These Baby Photography Tips are part of a 3-Part Series partially excerpted from the eBook: Oh Baby! Turning Memories Into Masterpieces." We hope this series helps your family create a lifetime of miraculous pictures.
Baby Poses: 0 – 3 Months
Think of this period in your baby’s photographic life as the molding stage. Like Gumby, you can pretty much place the baby in any position you want.
No guarantees how long they will stay there, but if you have all the camera details worked out beforehand, you can "position & shoot" pretty quickly. (If someone else is posing the baby while you are already in the perfect camera position, so much the better.)
Baby Photography Tips Known As "Baby Bits"
This is the time to capture those adorable little baby parts. They will never look cuter than at this age! These images demonstrate some key points:
Just because you start with a color image, doesn't mean you have to end up with one.
Black & White images can create quite an impact. Check your camera and photo-imaging software for ways to make the transition from color to black & white fairly easy.
Sometimes, baby feet (or hands, eyes, noses, etc.) alone can make a wonderful photograph.
And, when you add a parent's hand(s) or face to the picture, an entirely different effect is created.
Baby Photography Tips on How to Play With Perspective
Expand the envelope. Forget what you’ve always done and try something different.
For example, in the image to the left, the feet look enormous and the head looks quite small (see it, just above the big toe?).
Believe it or not, you could easily take 100 photographs of a sleeping baby, and never take 2 that are identical.
The huge advantage of digital photography is the ability to take tons of photos and delete the ones you don't like. This allows great creative liberties.
This prize-winner combines shadow, light, and lots of emotion, all in a perfect composition.
To achieve something like this, you will need to create multiple areas of light and shadow, either from natural light sources or from one or more off-shoe flash unit(s).
This image is something to strive toward, after the basics are understood and applied. However, as you can see in this image, the light source is coming from several directions: from the right and from the direction of the camera.
It is possible to manipulate the environment to duplicate this effect, but the main point is to try things that you haven't before. What's the worst that could happen... a few deleted files?
Honorable Mention goes to the following Baby Bits:
Note the creativity expressed in these two images.
Once you begin to think about photographing babies in a unique way, all sorts of new posing ideas will emerge.
Another approach is to use your camera's macro setting. Then focus on a small distinctive area, such as the baby's face.
With the use of a tripod, focus solely on the eye, thus pushing the nose and everything else out of focus. Experiment with how tight a crop is necessary to produce the desired effect. This can produce an almost mesmerizing effect.
Although more challenging with babies, it is possible (and very dramatic) to catch the reflection of an object in the baby's eye. For that type of image, an extreme crop would be optimal.
Here is one more baby photography tip to note...
Key off a brightly color object in the photo (as long as it is relevant, of course).
In the case of this image, the object plays off a solitary hand, which is made even more effective by using a very close crop.
This is the time to capture those adorable little baby parts. They will never look cuter than at this age! These images demonstrate some key points:
Sometimes, baby feet (or hands, eyes, noses, etc.) alone can make a wonderful photograph. 
Expand the envelope. Forget what you’ve always done and try something different. 
This prize-winner combines shadow, light, and lots of emotion, all in a perfect composition. 
Note the creativity expressed in these two images. 
Here is one more baby photography tip to note...