NB photography poses, some look so awkward :/

[Aakajx]

Some new born poses look so awkward. I do know the tricks but still it looks unnatural.

What do you think?

 

[sashbar]

Well, I think if you spent most of your time inside a womb..

 

[table1349]

Face it. New born babies are nothing but eating, puking, crying, pooping 4 limbed bundles of spastic movements. It's all they know and can do at that point in their very young life. Get what you can and move on.

 

[KmH]

Posing newborns is a lot like posing a Gumby.

 

[table1349]

I always thought it was a lot like herding chickens.

 

[Aakajx]

Lol gumby.. Best call yeah but what newborn sticks there hands under their chin to hold it up lol. Looks odd.

 

[minicoop1985]

You'd be surprised. My niece does that on her own, like she's posing. Very strange. My son... pooped at the photographer. No, I mean at her. Projectile.

 

[Bossy]

Nb posing is like playing "Operation".

 

[vintagesnaps]

I think the reason that some of the poses you've seen in photos look awkward is probably because they are - your instincts as a mom are telling you that. Some of the poses being used in baby photography don't appear to be appropriate ways to position a newborn infant.

My background and the type work I've done is in early intervention and with baby photography online I'm seeing some things that are not how a baby should be positioned when too young to hold up their head; the airway needs to be kept clear so the head neck and trunk should be aligned and not flopped forward or arched back etc. Probably best to keep in mind what you learned when your baby was a newborn.

 

[Gavjenks]

Unless the client insisted otherwise, I would strongly encourage them to take photos of parents holding the infant. That is pretty much the most natural pose in real life for infants: being held (or if not, swaddled etc. which is just a less photogenic version of automatically holding). Or wearing the baby in an appropriate baby wearing device.

Putting them by themselves is inevitably weird, because babies don't just hang out by themselves in big white rooms, etc.

You'll get a natural look by replicating what naturally happens.