Baby Photography - Using Props

Baby Photography - Using Props

A range of props, especially for personel portraits will be useful, for example flowers, teddy bears, dolls, hats, balls etc. Little only by your imagination!

Obviously if you want to remain transported and voyage these will be smaller, any way if you have the luxury of a studio you can use a vast collection of props.

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For example some of the props I use consist of, baby baths, rocking horses, skateboards, bikes, bats and balls and a collection of others. I find an attractive baby bath an perfect prop, it not only looks good but it stops the young child absorbing too far! I ordinarily sit the bath on a table about 2 foot off the ground, the table is draped with a straightforward sheepskin fur and then adorned with some cheap netting material, some of which is overlapped into the bath.

Any prop similar to a mini bath is just as useful, for example a big cooking tin or storage crate. Obviously with this type of holder you need to pad it out with soft material. It also a nice touch to use some white netting to fluff nearby the container. As I said above the biggest benefit of a holder is that it contains the child from moving! Try this with your next shoot, you'll be pleasantly surprised at it's effectiveness to root the baby in one spot!

Last Little straightforward props can turn an lowly picture into something special. One of the simplest and best tips I can give you in this respect is to place a baseball cap on the young baby's head. What would otherwise be an lowly shot can be turned into a memorable and amusing shot that the parents will treasure for years, just by the quick increasing of a baseball cap! Experiment here, use a collection of 'last minute' props.

Here's another favourite of mine, a soft white towel, which provides a natural frame for the face.

Props come in all shapes and sizes, you can use a prop bigger than the subject! You may imagine this would look awkward, any way it can show the loving side of a young child cuddling their (giant!) beloved soft toy.

Remember photography is about emotions, it is about sparking that emotion in parents straight through the creativeness in your images.

Ideally if you are posing groups of citizen along with the baby, you would want to use posing stools of varying heights. For example if you want to shoot mum dad and baby it may be that dad is very tall and mum very small. You can get round this by sitting dad on a smaller posing stool.

Many photographers use a much less high-priced but just as efficient option, bottle crates. These can be arranged and stacked at a collection of lengths and heights and draped with cloth similar to that of your background.

If you purchase no other props for your baby photography the two I would advise would be a small baby bath and a big soft bean bag. The bean bag is perfect for positioning very young babies in a way that allows them to feel safe and comfortable and allows you to root them to one spot.

A Chaise Lounge is also an ideal prop for children nearby 9 months, who are seeing their feet! The curvature on the back is ideal for them to lean over and the height of the back is perfect for this age. When seeing for ideas for selection of props, look at some of the baby shots in mail order catalogues.

Baby Photography - Using Props

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