Baby Photography in Wanowrie, Pune

The routine is the subject

The thing you will want to remember is the routine, and nobody photographs it.

Bathtime, the feed, the particular way they are carried around the flat, the corner of the sofa where everything happens.

All of that is too ordinary to feel photograph-worthy while it is going on, and it is over within months.

A session that spends most of its time on arranged frames and a small part on the routine produces something considerably more useful than one that spends all of it on either.

It also tends to be easier, because a baby doing their normal thing is not being asked for anything.

The practical version is simply not stopping the routine for the session. Feed them when they need feeding and we photograph it.

Parents are often surprised that we want those frames. They are usually the ones they return to.

It is worth photographing where things actually happen rather than where they look best.

The changing mat on the floor, the corner of the sofa with everything piled around it, the bit of the kitchen where the bottles live.

Those are the places a household is organised around for about a year, and afterwards nobody can quite remember how it was arranged.

It takes almost no time because we are already in the room.

It is also worth including whoever else is around, doing whatever they are doing, without arranging them.

A household is a group of people getting on with things, and that is difficult to convey with everybody looking at the camera.