Leon's Baby Tricks

One of the great things about Leon having been a baby photographer is all the things he has learned about how to handle infants. For instance, if you are trying to get a baby to look at you and just can't get them to turn their head toward you, block the vision of what they are looking at with your hand on the side of their head, and they are forced to follow the view to your face. Pretty cool, right?

His photographer tricks are not really to comfort a child or parent any better, but instead they are more for getting the baby to do what we want. One such trick is when the baby cries, you are supposed to make a noise louder than the baby's cry, and he will become distracted and forget to keep crying. It works to get a good picture. But Leon does it a little more often. Here is one such example...