Spotlight: Tracy Raver Photography

The Today Show had Nebraska photographer Tracy Raver explaining her techniques for capturing these beautiful shots.

What do you think? Newborns do sleep pretty soundly so we're wondering why we didn't think of this? A few adjustments- throw in a cute hat for a prop and voila- you've got a beautiful keepsake of those first few weeks. I think we were just so happy she was sleeping, we didn't dare do anything to jeopardize that.

You can see the Today Show video and more inspiring photos here and visit Tracy's website here.

Comments (19)

Oh my these are the sweetest thing ever.

posted by robinm on September 14th 2009 at 2:10pm
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hilarious and amazing... and cute.

posted by eklezia on September 14th 2009 at 2:17pm
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Oh my goodness, sooooo cute. And yet tasteful, not overdone--but so, soooo cute. It makes me wish I could turn back time to get a pic of my daughter like this!

posted by hyzen on September 14th 2009 at 2:43pm
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creepy

posted by Archie on September 14th 2009 at 3:17pm
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I find them really creepy too.

posted by HPez on September 14th 2009 at 3:29pm
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I love the first picture, it's adorable

posted by boxerchick on September 14th 2009 at 3:40pm
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Babies are beautiful as they are. Why add props and pose them?

posted by pennycarnival on September 14th 2009 at 4:04pm
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How are these remotely creepy? They are just pictures of sleeping babies and some are wearing hats. Does that make all sleeping baby pictures creepy too?

I think they are adorable.

posted by Megan in AZ on September 14th 2009 at 4:07pm
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I really like the first two, but I love babies, so maybe that makes me biased :)

posted by Lizzykewl on September 14th 2009 at 4:45pm
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I think they're beautiful. I love the ones with the natural looking fibers and the cocoons around the babes.

posted by honeyhaze on September 14th 2009 at 9:18pm
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remembering how little sleep i got with the first one, not to mention not being able to get around those first few weeks. this would be a great time for dad to take the baby to the shoot and let momma get some much needed rest. what a great gift for the mother!

posted by jackied302 on September 15th 2009 at 7:52am
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Love the two snuggle babies are smiling!

posted by stt64 on September 15th 2009 at 9:30am
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we had pics of the boys taken when they were about 4 weeks old (not even to their due date yet) and they're so sweet and squishy and tiny. i wish we'd though of hats, though. love those!

posted by pyjammy on September 15th 2009 at 11:14am
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kind of creepy to contort the babies into these somewhat unnatural poses

posted by cysf on September 15th 2009 at 11:35am
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one of the masters of newborn photography is carrie sandoval. we were lucky enough to have her photograph our baby boy at 11 days old. i highly recommend this experience!

http://www.capturedbycarrie.com

posted by crdesign on September 15th 2009 at 11:37am
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Creepy? It's creepy that you would use that word.
Contort? Have you held a newborn?
Those pictures are beautiful and each one made me smile and giggle. Beautiful.

posted by 2kidsandus on September 16th 2009 at 12:28am
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We tried from day one to get sleeping pictures of our daughter, and everytime we'd get started, she would wake
up and stay awake the whole time. :( She just knew that photographer was there and did not want to take pictures!

posted by staceylc on September 16th 2009 at 7:02am
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These are magnificent and beautiful.
Neither creepy nor contorted...as babies are so flexible it could be very well that once laid down, they "contorted" themselves into this position.
This is genius and it is such a wonderful gift to give to the parents of a newborn!

posted by klynnmorton on September 16th 2009 at 7:36am
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Agree with Jackied. Between recovering from the delivery and not getting any sleep was a good reason why I didn't get too many newborn pics. It is a good project for the dad or a relative or friend to do. Take the kid to the photographer/or do it themselves and let the mom get some sleep!

posted by kpbittner on September 16th 2009 at 1:56pm
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