted to achieve x

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9 day old newborn photo shoot…

How adorable is this little boy! This picture was a joint effort by Mum Sadie and me. Such patience from Sadie as I got Arlo into the perfect position. Amazing to think that by next week he’ll probably be too big to fit into Mum’s hands like this. I’ve been trying to get this shot for a while, I had visualised it in my head and almost achieved it a couple of weeks ago, but not quite. Each shoot is always different as every baby is different and so you can’t always achieve the same poses. I really do work with baby cues and see how comfortable they are in certain poses, and don’t push it when they don’t look relaxed. Arlo took a while to go to sleep, but once he gave in he was in a very deep sleep and I was able to position him without waking. Thanks again to his Mum. Newborn shoots need a lot of patience, but if you are patient the results are wonderful! x

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Etsy Shop, Digital Backdrops

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AuraDigitalBackdrops?ref=hdr_shop_menu

So digital backgrounds seem to be becoming quite a big thing in the photography world. I have a studio and figured that whilst it isn’t being used for paying shoots I could create some digital backdrops of my own. Both, to use for myself and to sell. I have, over the past five years amassed a collection of backdrops and props. So I have created an etsy site. I only have one backdrop in the shop at the moment! but throughout the coming weeks I am planning to keep adding more and more.

 

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Above is the digital backdrop. An oval basket on a wooden floor with wallpaper backdrop. Below is the image with a baby added. This is really useful, particularly if baby is fussy and doesn’t want to be moved very much. Then, if the parents have their hearts set on a particular set up, we can still achieve it.  Victoria x

 

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