I had my first photo shoot today. No, I wasn’t scouted to be a baby model. Though, I understand how you could make that assumption. Actually, I’m nearly one month old and in Japan we go for our first shrine visit, or omiyamairi. These days, many families take photos in a studio before or after the shrine visit.
I showed up to my photo shoot in a great mood, but asleep. I remained asleep for about an hour and a half. The photographers were very understanding and were happy to wait and photograph other customers. Mommy and Daddy waited patiently, and checked out the other babies that came in for photos. They thought that I was the cutest, and not to mention the largest by far. It was obvious that the other babies were older than me, since the were able to hold their heads up and seemed to be taking photos for their 100th celebration, but I was as big if not bigger than them.
When I finally woke up, I was still in a stellar mood, but still a little drowsy. We got right to the photo shoot, despite my sleepy moody.
I know the video doesn’t look like much, but trust me we got some good shots. We pick up the photos in about two weeks.
All in all, it was a very pleasant experience. The photographers were very good at what they did and I was amazed that they could get a 30-day-old baby to take good pictures. They kept me happy and entertained, all while drawing my focus to the camera lens. Then they would duck or jump out of the way and snap some pictures. I know it sounds weird, but it really worked. We got some nice pictures!
I did not fuss at all during the process and was a really good boy. The actually photo shoot part of the photo shoot was very quick, maybe about 30 minutes from when I woke up. We did several sittings with different backdrops and then I was done. After that, Mommy and Daddy had to sit down and go through all the photos and choose the ones they wanted prints of. They didn’t need me for that part so I promptly went back to sleep.
So, please be patient for about two weeks and then I’ll show you the results of my first photo shoot. Here are a couple of screen grabs from the videos to tide you over.
