Newborn Photography Help - Hanging in Cheesecloth?

ababysean · Jan 31, 2012

Schwettylens said:
come on.. mom holding the cheesecloth is fine. Lift the baby like a couple inches from the bed and photoshop.

No it isnt! Mom has no idea what the eff to do. lol I don't trust mom. I don't trust anyone actually. Which is why I don't want to hang baby in anything.... Plus get mom around the baby and it will start to fuss/wiggle because it smells her, her first reaction is going to be grab up at the baby, not lay it down... I don't know, plus if I'm charging what I charge, I don't want mom to have to work. That is why I have an assistant. You don't go to a restaurant and then wash your own dishes.... I want mom to relax, lay back, stay AWAY from the baby if at all possible.... Let me take control.

CCericola · Jan 31, 2012

You would be surprised how very little you need to lift the baby to get the shot. Just a few inches. Besides, babies bounce! (just kidding

). That said. I for one, think it is a creepy looking shot, though most of Anne Gette's trends are creepy.

cannpope · Jan 31, 2012

I have yet to attempt a newborn shoot, but I will one day. I was infuriated when I ran across a couple of pictures on another forum of a newborn shoot and saw the head in hands poses. I don't know what this woman was thinking, but the poor babies hands looked like they were going to snap in half and they were red as beets. I could've cried if I had kept looking. Some people will do anything to get the shot they want, but safety comes FIRST. Just use common sense.

Robin Usagani · Jan 31, 2012

babies are more flexible than most of you think. You yanked that little sucker out from the mom LOL.

JS_280 · Jan 31, 2012

CCericola said:
You would be surprised how very little you need to lift the baby to get the shot. Just a few inches. Besides, babies bounce! (just kidding ). That said. I for one, think it is a creepy looking shot, though most of Anne Gette's trends are creepy.

Glad I'm not the only one...

Tee · Jan 31, 2012

So what was swirling around Facebook yesterday?

ababysean · Jan 31, 2012

newborns are very squishy but that doesnt mean you can hang them from something and not worry about it. They are also very fragile. and I'd rather be over the top with safety then under.

ababysean · Jan 31, 2012

someone attended one of the top 3 newborn photog workshops and took a cell phone pic of her holding a baby several feet off the ground with no spotter or support under the baby.

MWC2 · Jan 31, 2012

ababysean said:
someone attended one of the top 3 newborn photog workshops and took a cell phone pic of her holding a baby several feet off the ground with no spotter or support under the baby.

really? WOW! It's one thing if it's your own baby, you can take the chance of dropping it, but someone else's baby, no way.

2WheelPhoto · Jan 31, 2012

Let's get back to reality, no one is suggesting pulling a "Michael Jackson" over the rail! A few inches from a safe surface is a few inches. The baby is more at risk when mom stands up while breast feeding.

MWC2 · Jan 31, 2012

2WheelPhoto said:
Let's get back to reality, no one is suggesting pulling a "Michael Jackson" over the rail! A few inches from a safe surface is a few inches. The baby is more at risk when mom stands up while breast feeding.

I'm not saying your not wrong, but it's one thing if a parent drops a their own child, it's a whole other ball game when a hired photographer (or a friend doing a favor) drops the same baby. There would be no way in H-E- Double hockey sticks I would take the chance of droping a friends baby just to get a photo. Talk about a way to ruin a friendship, sorry I dropped your 5 day old baby, but no harm no foul, it was only 2 inches....

2WheelPhoto · Jan 31, 2012

MWC2 said:
2WheelPhoto said:

Let's get back to reality, no one is suggesting pulling a "Michael Jackson" over the rail! A few inches from a safe surface is a few inches. The baby is more at risk when mom stands up while breast feeding.

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I'm not saying your not wrong, but it's one thing if a parent drops a their own child, it's a whole other ball game when a hired photographer (or a friend doing a favor) drops the same baby. There would be no way in H-E- Double hockey sticks I would take the chance of droping a friends baby just to get a photo. Talk about a way to ruin a friendship, sorry I dropped your 5 day old baby, but no harm no foul, it was only 2 inches....

Yeah I can't disagree but I'd ask the mom "if you want this shot will you hold baby 1 inch over this pillow for a sec" =)

MTVision · Jan 31, 2012

2WheelPhoto said:
Let's get back to reality, no one is suggesting pulling a "Michael Jackson" over the rail! A few inches from a safe surface is a few inches. The baby is more at risk when mom stands up while breast feeding.

No way is a baby more at risk when breast feeding standing up IMO. The mother is actually holding the child - and the mom would be pretty hurt, physically an emotionally, if she dropped her newborn.
Big difference between a mom standing up breastfeeding versus someone holding a branch/pole/whatever a few feet off the ground with a baby hanging in some fabric.

A few inches isn't so bad but there should still be someone underneath the baby and not just a bean bag. Your suppose to support a newborns head for them and not let it flop around, so I don't get how people think its OK to let a newborn infant "flop" over or fall a few inches.

Granted, it happens. I'm sure newborns have accidents and fall but it's an accident. Not because their mom is hanging them in fabric or putting them on bookshelves or putting them in glass vases for the sake of photography.