Inspire: One Year Old Session by Caroline Tran

September1st

Inspire: One Year Old Session by Caroline Tran

Posted in: Child, Inspire

Instead of the traditional 1-year-old cake smash, why not do a finger painting session? It’s just as messy and makes for some colorful photographs as well. :) This finger painting session by Caroline Tran was done on a canvas. When dried, they stretched it around a frame and hung it above the baby’s crib.

From Caroline Tran Photography: My biggest tip about 1 year olds is to be flexible and patient. They may not be in the mood to do what you had in mind. Set things up so that it’s in favor of getting good shots, but have fun with the baby and go with the flow if they decide to change the course of your shoot. Many times, the best shots are the unexpected ones.

Biggest tip about this particular shoot is do it when they still enjoy sitting still. It’s so much harder when they run around!

// By Caroline Tran // Follow Caroline Tran on Facebook //

11 Comments

Comment by Caroline — September 1, 2010 @ 7:19 am

Thanks for the feature! What a great blog you have here!

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Comment by Amber — September 1, 2010 @ 9:39 am

Is that paper or fabric that the little one is coloring on?

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Inspire Me Baby Reply:
September 1st, 2010 at 10:12 am
Hi Amber! I’m pretty sure it’s canvas :)

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Comment by Bea — September 1, 2010 @ 11:02 am

I LOVE this, i must do it for my baby’s birthday! Along the lines of getting messy, i love this idea as well! http://www.rachelabsher.com/blog/?p=1160

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Comment by Leslie — September 2, 2010 @ 12:58 pm

Super cute and so creative!

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Comment by efi — September 3, 2010 @ 7:50 am

i loooove this idea!! havent seen it until now!!
so nice colors!!!!

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Comment by Em — September 9, 2010 @ 1:22 pm

I love this idea, if only my fussy daughter would touch paint, we tried a cake smash and it ended in tears, I think this would go the same way!

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Inspire Me Baby Reply:
September 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
I think crying pictures are the best! ;)

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Comment by Sarah D — September 20, 2010 @ 7:27 am

How fun!! What a creative idea! Thanks for sharing.

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