Enough with the photos of Brangelina’s twins already. The French-born babes may have lucked out in the DNA department, but so did your kids. Below are a few local photographers who can give them the royal shutterbug treatment.

Classic Kids
With its hip, crisp black-and-white photos, this studio could easily be the gold standard for modern children’s photography. The pint-sized subjects appear so real, it feels as if they’re going to leap off the page. With nine locations throughout the country, the head photographers all train through a good old-fashioned apprenticeship with founder Julie Floyd. The studio offers multi-photograph pieces of art (a specialty), unique holiday cards, custom-made photo jewelry and high-end photo purses.

Adam Morgan
Adam Morgan of Fine Art Child Morgan brings clarity and brilliance to his museum-quality, ethereal shots of everyday life without any planning or posing — the back of a little girl running through an apartment, a boy sprawled out on a sofa, an infant yawning. A master of capitalizing on natural light, you’d think a Hollywood film crew was tagging along on his shoots. Morgan’s specialty is large-format printing.

Sarah Sloboda
With clients like Sephora, Sloboda knows how to make color really pop. Her shots feature kids being kids — footloose and fancy-free, moody, pensive. Sloboda’s goal is to photograph her little subjects expressing themselves in the moment. Her carefully chosen locations, be it a rooftop or flooded street, give her pictures an interesting context.

Nina Drapacz
Drapacz trained with Richard Avedon, who taught her to wait for that moment “that makes [her] heart beat faster.” Those “heartbeat” moments are clearly visible in her portraits and adorable sibling shots. Drapacz offers maternity/baby packages as well as online galleries with private links for each family.

Justine Cooper
The Met and New Museum have her stuff. Now you can, too. Australian-born Cooper captures the innocence and sweetness of a tiny baby’s feet or head, and the eyes of her young subjects seem to tell an entire story. Infused with energy, her pictures come across as being so much more than one-dimensional. Cooper offers a three-in-one Mini Studio Session package so moms-to-be can do a maternity, newborn, and say, 6-month shoot.

Looking for more hot shots? Stay tuned for tomorrow’s installment of NYC photogs.

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