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4 Tips for Photographing Your Uncooperative Toddler

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  You might be familiar with the experience: you hire someone to do a baby photoshoot, but your child isn't settling down for even a minute. Eventually, the session ends, and the baby photographer has to leave without taking all the great photos you had in mind. While you may not have been able to get your money's worth out of that photoshoot, here are some tips that'll help you get the required poses from your baby next time out: 1.      Make Playing A Part of It You may find yourself thinking that playing during the newborn photoshoot is just a waste of time, but it’ll help calm the kids down and make them familiar with the environment. So,pick a location for the kids where they can play for a bit in between shots. It would help if you also were getting involved in the playing. That's not to say that you should roll around in the dirt with them, just that being fun and playful during the process might make the kids feel more comfortable, and they mig

A Beginner’s Guide to Cake Smash Photography

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    Babies, aren’t they just the cutest? They come into the world and bring with them all sorts of adorable traditions ! A relatively recent one is that of the cake smash photoshoot. For parents, or parent figures, that still don’t know about this delicious ritual, here’s a guide: Cake Smash – What’s It About? As the name indicates, a cake smash photoshoot is all about a baby and what they do with the cake when left to their own devices, all of which is documented by a photographer. The snaps from this photoshoot usually end up on the invitation cards for the baby’s 1 st birthday celebrations. This is also the reason why cake smash photoshoots are done a few weeks, or a month, before a baby’s actual1 st birthday . Picking the Location For people wanting to do a cake smash in a studio environment, professional photographers have plenty of options when it comes to sets, props and décor.  Working with the photographer, a theme is selected and other elements can be discus