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<p>This is an article I wrote in response to a private pm sent to me. I had not had much experience in the field because this is a difficult area to approach. <br>

Mothers are hard to please as customers.<br>

Babies are too unpredictable.<br>

Some babies are just not cute enough (sorry).<br>

Since I spent a bit of time writing a reply, I turned it into a blog post on my website.</p>

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<br />Your feedback is appreciated.<br>

Thanks<br>

James</p>

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<p>ALL Babies are beautiful to the parents - your personal opinion of how cute a baby is or is not is not relative to photographing children. I photograph hundreds of children a year and find you list way way way too generalized. I think Mom's are totally easy to please if you know how to photograph their child. The key to child photography has nothing to do with props - it has everything to do with location and timing. You have to know how kids respond, react and anticipate that and go with them. All children but babies epecially photograph best after good sleep - for babies it's right after they wake up from a nap - children usually early morning. Toddlers need to be well fed and awake. Young children need warm up time to the photog. <br>

Your photos on your blog - the first one is a nice snap shot obviously in a living room - It is underexposed- if you want to make it look like a portrait - you need to clone out the black box sitting on the child's head, bump up the exposure and crop it in tight... the second one is way underexposed and you have lost all the detail in the childs eyes and the photo is too warm - you lost all the skin tones....<br>

I hope I am not coming off too harsh I just thing you sound a but cavilier about children's photography.</p>

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<p>I am doing my first baby portraits next weekend, there will be two babies there both with single parents (brother / sister). They would like to do it in a park, I have not confirmed times yet...looking for suggestions. <br>

My equipment:<br>

Nikon D300<br>

Nikon 50mm f/1.8<br>

SB-900 (with 24" softbox)</p>

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