How to get 14 month old to sit for photos? OR how to take your own!

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Professional photos are being taken in Boots this week. Been wanting to get dd done, so took her yesterday.

She hated it, and would not sit, and cried so quickly picked her up.

I have been told to try her again, another day. But I just know she is not going to sit, and photos are not worth the upset for her.

How can you take some professional looking photos myself?

Yes got digital camera. I am going to try that, thanks.

Think those sorts of posed pics are better for young babies, that are just going to lay there, or older children that understand they are being a model!

get on the floor - her level... any other photos of looking "down" on her will be at an odd angle when printed IME (that's why Boots et al have the chair on a stage)

Get the camera out as often as possible - even if you don't print the pics... get her used to it and the flash etc.

I did that with DS and by 2yrs he was sitting for professional shots, posing and didn't want it to stop Mind you, he does like to look at himself in a mirror lol...

in a studio you have to do a song and dance routine behind the camera to make her look up and smile. Or distract her - my grandma used to put a ball of sticky tape (invisible to camera) on one of the baby's hands to keep them intrigued.

At home, use a tripod and get the lighting and backdrop etc right first while someone else is amusing dd somehwere else (use a stuffed animal as a stand in for focal length)
Then sit her in situ while DH does a silly dance behind the camera. When that starts to pall give her something to play with.
Take loads.

now if we'd bothered to put a piece of white card behind her I reckon this would give the pros a run for their money, and that was just dh lying on the carpet with her.

we got professional photos done of dd when she was about that age. We went to photographers studio, he had lots of toys, flowers, beads etc for her to play with. She never "posed" as such and the photographs are beautiful - pretty expensive though.

The best photos are the ones that they arent posing for IMO.

Have a look on my profile.
Theres a photo of my dd and ds1.
I was trying to get them to both look at the camera at the time, both sat upright and smiling.
In the end they both ended up slouching and dd was trying to make ds turn his head round to face the camera

I just kept clicking the camera and that one came out and I think its lovely.
I printed a few off and framed them for family.

Much better than posed photos and Venture things IMO.

No there should be a sepia one of my dd and ds1

Thank you.

Natural photos are the best.

I have managed to get all my girls together today, and grand child, and have some lovely pics of them all together, just need to edit them and the background now!

We re-created a old school photo they all had done together, when they were alot younger. With there new sister in the new one, and another with grandson in