To find baby photo shoots a bit weird ?

[Notagoodtime]

Just seen on fb a friend took her newborn to a photo shoot. Baby was dressed in all sorts of costumes including a bumble bee and was contorted into all sorts of positions for photos. To me a newborn baby is so beautiful without all of these weird costumes and settings. Aibu?

Super tacky.

I don't line them. Sometimes the smooth the skin too and it looks odd.

I'm not really a fan of professional poses photos anyway, I like to just capture authentic moments and look back on that

@AllThePogs

That is a bit cruel. All babies look beautiful to their parents.

Oh here we go. All babies look odd when they're born. I look back on my son and realise his dad was right, he did look like an old man. Of course i thought he was gorgeous at the time!

He's very handsome now, it's just a lighthearted poke. We all look out of shape with weird proportions, acne and wrinkles as newborns, and then grow out of it - not something to be precious about

@Youngatheart00

Super tacky.

Agree, I hate posed photos, wedding photos were all fly on the wall bar a few, I don't even like school pics. I think baby photo shoots are weird...I make the right noises when I see friends have had them but inwardly cringe.

It was a picture on the hospital wall of a baby emerging from a yoghurt that first made me really feel excited about having a baby.

What? Coming out of a yoghurt container?

@HoppingPavlova

It was a picture on the hospital wall of a baby emerging from a yoghurt that first made me really feel excited about having a baby.

What? Coming out of a yoghurt container?

Yes, I want to know more about the yoghurt baby picture. Was the baby covered in yoghurt? Popping out the top of a yoghurt carton like a miniature Jack in the Box? Was it some kind of encouragement to have a vaginal birth so your baby could come into contact with a culture of beneficial bacteria on the way out?

Yeah I always found them really weird as well

Someone I know was training to be a newborn photographer and they have this wooden newborn and you practice arranging it’s limbs and taking photos in the various Anne geddes positions 😅

They're not to my taste but I can't get riled about it, particularly for those who do.

Taking (professional) pictures of your babies is nice and I can see why people do it, especially when it's of all their children together.

I have less than 100 pictures total of DS2, and less than 20 or so of DD1 (and the only ones I can really share without upsetting people are the ones of their feet). I'll never have a picture of all my children together.

If I ever get to bring another baby home, I probably will spend money on getting a professional to photograph them with DS1, probably not with angel wings on though!

Also need to know about the yoghurt photo. I’m very glad it helped the op get excited about her baby but - what??

@mollyqueenofsocks

I blame Anne Geddes! Her adorable little baby figurines brought to life in newborn photo shoots!

adorable?

YANBU OP. They are creepy and scary

Newborn photos I personally think are naff but more power to you if you have one done - but cake smash photos make me Seth, what a waste of good food - I also can’t stand food on people’s faces that hasn’t been wiped off, especially babies. Gives me the ick!

I also want to know more about the yoghurt baby - it sounds like a very sweet story!

They’re not my taste but who is it hurting? These threads just come across as snobby.

Its not my thing... but each to their own...I'm not offended by such pictures

@DappledThings really ! I thought they posed the baby in the odd positions. That is even more bizarre !

My dc are adults now, back in the day we just had a normal photo taken, baby in the Moses basket / on a blanket etc.

Can someone explain the latest cake smash shoots, or worse still for Christmas, a baby sitting inside a cup of goodness knows what liquid for a hot chocolate shoot.

And the babies all seem to be happy enough about it. There is no way my ds would sit inside a cup of liquid while posing and smiling.

The poor babies look contorted. The half naked pregnancy ones are worse though.

I'm a photographer, and do baby photos, but in my defence I only do very natural images of the baby and family in their own home - Google lifestyle newborn photography for an idea of the kind of photoshoots you can have of a baby without shoving them in a flowerpot! I think I basically provide the service of taking the photographs you wish your family would take for you with your baby in their first home, if only you knew someone with my skills and professional equipment 😁
I have actually done newborn photography training where I was shown how to safely pose a newborn, and anyone who does like that posed studio style should only ever book someone who has had training. Wasn't for me though. I do find it a bit odd, the style usually includes photoshopping their skin so they look like a doll, and often swaddling them in such a way that they appear to have no legs! The oddest idea I saw was during lockdown when some photographers were offering to Photoshop your baby's face onto a pre existing photos of someone else's baby! What is the point?! 😆

I find them uncomfortable. Especially when babies are contorted into positions they don't naturally do themselves as if they're decorative ornaments.

I had a photoshoot provisionally booked in with "remember my baby" (who do wonderful work as it happens) because my dd wasn't expected to survive birth and I wanted something, anything, of her. We didn't need their services thankfully and when she got out of intensive care I got baby photos taken. I've had photos taken frequently since, cake smashes, birthdays, Christmas photos, not one fuck do I give if they're considered "tacky".
Sometimes memories are all you get to keep, I like photos.
I'm pregnant currently with DC2 and will be having photos of him too assuming he's healthy enough to manage it. I really hope none of my friends or family ever walked into my home and "cringed" at our baby photos

Baby showers.
Baby reveals.
Baby photoshoots.
Christmas Eve boxes.

All yuck. All quite unnecessary. All based on excessive consumerism.

Hate them with a passion

I find all photo shoots weird, not just baby ones! To MILs consternation. But most photoshoot pics I see make me cringe. Even amateur photos I take, I prefer non staged shots. But they make other people happy, each to their own.