With a blog comes great responsibility…….or does it?

I look here today and realise that it has been almost two weeks since my last post.  Me bad!  Wait though, there is a reason for it.  I have been really busy trying to rush those last bits of work before I go on a break with my family on Friday.  I know, I hate hearing myself say it.  Busy just seems like a lame reason.

So what have I been doing?  Well the fact of the matter is babies, or new born’s.  A particular genre that really is a skill and there is no substitute for experience.  Well photographically I have committed a cardinal sin, in my eyes out of necessity. These shots have to be done in a very small window of opportunity at a time when a new family scrambles to get used to the tremendous upheaval.  So the plan was to offer a few (small number) new families the chance to get some portraits of their new baby at absolutely no charge.  There will be photographers now swooning at this as the something for nothing situation is what has got this industry into it’s condition.

In my defence, I had not shot babies this young before, my studio was not equipped for it and I really was not sure what to expect.  All facts that I ensured the parents were made aware of before hand.  You can’t exactly tell a ten day old baby what to do can you?

A chance to play with new ideas, new colours, new styles was amazing, a recent trip to the UK meant I could pick up some simple supplies like wooden flooring and some really amazing blankets.

The end results?  Well after all they are subjective and I fully understand that not everyone will like them but the response from the parents has been amazing.  I have another string to my bow and I do feel that my photography has made a step too.