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Look no further than Lastolite’s Baby Poser. I have been using this excellent Photography Prop over the last few sittings and wouldn’t be without it.
The Baby Poser is a multi-positional, modular system that can be set up into different configurations to suit Newborn to walking age.
The poser can be assembled into various shapes to to allow a variety of safe poses.
Parents also love this Photography prop, as it is safe and stable, unlike a beanbag as they can move and tilt when baby moves.
Once set up the Baby Poser remains stable, it is also invitingly comfortable for baby especially when covered with a nice fleecy blanket.
CONSTRUCTION:
The baby Poser arrives in three sections, the main section has a recess in the middle allowing baby to sit in and is protected from all sides much like a deep arm chair.
The second section is a sausage shaped piece that is used to join the third section, but can also double as an extra cushion to stop baby rolling to one side or you can pop under that main section to raise baby higher (when baby is knelling in recess resting on top of the main section) Once all three sections are together, the poser now acts as a bed like poser.
Pro’s
Safe, lightweight (1900g) Multi-functional, quick set up and easy to use, wide range of portrait posing positions achieved.
Con’s
Expensive!
Does it Work?
Oh yes!
Ordering Process
I purchased this Photography Prop from fotoSense for around £90.00, the cheapest I found at the time of writing this review is from Spa Photo at £89.87.
FotoSense where easy to deal with and I received my Baby Poser within two days.
Summary
If you want a Photography prop for your studio that you will use time after time, then don’t look past the Lastolite Baby Poser.
My intention was not to be brand biased when writing this review, but Lastolite have a great product here.
A bit on the expensive side, yes, however you will have your return of investment when Mum & Dad see all the fantastic Portraits of their cherished little one.
Buy it soon, you won’t regret it.
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As we all know babies cannot communicate, verbally that is.
So, “how do we Pose babies”?
When photographing babies, you really need to have an assistant, this can come in the form of Mum or Dad, it would be a good idea to have some props, something that will gain baby’s attention, and this can be their favourite toy or cuddly bear.
Remember photograph baby at eye level, your assistant can be attracting their baby’s attention just above your shooting level, to left or right of your position depending where you want baby’s eye looking.
Basically while your assistant is distracting baby, this will leave the photographer to concentrate on other elements of the photograph, like lighting, background and composition.
Whilst we are working with babies we must remember that safety is paramount!
A baby, especially Newborn cannot sit up by themselves and should never be left alone if propped up.
For Newborn babies I use a large round polystyrene filled foot stool with the appropriate blanket for photographing, for older babies 2 – 12 months I use a Baby Poser by Lastolite, this is a fantastic prop, it has many configurations allowing baby to sit with support, lie facing forward, front end can be lifted whilst baby’s arms are showing over the top.
Mum can still support baby by placing her hand under a coloured blanket.
The baby poser is a great Photographic Accessory and prop that all Baby & Child Photographers should have in their studio.
If you don’t have a Baby Poser, then the use of bed, pillows and other soft supports will do, remembering not to leave baby alone at any time.
I mentioned shooting at baby’s eye level (shooting from above, also makes for a great image) but keep to a minimum, we want to keep baby happy, psychologically, if you shoot low, you are at their level and not standing over the top of them with strange unfamiliar equipment, camera’s and lighting.
To keep baby happy you need to let them do what comes naturally, remember children will become uncooperative if they feel they are being over manipulated.
Posing babies on mum’s tummy is great; they find this warm a relaxing and will adopt this position more readily. Having mum close at hand will also give baby more reassurance, especially in a strange environment such as the studio.
To gain a desired reaction or expression from baby, this is where the silly voice and actions come into effect; always ask mum or dad to do this, after all they will know what action invokes the desired reaction.
Always try and get baby’s feet or hands in the photo, hand the baby something interesting to hold.
It’s surprising how well babies’ hands define a baby portrait.
Photographic equipment to assist in that special portrait, for babies I use a small Elinchrom 70 x 70 soft box and a reflector.
I also use a Lastolite pop up background which is black on one side and white on the other. For newborn I just use the blanket baby is lying on, I pull the blanket up at attach it to lighting stands with clips.
I then blend the background postproduction in Photoshop.
One of my favourite shots is low key, for this I use a soft box grid that fits over my Soft box and offers a greater delivery of controlled light.
Look forward to your comments.
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