Baby bunny
Apr, 2018Views
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Location
This photo was taken in my home studio in Adelaide, South Australia. It was my first time doing a photoshoot with rabbits (we had two of them together in the studio this day).Time
It was the middle of the dayLighting
My studio has a wall of windows for natural light and I also have continuous and strobe lighting.Equipment
I shot this with a Nikon d750 and 50mm f1.4. Lighting was a a Jinbei EF-200 continuous light with 50cm soft ball diffuserInspiration
My son's grade 2 teacher had two rabbits and she would sometimes bring them into school. My kids loved them, so I offered to photograph them for her (and my kids "assisted" with the photoshoot). As I shoot newborns and babies in my studio, I had the idea to try and do some newborn style poses with the rabbits. I was very surprised when we wrapped the bunny up and put him into the bowl that he stayed in this position and even let us put a carrot in its paws. This is not a composite photo, the rabbit posed like this for us, which I couldn't believe. I was lucky and this photo has since gone on to win a number of awards in photography competitions.Editing
Not a lot of postprocessing. The usual lightroom and photoshop adjustments to light, contrast and texture etc. and a bit of tidying up of the fluff and carrot leaves.In my camera bag
It depends what I'm shooting and where I'm going as I shoot portraits from home, but also landscapes and animals on location. My main camera is currently a nikon d850. I have a variety of lenses ranging from the nikon 16-35 f4 (which is my go to for most landscapes), some fast primes mainly for portraits, some macro lenses and then a 70-200 f2.8 and 150-600mm for the telephoto end of things. My Suri tripod and Nisi filters usually venture out with me too.Feedback
I think I got lucky with this photo by having such a chilled out and well behaved subject who was very used to being handled. My advice would be to choose your bunny wisely.
