Newborns Look Better Sleeping Or Eating
Posted by sepial at July 20th, 2006
Very young babies are inevitably popular subjects for photographs and are often present at weddings and christenings. Unfortunately, when you can see the face of a newborn baby (that is, when it’s not being nursed) it’s usually either crying or scowling. Adults don’t look too pretty when they are crying or scowling and neither do the very young—well, not to me at least; I’m sure their parents feel differently. They are however, less likely to have their faces screwed up in a mask of displeasure if at least one of their needs is being met. Take advantage of this fact and wait, wait, wait until they have attained some kind of temporary peace.
Note the washed-out bright blur of light from the window in this second example. It looks like that because I over-rode the automatic exposure setting of the camera and metered on the baby’s face to ensure that enough light would be let into the camera for the infant’s features to be discerned. This “blew out” the window, but I wasn’t interested in the window and neither were you.
I read this article once upon a time about how walmart as a policy never takes photographs of sleeping babies at thier picture studios. Especially newborns, reason being if, heaven forbid, the baby dies between the time of the photograph and the time you get the photograph, you end up with these really creepy pictures a few weeks later.
Has anyone else heard this?