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A few thoughts from the couple times I did photos for friends of mine who have little ones…
-Communicate with the family as far as clothing to wear. I had a situation where I ended up doing impromptu Christmas photos for this family, but the baby and the mama were both wearing light colored clothing, so when mama held baby, the baby got lost in the picture.
-Put the baby IN things: a basket (see photo #1) or a bucket; is the family musical? maybe he could look cute in a violin case; do they garden? set him up in the midst of veggies; in daddy’s hands, in mama’s arms (see photo #2), in mama AND daddy’s hands together, the list goes on and on…. Be creative with angles and props! And as @rmadaris said, look around at other infant photos and see what you like! That’s what I did.
-Babies are [obviously!] very tiny, so when make sure the attention can be drawn to them in the picture (see photo #3 – I told the other kids to look at their sister, and you actually notice her in the photo.
-Of course, always communicating with the family ahead of time and seeing if they have any poses in mind is great.
Hope some of that is helpful! Have fun – I know you’ll get some amazingly sweet and cute pictures! 🙂