Six month old Archie came to Dundonald today to visit the studio, and pose for the camera as part of our special National Baby Portrait Club. Here’s one of his lovely photos…
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January SMILE Competition.
How to Get Real, Genuine Smiles From Your Kids!
Children of a certain age can suddenly lose the power to grin without looking like some weird gargoyle off a church! (In fact some parents do too!) The tip to getting a genuine grin is to give them something they really giggle at.
Here are some things you can do:-
- Be prepared to giggle yourself – and if needs be to wholly act the idiot.
- Remember what TV programs really make them smile.
- It’s surprising how frequently Daddy doing something unfortunate works!
- If they are old enough, do they tell jokes? Do they laugh at jokes?
- For young children, if they have a favorite toy the photographer can use it that in all sorts of ways to make them look and giggle.
- If they like a special song or rhyme, then either bring it on your smartphone or be ready to sing it with them
- Make a checklist of funny things and send it to us before the experience, that way we can be armed and prepared.
We like to keep things fun and simple with youngsters. We understand they trade moods from moment to moment. We will treat them with respect and generally mess around with them to help everyone get the final photograph.
JANUARY SMILE COMPETITION
Tell us what makes them laugh? What do you do – or what have you done, to make your kids laugh and smile? Funniest and most original answers will get posted on the blog and the winner gets a free Photoshoot Gift Voucher for our £45 Winter Studio Deal! The answer with the most FB likes wins. Competition ends on 30 Jan 2017. Winner notified within 5 days thereafter.
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Glen & Abigail Preview…
Glen and Abigail, their two beautiful twin girls and ‘bump’ visited the studio on Monday afternoon for a family photoshoot. I seriously couldn’t resist sharing some preview images of this lovely family…
July Baby of the Month Competition!
Voting for the prestigious Baby of the Month Competition (July round) has now opened! Here’s our sunny July Baby-Stars...
You can bring your baby to the studio for a portrait session and enter the baby of the Month Competition too – you might win the national prize of £5000! Enter the competition on our special Baby of the Month page:
July Baby of the Month
The bookings have already started for the July round of the baby of the Month Competition, and first into the studio at Dundonald was the gorgeous Baby Ebony, whose charming wee smile was just so sweet! Here she is on a rug on the studio floor …
November Baby-Stars!
Thanks to everyone who entered the November baby of the Month Competition. The judging and voting is now complete, and we’ll know the winners of our national competition in a week our so.
Why not enter the January competition? Bookings are already coming in, so book your studio session today!
Here’s a reminder of our NOVEMBER Baby-Stars…
Terrible Twos? Not at all!
Terrible Twos? Not at all!
Someone once told me that when a baby turns two that marks the beginning of the ‘terrible twos’ – when all restraints are off, and baby does what she likes, when she likes, and learns to complain loudly when he or she doesn’t get her own way! But not always! Today for my single family portrait photography session at Dundonald, (I was at a wedding this afternoon) I had this really delightful little two-year old, whose activities were more than enough to provide fun for the camera! Including a great desire to carry a chair around with her! (A small Ikea child’s chair – I hasten to add!)
Here she is on the sheepskin rug in the studio..
Shot in the studio, Nikon D700, f/11@1/125th Sec on ISO200
Saturday #Studio Work – #Nikon #BabyPhotography
Busy Studio Saturdays!
Saturdays are great fun at Dundonald. The studio was especially busy today, – people picking up photographs and families in for their photo-shoots. It’s always a relaxed (and relaxing!) experience, both for me, and I hope, for them.
In fact the more relaxed the better! For sometimes that means that we can capture those little interesting moments in between more ‘staged’ posing scenarios. It’s said that a favourite trick of Lord Patrick Lichfield when photographing groups (even the Royal Family) was to formally pose the group, make the formal image and then tell the that the shoot was over – and as soon as they dropped their guard – like half a second after his ‘final’ shot, he would hit the shutter again… and what was recorded was the relief, and the relaxation that come when the subjects realise that their photographic ordeal is over. Those were, arguably better, and more realistic images than the formal poses.
So, I try to copy him! And sometimes it even works for me, like today, when the camera caught this nice little tender moment, just after the the planned pose on a little Ikea table had ended.
At the other end of the scale, in a totally planned and photoshop-heavy image, twin baby girls Ellie and Megan had their turn on the Dreamcatcher…
More from today:
The October BABY OF THE MONTH Competition has Started!
October Baby of the Month!
Do you have a baby aged 0-12 months? Why not enter them into the Baby of the Month competition where five winners each month receive a £100 Mothercare voucher and qualify for entry into the Baby of the Year competition, where one lovely baby can win £5000!
Register today for an exclusive baby photography session at our studio where you will have the opportunity to enter your favourite image from the session into the competition and receive Tembo, your own soft toy elephant. Visit http://www.BobMcEvoy.co.uk/emmas-diary to book your session, or call 07802466302
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