Newborn TWINS!!! harder than you think.

joecoulsonphotography · Sep 15, 2008

I have been fortunate in the fact that when photographing newborns they have all been relatively responsive and give many expressions for me to work with. This was my first newborn twins shoot. I can tell you that there is only one more baby but it was infinitely harder. Every time one would pose perfect, the other would stick a tongue out and so on and so forth. The timing was hard to keep up with. I was generally pleased with the results and the clients loved them so it's all good.

keith204 · Sep 15, 2008

that first one is hilarious. Certainly a keeper. The second one is just a great shot. Good positioning and framing.

Big Mike · Sep 15, 2008

I've shot 9 month old twins, and that was a bit of a handful...newborns would be a whole new ball game. Well done.

PattiS · Sep 16, 2008

I love the composition of the second one... very sweet.

joecoulsonphotography · Sep 17, 2008

Thanks all, the mom cried when she saw the full res shots. Good stuff.

JaimeGibb · Sep 17, 2008

I think you did awesome. I understand how hard it is. My neice and nephew are twins and it was really hard to try and get good newborn shots of them together. I even tried to google "newborn twin portraits" and there's just not much out there

BEAUTIFUL job!!

3of11 · Sep 17, 2008

I photographed my first newborn twin session recently and man! It is a lot harder than you think! Nice shots, especially the second one.

photographedmemories · Sep 28, 2008

I've shot 4 month old triplets!! THAT was hard!

These photos are so precious. I love the last one.

Big Mike · Sep 29, 2008

Big Mike said:
I've shot 9 month old twins, and that was a bit of a handful...newborns would be a whole new ball game. Well done.

I just shot the same twins again this weekend (at one year old) and it was even harder than the first time. Getting them both do look at you (or at anything) at the same time was an exercise in futility. I'm pretty sure I have some usable shots but it wasn't easy.

joecoulsonphotography · Sep 30, 2008

These twins are children of our friends so I imagine i will be shooting them quite a lot. I look forward to the challenge

rubbertree · Oct 8, 2008

great shots!
I have 2 twin sessions coming up, I can only imagine how hard it's going to be! The youngest set are a boy and girl and the boy is nearly double the size of his sister. This is gonna be hard!

kellylindseyphotography · Oct 8, 2008

The first one has a red cast and also seems soft? Or oof. I also feel like you might not need the vingetting here because its casting a weird "shadow" on their chest which is unnecessary.. (same can be said for #2 also)

#2 is really sweet, I'd ditch the vingette though