AIBU?
IDontWantAHumanSkull · 26/07/2017 18:06
It does make it more visually pleasing but it also takes away the newborn feel of it. Newborns are ugly - all wrinkles, scratches, bruises and jaundice. I don't understand why people want professional photos of newborns. The photos you want of your baby are when they're smiling and engaged not scrunched up and half blind. Newborn babies, I think, are one of the amazing things you can't capture properly with a photo. You need to smell them, hold them and be amazed at their tinyness, kiss their fuzzy little heads.
Whatsername17 · 26/07/2017 19:40
I had a card in my bounty pack offering a baby photo shoot with 'free editing to remove imperfections'. My baby was less than 5 hours old and already being told she wasn't perfect. 
dd2 had little red pressure marks around her nose. It never occurred to me to edit them. She was and is perfect. The whole thing makes me angry.
WellLetsSayHesSquare · 27/07/2017 20:02
A relative of ours had a professional shoot with the whole family. The photographer airbrushed out the child's birthmark! Without asking I might add.
When asked about it they said they assumed that's what they would want. 
Little lady is just gorgeous as she is and her birthmark makes her who she is. I honestly thought it made her look odd.
Needless to say the pictures went unbought.
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