Taking Pictures with Babies

Christmas is rapidly approaching! I am always caught off guard at how quickly Halloween turns into Thanksgiving which turns into, "Oh no, we forgot to bake cookies for Santa!" Luckily, that only happened once and the boys were half asleep as we opened the cookie platter gift, we had just received, to set a plate for good ole St Nick. This year, however, is a whole new ballgame.

Now that I have an Etsy shop, I am prepping for Holiday items a lot sooner than I ever would have imagined. As the days pass I am shipping more and more orders and continuously creating new items to photograph and list. Sounds pretty straight forward, and it is, except for one thing....my model is a DIVA! Kidding! It's actually even worse than that, she's one and a half! So, without further adieu....here is a glimpse of what you don't see.

 

Whenever I take pictures in a tutu I give her the chance to wear it for a bit. I thought I would try to get some headband pictures in, but after one awkward pose the headband was off and so was she!!

 

 

 

More often than not, the accessory is thrown to the wayside as she takes off out of the room.

 

 

 

Other days she is eager to have her picture taken, but the "costume" is not quite right!

 

Then there are times like this. It's not something I would use in my shop but I LOVE it!