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Babies first smile



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A moment captured forever...

A moment captured forever...
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cameraCanon EOS 1000D

settings Aperture f/4.0 ISO 400 Shutter 1/80 

upload_dateMay, 2014

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3 Comments |
JDLifeshots
 
JDLifeshots May 21, 2014
Very sweet capture!
ElenaParaskeva
 
ElenaParaskeva May 29, 2014
Lovely!!
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BendtheLens August 20, 2014
Now that's a great memory. Thanks for sharing in my project Your Shot.
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LauraMaria August 21, 2014
Thank you :) It was a great moment to be apart of and capture :) and thank you for putting up a project which let me share this lovely image. :D

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#baby #first #mother #portrait #smile
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Behind The Lens

Location

My home studio

Time

Early afternoon

Lighting

Sadly I have no studio lights so I am very reliant on natural lighting. Luckily my home studio is south facing which means I get a good amount of natural sunlight through my windows. I had to do this shoot like all my studio shoots between 12pm-3pm (GMT London) to allow for the best lighting. To enhance the light for this shot I used the built in flash in my DSLR

Equipment

Canon 1000D, 18-55mm standard lens and internal flash.

Inspiration

I love candid photography! And the bond there is between a new mother and her new baby is magical! So for this shoot I encourage the mother to interact with her newborn as she normally does. By asking her to do this I was able to take candid photographs of her babies response and the interaction between the two.

Editing

Brightness and contrast

In my camera bag

Canon EOS 1000D, 18-55mm standard lens, 70-300mm Tameron Lens, 8ND filter and 52mm UV filter.

Feedback

I'm no expert when it come to newborn photography (infact I'm not very good at traditional new born shoots at all) So if you're like me and struggle with the traditional style of newborn shoots I would encourage you to try a more candid approach. Encourage the mother to play/talk or sing to the newborn and just capture the natural reactions and interactions.

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