Photographing babies is definitely a bit off the beaten path from the usual things that I tend to photograph, but when a good friend asks me to photograph her baby for her 6 month pictures, you bet your @$$ that I’m going to do figure out what the heck I’m doin! I love a challenge! For these images, we wanted to do something studio. Now, I don’t have a studio (yet) so we have to deal with what resources we do have. I have backdrop stands, backdrops and a truck. Sure, I’ll bring it all over to your space! This actually probably worked in our advantage because everyone knows that modeling is a tough job and babies get hungry and tired on a whim, so it was nice to have her in her own environment. For most of the shots, we photographed with a black backdrop, and we pulled in a coffee table that we put a black cloth on top. I photographed with one light source bounced into an umbrella camera left and on some I had a 20 degree hair light behind the subject, camera right. I pretty much kept this set up for the second set and just changed out the backdrop to white and put the baby on the coffee table on some Thrifty White Tileboard (that you can pick up at Home Depot or Lowes) which I got when I was totally jocking Zack Arais White Seamless action. For the first time shooting 6 month baby photos, I’m pretty psyched. Here’s some of my favs from the session:
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big poppa chossflail on 07.08.2010
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Shelley on 07.13.2010
I like the last one. looks like a really old photograph. The second last one is cute too because you can see her big bold eyes
Eric on 08.18.2010
Haahahaa! Awesome.