A Few Tips On Baby Photography

By Adriana Noton

Photography is a good way to remember all the different stages in your life. When your children go to one grade to the next, when you marry the one you love, buy a new house, or just to give a viewpoint of the everyday instances throughout the year. The important moments, or the ones that just invoke mild interest, a picture is a landmark and one of the most important of those landmarks is the birth of a child.

Babies are the most popular targets for photos and unfortunately the most difficult to capture on film. You need a lot of skill and patience in order to get a successful baby shot. One thing that you see often in such photos is red eye. Many people think that in order to capture everything well on film that they need to use a flash. This isn't the case. In terms of babies, natural light is better than bright, glaring, artificial light.

They move, they fight, they cry, and if they're very upset, they poop. As a result baby photography takes not only a lot of patience, but a lot of skill. However, even if you're not a professional you should be able to take some very good photos by taking in these few simple suggestions. The first thing is to avoid using the flash on your camera.

However if you can't avoid red eye a lot of cameras have a red eye reduction function and if yours does not there is free baby photography software is available on the internet that can fix the problem for you. Another common issue is the blurring of images.

The next point is what should be the most obvious. The background is something that should be kept simple. Your baby is the main focus in the picture and therefore shouldn't be overshadowed by a loud, obnoxious background. You can avoid the background noise of chairs, toys on the floor, or other children in the background by zooming in or moving closer since the surroundings are very seldom as important as the child.

That means that backgrounds with too many things going on can overshadow your subject. To avoid that you can either zoom in or move closer to your baby. You can also keep them dressed in light, solid-colored clothes because patterns and 'heavy' colors can distort the baby's face and eyes. Too much color, whether on your baby or off is bad for the overall image and you should work to avoid it.

Speaking of effects, you can try some very simple things to make the baby picture fascinating and unique. Instead of using the baby as the main focus, you can instead pay more attention to the toys, foods, blankets, and etc that make up the baby's everyday life.

You can focus on the things that are associated with the baby instead of the baby itself, take a snapshot of your baby in a strange pose or engaging in some strange behavior or facial expression to add a bit of spice to the picture. Mirrors and blurred backgrounds are also popular in baby photography. The point is to have fun and if you keep that in mind everything else should just fall in place. - 30525

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