Sneak Peek: Devin

I had another newborn shoot this morning. I feel a lot better about my results than my last one. For one thing, doing a newborn shoot was more fresh in my mind, from just doing one two weeks ago. Devin was awake for most of the shoot, but he hardly uttered a peep. He was such a mellow calm child. We opted for more swaddled pictures than naked ones, though we got a few of those. too. I've only edited one photo so far, so I haven't looked at the rest in detail yet, but I wanted to post this for Mary.


I love newborn body hair. If you click to enlarge this photo, you'll see a little better the hair on his face, especially the whisper of it between his nose and lips.

Baby Alden

Alden was my second newborn photographed. I think newborns are even more challenging than toddlers, believe it or not. Getting their attention or making them giggle aren't really options. Getting pooped on is an option. I "chose" that one about 5 minutes after meeting Miss Alden. Luckily, she only lives across the street from me, so I was able to run home an change

On one hand, I don't want to feel like I'm giving up because it's too hard or any similar excuse, but I'm not sure I'm at a level to do newborns yet. For one thing, you have to shoot them indoors. My abilities and experience with indoor shooting -- even with good natural light from windows -- is limited. Very limited. For another thing, each one is so different, and it's tough to get them asleep (surprisingly), or to get them to do what you want for photos. I think it's just a completely different dynamic that photographing anyone over six months old.

So overall, I'm not satisfied with my work from this shoot. Alden is a beautiful baby, just like her mama and her sister, but I'm not satisfied with my own results.





This kind-of sums up most of our time together.




Silly girl.






I think she may have a future as a flamenco dancer.








I love this face. It makes me laugh to look at this photo.






Poor Alden's skin was so dry. I loved the flakiness on her feet.






There's one more photo that I've been trying to add all day long, but Blogger keeps rotating it, and it's making me mad. If I can upload it correctly later, I will.