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Do the following while photographing.

10) If your baby is verbal, have him or her use an M word.

For example, saying milkshake creates a more pleasing expression than does cheese.

11) Get closer.

The viewer can see your baby better, without unnecessary and distracting foreground and background.

12) Vary the vantage point.

Take some alongside the baby, as well as from above, and below.

13) Do close-ups, too.

Faces are important for everyone, but are a main pathway for baby communications.

Photograph with your camera beside your face

Press your camera against your cheek to help in aiming it.

Or, more easily, have someone the baby knows shadow you.

He or she should place their face next to the camera.

Show your babies relationships.

They may be with a parent, grandparent, toy, or ?

Tell a story.

Even a single photography can express an entire story.

For example, a knee with a Band-Aid in the foreground, and a smiling face in the background, tells a story.

You can also do a sequence of photographs.

Most cameras have an exposure mode called Night Portrait.

This exposure mode is for using the flash to illuminate something close, and slow shutter speed to illuminate the background, at night.

Normally, the background would be dark when using flash at night.

You can also use this exposure mode to blend a frozen image—and a blurred image—in the same photograph.

Try using Night Portrait when your baby is splashing in the tub, is jumping on the bed, or ?

Baby Photography Now! David Jonathan Nightingale