Please
tell me I'm not the only parent to have experienced this: You get your
little one all fancied up for a professional photo session, only to
have them balk and lose their little minds at the very prospect.
And
it seems to be an age-related thing. My daughter's first one, at about
seven months, was completely hilarious – she flirted with the camera,
smiled huge for all her pictures, and generally seemed to consider the
whole thing a great time. Five months later for her one-year picture,
her enthusiasm waned, and she just flatly refused to sit for her
two-year pictures (we managed to get one shot for posterity because of
the nice photographer's idea to blow bubbles across the room). For her
last birthday, we practically had to wrest her bodily out of the
studio, she loved it so much.
Now we're planning the same rite of passage with the boy, so I found this article by professional photographer Anna Myers especially interesting.
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