A Baby in Gumballs – Safe Newborn Posing

Well there is controversy all over a lot of my facebook groups today. To be clear this is not about the quality of said photographers work. She’s good- really good in fact. The controversy is over the fact that she but a baby in a glass jar. She has said that yes it was glass and yes the baby was in fact placed in the jar with the gumballs.

for the record this is a finalist in the BetterPhoto.com photo contest.

Here is a great post written by Take Off Your Mommy Googles about Glass Babies and it is very much worth the read.

Accidents do happen.

Most experiences photographers know that there are certain ways to photograph these babies. Did you know that a lot of the baby pictures you see are photographed in parts so the baby isn’t in any danger…..

For example this photo was phone in 3 separate pictures and then pasted together in photoshop.

Ok here’s another one

The hands never come off the baby.

Again this kind of picture is taken in a number of shots. Revealing how these poses are done is kinda like a magician spilling the beans on the magic trick. More and more it needs to be explained because frankly people search the internet, see these poses and think “oh I can do that”. The need to stop because nine times out of ten they are trying to get a newborn baby to hold their head up- people it’s a newborn they don’t do that.

If you’d like to see some other safe ways to photography babies, that you probably didn’t realize that photographers did, head over to my Pinterest Safe Newborn Posing board.

*** As you can see by the watermarks on these images I did not take these images and take no credit for anything to do with them (there’s a reason I don’t do newborn photography).***