Halloween PennyWise Newborn
Penny Wise Newborn Photography Session
A few months ago, I was sitting in my living room thinking about ways to gain attention when all of a sudden, a commercial for It Chapter Two appeared, and it hit me like a ton of bricks! That’s my Halloween session!!!
With it fresh on my mind. I immediately contacted a newborn prop vendor, Pitter Pat Creations based out of North Georgia that I used in the past. Her quality is UNMATCHED and the way that she designs her sets are spectacular. Together with the help of her children, who knew all about PennyWise, we settled on a full PennyWise set. I knew that the hair and makeup were crucial for bringing my vision to life. So, Pitter Pat Creations put me in contact with her fellow prop creator, Off My Hooks. Off My Hooks specializes in felted creations like the bonnet used for the PennyWise.
Now, anyone who knows me knows, I do not watch horror films. In fact, they scare me to the core and I cannot sleep for weeks. Zombies, nope. Murders, nope. Blood, nope. Luckily for me, my good friend, Heather, is a Halloween and horror film lover! She immediately helped me brain storm. We talked about making a drain for an in the studio set. (Grand ideas… you know, because you can do anything you set your mind too) Another good friend, Rita, suggested taking the baby outdoors to an actual drain. None of those ideas truly spoke to me.
A few weeks after beginning the brainstorming process, I could not get Georgie or the SS Georgia out of my head, so I decided to run with those as my inspiration. I knew that I wanted to incorporate both. Off to Amazon I went. I ordered velvet fabric and a yellow raincoat. This is the image that I had so ingrained in my head that I just had to get it out.
It was more than I could have asked for. My dear sweet friend, Heather, that I mentioned earlier, stepped in to lend a helped hand on the day of the session. She made the balloon possible and she is my Georgie.
During the post process, I decided creatively that I needed to make our sweet model as realistic as possible, so I went to blending our felted bonnet into the baby and reshaping the baby’s head to give the image the appeal that spoke to the image that I had in my head.
Now, where there is Georgie, there is the SS Georgie. I wanted my husband to make me the SS Georgie, but safety is always first with newborn photography. So we decided to proceed with a composited image.
Composites honestly are not my favorite, but let’s face it a baby in a paper boat just isn’t going to happen. First, I posted the baby on the velvet got the image that I needed. Then we captured our handmade SS Georgie on the velvet. Once those were captured, the post-process began. Editing baby was the first step, followed by composting baby, and the final step was flooding the image for the effect that I needed as “we all float down here'“.
Of course in true newborn fashion, our little model got a little fussy, so I decided to give him a good wrapping. The “potato” pose is one of my favorites, and with Pitter Pat’s versatile design I was able to use pieces of the PennyWise Costume to bring the pose to life.
Now, looking at that image and not knowing the posing technique, it can look a little strange, but please note that baby is wrapping in multiple layers, wearing a special belt designed for this pose, and sitting on a ring designed for this pose. Baby also has a spotter. BUT… Potatoe PennyWise was born!
The last pose is the Froggy, which is never a true image baby is always supported whether in a costume or not.
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