Baby pictures are quite interesting for a number of reasons…
- Babies NEVER stay still.
- Babies can cry for no reason.
- Babies can break into a giggley laughter when you pull the right tricks
- Babies are cool.
As you will see, Emma Lindskoog (child of Tim and Lindsay, my good friends) is one of the cutest kids ever! Way to breed guys! Ok, I’m getting a little bit carried away.
Check out one of my favorite shots:
Here was the lighting setup for that last shot:
The lighting setup looks really easy on paper but this was actually quite difficult in reality for the simple fact that I was doing this in a makeshift studio (My girlfriend, Allison’s living room). I was short on space and had to cram lights in some interesting places. Don’t get me wrong, I’m NOT complaining. I acutally prefer coming up with solutions to the “impossible”. I think the fill light was actually a Canon 580 EX II held to an umbrella by Lindsay and placed low to the ground. This proved to be a problem in later shots because as Lindsay and Tim were trying to get Emma to smile with all sorts of tricks (including food) they would step in the path of the light.
You can see that *somebody* got in the way of the fill light here. The picture looks kind of cool though without the fill! It definitely increased the lighting ratio which causes photos to look way more dramatic (not necessarily ideal for baby pictures, but hey).
This ended up being the one that they selected for their canvas print. Lindsay really wanted to get a canvas print that looked similar to the one her mom had made of her when she was a wee lassy. I think that it will turn out fantastic.
Tim got really jealous after I showed him how the photos were turning out. He wanted a quick shot.
Emma likes to think that she’s cooler than Dad.
Oh yes… Life gets rough sometimes…
Oh but it gets all better when you can text on mommy’s phone.
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