The bucket option is one of my favorite posing styles.
I encourage you to choose it for your session.
I purchase my props from high quality vendors who specialize in newborns, so you can be assured they are tested for your baby’s safety.
One particular vendor offers the Everlasting Bucket that I use. It’s rust free and proportioned for newborn posing. It’s designed to look aged, but it’s actually a product of our time designed with a baby’s safety in mind.
What’s really unique about the Everlasting Bucket is that the vendor also offers different designs for the bucket called “bucket huggers”. These huggers are magnetic and can easily attach to the bucket to offer different designs for themes you may prefer without me having to actually store a bazillion buckets that take up tons of space. Instead, I can offer numerous options from rustic, to floral, to woodlands creatures, to space and travel, Harry Potter, and much more! At the time of this blog, I have 31 choices that can help add variety to your gallery. You can choose what you like by checking out my Instagram highlight reel with bucket hugger photos.
Link to bucket hugger options: https://www.instagram.com/fridaysfotography/
For safety reasons, I do not try the bucket for all newborns.
Your baby must be sleepy for me to even try the pose. If your baby is awake for the majority of the session, and does not sleep or stay calm even when wrapped, I won’t even attempt to try it.
I have two different ways to pose the baby in the bucket:
I can have the baby partially unwrapped (when baby is sleeping and already wrapped, I just pull the wrap down a bit). Then I put the baby in the bucket leaning forward with hands on chin. If the baby startles and doesn’t settle back into position, I take the baby out of the bucket. If baby goes back to sleep, I’m willing to try it a second time.
If it doesn’t work the second time, but baby will still settle when I hold him/her again, then I will fully wrap and put baby back in bucket more in a secured back laying position supported by a free form posing system. If the baby isn’t calm when wrapped, we abandon the bucket entirely.
I always have one of the parents sitting on the floor to be a spotter. A picture won’t show that the parent is only a fraction of an arm’s length away (out of frame) with hand on baby’s head in between the camera shots. Safety is priority over getting the picture, but when we get it….wow! It’s my fave!!!
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