PARENT PREPARATION

NEWBORN AND TODDLER PRE SHOOT INFORMATION

NEWBORN INFORMATION

The most important part of preparing your newborn baby for their photo shoot is that you aim to keep your baby awake for two hours prior to your session if possible. Ideally give them a bath, let them kick around and then give them a full feed just before coming to your session or even better when you arrive – that way your baby should be nice and sleepy for the photo shoot. They will have had time to digest their milk and bring up any wind they may have. If you have a long journey to the studio then you may need to give them a top up feed before we start the session.

Dress your babies in clothes that do not need to be removed over the head as this can disturb them when we are undressing them so avoid putting them in a vest.

If bottle feeding please bring plenty of bottles; your baby will feed more than normal during the session due to the warmth in the studio.

For photographs your baby will be sometimes be unclothed but posed so all the ‘important bits’ are not on show. The studio will be kept very warm for their comfort. So please bear in mind that you will be very warm too so come dressed in layers and bring spare clothes for yourself in case of accidents.

Your newborn will poo and wee on all the props. This is natural and expected. Please do not feel embarrassed when this happens.

Don’t worry about baby acne or little scratches, these will be softly edited.

If your baby has a dummy please bring it. This will ensure that your baby settles for the shoot.

Please refrain from taking images on your mobile phones during the shoot. We will supply you with a sneak peek edited image for use on social media that you can show your friends and family. Images taken on your phone during a shoot do not reflect the quality of our work and we are therefore not happy with them on social media.

TODDLER INFORMATION

As with all shoots we want your little ones to have the best of fun and feel at home,

So if you want to bring a loved toy blanket or something they can relate to that is fine.

Changes of clothes are also welcomed and we have a changing area available if needed.
We try to keep the number of People in the studio to a minimum due to the face that children will instinctively look at all parents for reassurance rather than the camera and that can lead to wandering eyes and strange look on the images.

We will be very relaxed as to not stress the little ones and they are under no pressure throughout the whole visit. Sweets can also sometimes help as an incentive to grab a smile:)

Thank you for choosing Emotion Picture and we are excited to be privileged enough to work with your little one.