Kade, 4 weeks
l.k.madison
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Easiest. Session. Ever.
Kade has a 7 year old brother and two yappy dogs, so he barely flinched when mom and I were chatting it up or we were moving him from one pose to the other. I requested to come visit at naptime for a shoot and boy did he nap. I shot him for nearly three hours and never saw a single tear fall from his face, he barely fussed, even opened his eyes and played with me for a little while. Super snuggly little dude. I'm amazed I got him to do what I wanted him to do.
1. Baby in a star - this is actually two "baskets", one flatter square and one curved corners square. I've had these for almost a year and he's the first baby to ever go in them, nobody else liked them, I guess. That's her living room floor, I wasn't going to pass up the chance to shoot on hardwood floors.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lkmadison/5450721463/" title="Baby in a star by L.K.Madison, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4098/5450721463_507d21bf7f.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Baby in a star" /></a>
2. New baby, dead grass - our grass is all dead and we're not cold enough for snow so dead grass it will be. This is outside, early afternoon with Mom standing on the bottom of a bedsheet, holding it up to diffuse the sun.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lkmadison/5450721077/" title="New baby, dead grass by L.K.Madison, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/5450721077_d85eae4989.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="New baby, dead grass" /></a>
3. Baby in a dresser. I've always wanted to do this, I saw her dresser and fell in love with it. We had to take the room apart and move some stuff around, but it worked - flawlessly. As soon as I said "can I put him in the drawer?" Mom said "whatever you want to do, I trust you, you're the professional" -- oooh, I LOOOVVEE it when they trust me. (the little frame on the dresser says "is for Kade" - both frames were on the shelf above the dresser so we used them)
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lkmadison/5451330896/" title="Baby in a dresser by L.K.Madison, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5055/5451330896_5cae70b948.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Baby in a dresser" /></a>
4. K is for Kade. Boy, am I glad I went in her nursery - these are his bedsheets and I couldn't resist. I'm standing on a dining room chair, shooting down into his crib, window open with mom holding the white curtain across the window to diffuse the light. She was *awesome* with blocking light for me.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lkmadison/5451330492/" title="K is for Kade by L.K.Madison, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5219/5451330492_d6288bedc5.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="K is for Kade" /></a>
C&C always welcome!
Kade has a 7 year old brother and two yappy dogs, so he barely flinched when mom and I were chatting it up or we were moving him from one pose to the other. I requested to come visit at naptime for a shoot and boy did he nap. I shot him for nearly three hours and never saw a single tear fall from his face, he barely fussed, even opened his eyes and played with me for a little while. Super snuggly little dude. I'm amazed I got him to do what I wanted him to do.
1. Baby in a star - this is actually two "baskets", one flatter square and one curved corners square. I've had these for almost a year and he's the first baby to ever go in them, nobody else liked them, I guess. That's her living room floor, I wasn't going to pass up the chance to shoot on hardwood floors.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lkmadison/5450721463/" title="Baby in a star by L.K.Madison, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4098/5450721463_507d21bf7f.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Baby in a star" /></a>
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2. New baby, dead grass - our grass is all dead and we're not cold enough for snow so dead grass it will be. This is outside, early afternoon with Mom standing on the bottom of a bedsheet, holding it up to diffuse the sun.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lkmadison/5450721077/" title="New baby, dead grass by L.K.Madison, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/5450721077_d85eae4989.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="New baby, dead grass" /></a>
![http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/5450721077_d85eae4989.jpg"](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/5450721077_d85eae4989.jpg"){kind=link}
3. Baby in a dresser. I've always wanted to do this, I saw her dresser and fell in love with it. We had to take the room apart and move some stuff around, but it worked - flawlessly. As soon as I said "can I put him in the drawer?" Mom said "whatever you want to do, I trust you, you're the professional" -- oooh, I LOOOVVEE it when they trust me. (the little frame on the dresser says "is for Kade" - both frames were on the shelf above the dresser so we used them)
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lkmadison/5451330896/" title="Baby in a dresser by L.K.Madison, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5055/5451330896_5cae70b948.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Baby in a dresser" /></a>
![http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5055/5451330896_5cae70b948.jpg"](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5055/5451330896_5cae70b948.jpg"){kind=link}
4. K is for Kade. Boy, am I glad I went in her nursery - these are his bedsheets and I couldn't resist. I'm standing on a dining room chair, shooting down into his crib, window open with mom holding the white curtain across the window to diffuse the light. She was *awesome* with blocking light for me.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lkmadison/5451330492/" title="K is for Kade by L.K.Madison, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5219/5451330492_d6288bedc5.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="K is for Kade" /></a>
![http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5219/5451330492_d6288bedc5.jpg"](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5219/5451330492_d6288bedc5.jpg"){kind=link}
C&C always welcome!
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Thanks! His mom loved them, too -- I showed her the dresser shot in the camera and she went crazy over it. It was the first teaser she saw and the one on his album on fb that has the most comments.
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I didn't make the K is for Kade, mom did!! I thought it was sooo clever. She bought the frames and just printed it out on the computer and had them framed. Her design ideas were awesome.
Look closely at the dresser picture, that's textured wallpaper on the walls!
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It wasn't a bedsheet, it was curtains - they were just white decorational curtains that weren't meant to close. Lucky for us, the sun was coming through the window so we opened the blinds and she held the curtains over the window, as soon as I said I needed the sunspots to go away, she was on it. Maybe I should recruit her to come to other shoots with me, she was a great help!
The one of him on the grass, that was a white bedsheet - she had to stand on it to stop the wind from taking it everywhere. We found the shadiest spot she had and it still needed a little help.
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Thanks! I'm a natural light lover (i.e. too broke for a studio/expensive lights) so I work with what I've got - the sun is free!
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I love it - as in, my favorite of all time. Hubby isn't so jazzed with it. Thoughts?
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You asked. The baby looks suspended, vulnerable, unprotected (same way I feel about those ghastly face-out carriers). Great light, though.
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I am not so keen on the angle. As the other poster said, it does kind look like baby is suspended and floating and ready to fall of the bottom of the image.