Baby Portrait - Adrian

It has been a while since my last baby portrait. And after this shoot, I realized how much I miss shooting baby portraits. While waiting for Adrian and his parents, I started setting up my lighting. With baby portraits, a simple one light setup has always been in my bag of lighting tricks. A large soft light from camera left and a large reflector on camera right.

When Adrian and parents came, his Dad told me that he had just fallen into sleep. This is a good sign, we just had to wait for baby Adrian to wake up. After a few minutes, he woke up and like any another baby he was wondering where he was. When Adrian saw his mom and dad a touch of smile came out of his face, and I said this would be an awesome session. Adrian is in a good mood. We hurried down to start shooting.

He was such a good boy during the whole shoot. Can't wait to follow up shoot with baby Adrian.

Here are some of the shots:

High Speed Flash Sync

Just a quick tip on how a High Speed Flash Sync can produce a dramatic image. The picture above was captured at 10:50 in the morning. I just finished taking photos of the ring and saw the throw pillow in the bed. Loved the colors and texture of it and decided it would be cool to put the bride's shoes on the pillow. The first image I took I wasn't too impressed on how the image turned out. In order to kill the ambient light, I had to use a shutter speed above 1/250 sec.
To control the light from the off-camera flash from spreading out even more, I used a DIY snoot and zoomed the off-camera flash to 105mm (the max on a 580 EX II). Image was captured with a Canon 5D Mark II with a 24-70mm lens at 46mm; F/3.5 @ 1/500 sec, ISO 320. Off Camera flash was triggered by an Canon ST-E2 Transmitter.

Here's another example:



Image was captured with a Canon 5D Mark II with a 24-70mm lens at 68mm; F/2.8 @ 1/1250 sec, ISO 400.