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cameraCanon EOS 5D Mark II

settings Aperture f/4.5 ISO 100 Shutter 1/160 Focal Length 50/1 

upload_dateJun, 2015

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2 Comments |
JRegala
 
JRegala December 14, 2016
She's SO CUTE :)
Mel001
 
Mel001 December 21, 2016
Gorgeous image. Well done

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Behind The Lens

Location

I am a photographer who specializes in newborn and maternity and this photo was taken in my home studio in Granada Hills California. This is in the Los Angeles area.

Time

This newborn session was taken around 1:30 in the afternoon. I normally like to schedule newborn photo sessions in the early to mid morning but this family had to drive an hour and a half to my home studio so we scheduled the session a little later in then normal. It seem to be the perfect time for this little one because she smiled from ear to ear through the whole session. I typically get smiles, but not through the whole session and not was big as this little ones smile. This photo always seems to brighten up my day.

Lighting

My light set up was a AlienBees B800 Flash Unit and a 64" White PLM with a black outer cover. I have two sliding glass doors to the left and the umbrella was about 6ft tall right in front of the baby. On occasion I set my Alien Bee just to be a fill flash and use most of the natural light that comes into my studio but on this session, I used mostly my AlienBee to give me most of my light. If I have to describe my light output, I would say it is soft, flat light. I do not use to much dimension or shadows with newborn. I want the light to be soft and subtle.

Equipment

This was shot with a Canon Mark II, 50mm 1.8 lens. Nothing too fancy. I shot in RAW format, 160 at f4.5. Happy I recently upgraded to a Canon Mark III and my 24 - 70mm 2.8 that rarely leaves my camera. My sweet spot for aperture is usually around 4 - 5.6. Seems to always works to get me my shot no mater what lens I use. I use my Pocket Wizard Plus X units to trigger my Alien Bees. I started with inexpensive triggers when I was starting out but they missed fired more than they fired so I figured if I want the job done right, buy the better triggers. I have had my Pocket Wizard triggers for 2 years now and they never let me down. On the go or in studio.

Inspiration

I am a newborn and maternity photographer and my inspiration is that she was a newborn and I was excited to use my newly purchased flower bonnets. I typically purchase my bonnets from Whippoorwillnest.com. She is fantastic at making specialty bonnets for newborns and toddlers. Unlike anything I have seen out there on the market. And believe me, there are a lot of vendors on the market selling newborn props.

Editing

I always start in camera raw. My typical approach is to start with lens correction, sharpening the image, noise reduction and then onto contrast, black & white adjustments and of coarse white balance. I usually photograph a gray card to use to set my white balance for each newborn setup I create. Each newborn photo session consists of 3 different setups. Then on to Photoshop. For newborns I keep it rather simple, take away the scratch marks or obvious skin problems that would not normally be there. Crop to the vision I see for the photograph and last but not least I use Portraiture for some lite skin softening. Portraiture is a plug in and I usually keep the settings on default settings, which is the minimal skin softening I need for newborns. Newborns are typically so perfect and don't need much.

In my camera bag

In my bag I normally keep my Canon 5D Mark III, Canon 24 - 70mm 2.8, if I need a little more focal length Canon 24 -105mm 4.0, and my Canon 50mm 1.8 is in my bag and I still bring it out to use the shallow depth of field 1.8 -2.5 to get the details and focus on the tiny features of the newborns. I keep my Canon 580ex flash unit for on the go. I have a Rogue flash bender for a light modifier for the flash. And I have 2 Pocket Wizard Plus X triggers for my off camera flash on the go. I have a grey card to help set my white balance for each session. I keep about 4 extra camera batteries.

Feedback

Photographing newborns can be difficult at times. They eat a lot, they can cry a lot a times and the best advise I can give to a beginner is to have patience. Every parent that comes my ways says to me, you have so much patience and I couldn't do what you do. I love it, so for me, its enjoyable. For newborns lots of flat, soft lighting is my go to for newborn setup.

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