Newborn photographer here! You need to adjust your expectations and then explain those expectations to the photographer.

If you tell the photographer that you expect the baby to have his or her eyes closed in most of the photos then you are going to have a bad time. As others have said, eyes are extremely difficult to Photoshop. The eyes are the first thing you look at in an image, and if there is something weird going on you can always tell.

However, chances are that the photographer has one or more photos of the baby when he or she was blinking. Maybe the photographer doesn’t want to sell you that photo because the lighting wasn’t right, or the posing wasn’t right, or the baby wasn’t completely in focus, or any number of other reasons that normally make an image un-sellable.

If you explain to the photographer that you know the baby was awake the whole time, and you know it’s unlikely, but you are hoping for just one picture of the baby with his or her eyes closed, and it doesn’t matter to you if it’s not quite as good as the other pictures, and you don’t care if it cropped weird, or the colors don’t match the rest of the gallery, or anything else. If you explain all that, then the photographer will probably move heaven and earth to do what they can.

Referring to an image as a “snap”

“Hey, what do you think of this snap from today?”

It’s like nails on a chalkboard for me.

It’s called spot color