Newborn babies are always such a pleasure to photograph!  Some are social butterflies, who just wants to look at everyone and all the goings on and others are slow to warm-up or settled babies.  Each one of these little individuals needs to be photograhed in a slightly different way to ensure the best results, which are beautiful photos. 

This is why we spend a little time chatting with mom and dad right before we start the shoot to try and determine what kind of personality type your little one is so as to make everything run smoother.  All people has a “filter” of theings which we can tolerate during the day – for instance cars driving past your house in the street don’t “bother” you, you are aware of it but your brain filters it and tells you it’s not something you need to pay attention to (and this filter is influenced by all our senses hearing, sight, touch, smell etc)  When little babies are born they need to learn how to filter out “unimportant stimuli”  So they are extremely sensitive and don’t have a very high tolerance.

This is why it’s best to bring baby for their newborn shoot in the morning (as they haven’t been awake for long) and they haven’t been overstimulated as yet.  They tend to be much calmer and relaxed them.  And if we need to give them a short feed of 20mins or so, no problem as we do understand that they need this just to settle them.

So we know what they need and how to work with them , so that you have nothing to worry about and lovely photos to look forward to!

Riani Labuschagne & Yolandi Jacobsz

Newborn baby pictures