{THE Shot}

When I first got pregnant with Logan, I immediately started dreaming about all the amazing practice I'd get taking shots of him as a newborn. One shot in particular I just knew I had to have. The hanging baby shot. I've seen these types of shots everywhere, on just about every newborn photographer's website. I've attempted this shot only once before, and it was "mocked" and I turned to photoshop to make it look perfect and create the illusion that it was actually hanging, but it still just didn't quite turn out as I'd hoped.

A few weeks ago, while hosting a newborn shoot with Logan for our meet-up group, I met a fellow photographer who also was dying to attempt the hanging baby shot. We both laughed about how we'd really wanted to try it, but were actually too scared to do it with a clients baby for fear of all that could go wrong with it. So I invited her over to my studio to use Logan as our guinea pig. I know, I'm in the running for mother of the year award here.

It only took us nearly 2 hours to finally get him sleeping well enough to attempt it. With a few minor issues, we finally did it. My poor husband. He was the one holding the branch, since the branch is so uneven and I didn't have anything to evenly balance it on. I think it worked out amazingly. I finally got THE shot I've been dying for. Who knew a mother could get so excited about her newborn hanging from a tree branch? Certainly makes me more excited for the upcoming new years and more clients with wonderful newborns!