To hate newborn photoshoot pictures?

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So I don't know if it's just me but a lot of people on my FB feed have been posting their newborn photoshoot pics recently and I bloody hate them.

The babies are always squished into an elaborate outfit or stark naked on a rug and rolled into a little ball and then photoshopped so they look like dolls with terrifyingly googly eyes or creepy porcelain skin.
I can't abide them. Is this just me being a bit of a misery guts or does it irritate everyone else too?

Give me a cheeky home snap of a snuggly baby in a onsie any day.

I like them. Sorry

noe what the naked bump shots with partner in his boxers resting his hand in the bump, just no tgat is intimate and personal.

I like that photo oyster

I guess the world would be a boring place if we all liked the same thing

I don't like the newborn ones but I quite like the toddler dressed as a fairy photo shoot.

The bounty ones people used to have back in the days at the hospital were creepy. They didn't even look alive.

I had some done, I just wanted a few photos of dd whilst she was still tiny, no novelty stuff, just a few nice shots on a good camera, and yes they do photo shop but only to remove any scratch marks and milk spots. I don't understand why it would bother anyone, surely if you don't see the point yourself the answer is obvious.

Depends on the photos. Our wedding photographer came out and took some of us as a family, no flower pots or crazy outfits, just our family. I love the photos, and they are even more special to us as she was prem, the photos were taken on her due date

Im not a fan of newborn photoshoots they seem a bit naff to me. Ds got an underwater photoshoot at 4 months old as part of his water babies course and the pictures were amazing and something totally different compared to your baby squashed into flowerpots and baskets...
I love the one of him with his hint of a smile and then his aye aye impression

YANBU I hate newborn photo shoots! Blurgh the worst are when they make it look like the baby's head is propped on its hands! This involves cutting and pasting millions of photos together because it is not even safe to position a newborn like that- creepy, unnatural and weird

Even more than this I hate 1st birthday cake smash pics, especially ones where a baby girl is topless wearing just a tutu, massive string of pearls and enormous flower hairband

Even more than this I detest pregnancy photo shoots! So CRINGE

I'd a million times rather see a badly lit, exhausted, no make up family selfie taken at 2am at a weird angle because the baby has fallen asleep on someone's arm. Natural, beautiful and capturing a lovely, genuine moment with no photoshop in sight

I must admit I really like the cheesy flowerpot type ones!

I have a younger family member who has the longest pregnancy ever in the history of the world.
We had a weekly bump picture from practically the minute her OH ejaculated.
Then we had the 'professional' bump shoot. ( he was topless in that as well)

At 4 days old we had the professional baby shoot where baby was literally stuffed into a hessian bag with huge orange flower hair and. It looked like a slug that had fallen off the magic roundabout.

Hate them. I don't really like any posed photographs.

YANBU, such a photoshoot is up there at the top of the list of cringeworthynessdom along with the cast of the pregnancy bump. I am not proud to say I have a friend who has one of these dangling over her stairwell.

I might be the only one who feels like this, but it seems to me that it took 4-6 weeks before my DDs really began to look like themselves. You can just about see them in newborn photos, but I wouldn't have spent money on photos of them as newborns. Once the started to smile they really gained their own expressions.

YANBU

They're creepy and weird. Especially when the baby's head is propped up on their hands as if they're deep in thought. Or if they're dressed up as a blimmin' sunflower. Just no!

Doesn't every newborn need a flower heavier than themselves stuck to their noggin? Or if a boy needs to look like a peckish caterpillar? With their bums in air on grannies sheepskin rug? I don't get them at all. Have loads of friends who have paid thousands on them!!! Including a weird on with a tin bath and some sunflowers on heads?? I got a fancy (2nd hand dslr) camera to take natural ones of my dc's. Much much nicer and more 'them'
YANBU

aeroflotgirl yes I think thats the issue. There's nothing wrong with the photos themselves, it's the fact that some people feel the need to post them on social media.
No idea why, really. I just can't imagine being that narcissitic myself, or wanting to be friends with someone like that.
I don't really understand the whole facebook thing. Are 'friends' real friends, or just followers like on twitter?

You don't understand people wanting to share pictures, that they like, of their PFB with their friends and family?

Have you met any people?

I tried to take some photos of my baby and they were rubbish so I did get a local baby photographer to take some. Baby was just in a little vest with no props. They are very beautiful and I have some up on the sitting room wall. I dislike posed photos but this lady does natural photos at home which are gorgeous. Really captures the love.
www.tinyshoots.co.uk/newborns/

Professional baby photos can be lovely. The naturalistic ones, not the ones where they're gussied up like a tiny Carmen Miranda.

Look at these poor guys. They're clearly thinking 'Bloody hell, we've been born to imbeciles who think it's cute to dress us up as sea anemones. Quick lads, let's make a wobble for the door'.

Haha! Thanks Squoose!!

These are my fave photos that I took of my baby cousin. Might not be everyone's style though. They weren't posed. I don't have the original of the two pics in one frame but I really like them. I guess it's personal taste, because some people hate stuff like black and white. But I cannot abide those flower headbands or cutesy dresses on bald wrinkly girl babies! Let them be babies, they can be feminine when they don't look like grumpy potatoes.

YANBU, I think the love of any sort of personal photoshoots is very naf, but this may stem from me being very unphotogenic, spur of the moment images are always more heartfelt IMO.

I've just googled cake smash photos as I'd never heard of them. WTF?!! Why would you teach your kids to smash a cake?! If I'd done that with mine, I can guarantee I'd have been cleaning up icing every time I brought a cake anywhere near my house for the next 10 years!

We had them done and I love them, but dS was just in a nappy and had none of the accessories etc. Both my husband and I are useless at taking photos, so I wanted to have something for them. I also know that there was no Photoshopping as I took a couple on my phone at the same time and they look the same. The lights and quality are just so much better for printing on the professional ones.