I shot all the photos for Naomi's birthday in April. But then when I started posting the story four months later, I realized there were important scenes missing, especially with the sewing machine. The initial photos went from the surprise to the hug....with nothing in between....
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I felt I needed more photos to fill in the story, and that meant setting up the entire scene all over again. Every detail had to be identical in order for the new set of photos to fit seamlessly into the first set. The bed covers needed to be the same, the pillows stacked exactly the same way, Naomi's robe draped the same way on the chair, and in the scenes after she'd opened the first two gifts, those had to be positioned exactly the same way on the bed.
And I had to find new pink ribbons to tie onto the sewing machine that would resemble as closely as possible the ones in the first set of photos. Then an entirely new, additional set of photos was taken to fill in the scenes where Naomi reacts to the sewing machine, and sits down to take a closer look....
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And while I was at it, I also took additional photos I'd not considered months earlier. Like the children hugging their Mom...
...as well as a more intimate photo of Baron and Naomi first thing in the morning...
| Photo taken in April...  | New photo taken in August....  |
The new photos fit seamlessly into the story. The only discrepancies in the photos were the heights of the candles in the background, which I wasn't even going to try and deal with. And I realized that I'd forgotten to put Baron's boots at the foot of the bed the second time. But otherwise everything else was perfect in Naomi's Birthday.
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