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dlj97
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
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I did my own. They came out ok, not fantastic. But my favorite shot if all was DS in a book shelf. I love that picture!
Did you have any practice? Do you take good pics in general?
I take pretty good pictures. Not necessarily professional quality, but not bad at all. My pictures just seemed very one dimensional for the most part. I think that's because I don't know that much about lighting.
Thanks. I don't either - my plan is to open all the windows and turn the ISO as low as possible!!!
Take a few test pictures with or without the baby before you make an ISO decision. You dont really want it as low as possible unless you have a lot of light
I meant as low as possible with the light I have - not literally as low as it goes! Thanks!
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tara73
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Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
I can tell you that I shoot natural light when I do in room hospital sessions on a sunny day, my ISO is about 1250 or higher. On a cloudy day with a bounce flash for fill, about 2000 or higher. Shutter speed is usually 125-200.
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dlj97
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
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As Michelle mentioned, many shots are composites. Unless you are experienced, don't even bother with those ones. Compositing isn't easy either. It's really not as easy as just tossing layers together.
You can get MANY really good pictures without putting baby in any danger.
Don't shoot up the baby's nose.
Get detail shots: hands, feet, hair, face, lips, full body etc
Get some of baby awake, some sleeping.
Use your light properly. You can get a big piece of white foam board to use as a reflector if you don't have one. You want your main light to be natural light. Turn the lights off in the room, mixed lighting will create color casts.
Here's a couple examples of natural light setups
how to position with the window
http://www.flickr.com/photos/susan_h/5139982826/
window plus foam board reflector
http://lindsayhorn.com/blog/2011/02/10/natural-light-studio-set-up-for-photographers/
Turn the flash off.
Watch your focal points. Make sure baby's eyes are the focal point, or hand, foot etc. If you can, practice in the meantime on shooting manual and choosing focal points. You want to keep your shutter speed at about 125 or higher. Find out how your camera does with noise (what ISO does the noise make the picture look like garbage? What ISO looks best etc) You generally want to keep the aperture more open. If you put it on Auto, sometimes it will slow the shutter speed down too much on you and you could get blurry pics. If you aren't that comfortable shooting full manual, try shooting in shutter priority, so that you can control it and not let it get too slow on you.
And have fun!
THANKS!!!! I will get a white board for sure! I have an f1.8 lens, so I plan on using that for a lot of the shots. Other than that I only have the kit lens.
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AngnShaun
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
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Posted by AngnShaun
Posted by dlj97
Posted by nferrandi
Posted by dlj97
Posted by nferrandi
I did my own. They came out ok, not fantastic. But my favorite shot if all was DS in a book shelf. I love that picture!
Did you have any practice? Do you take good pics in general?
I take pretty good pictures. Not necessarily professional quality, but not bad at all. My pictures just seemed very one dimensional for the most part. I think that's because I don't know that much about lighting.
Thanks. I don't either - my plan is to open all the windows and turn the ISO as low as possible!!!
Take a few test pictures with or without the baby before you make an ISO decision. You dont really want it as low as possible unless you have a lot of light
I meant as low as possible with the light I have - not literally as low as it goes! Thanks!
Gotcha
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dlj97
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
Posted by tara73
I can tell you that I shoot natural light when I do in room hospital sessions on a sunny day, my ISO is about 1250 or higher. On a cloudy day with a bounce flash for fill, about 2000 or higher. Shutter speed is usually 125-200.
Thanks!
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
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Posted by tara73
As Michelle mentioned, many shots are composites. Unless you are experienced, don't even bother with those ones. Compositing isn't easy either. It's really not as easy as just tossing layers together.
You can get MANY really good pictures without putting baby in any danger.
Don't shoot up the baby's nose.
Get detail shots: hands, feet, hair, face, lips, full body etc
Get some of baby awake, some sleeping.
Use your light properly. You can get a big piece of white foam board to use as a reflector if you don't have one. You want your main light to be natural light. Turn the lights off in the room, mixed lighting will create color casts.
Here's a couple examples of natural light setups
how to position with the window
http://www.flickr.com/photos/susan_h/5139982826/
window plus foam board reflector
http://lindsayhorn.com/blog/2011/02/10/natural-light-studio-set-up-for-photographers/
Turn the flash off.
Watch your focal points. Make sure baby's eyes are the focal point, or hand, foot etc. If you can, practice in the meantime on shooting manual and choosing focal points. You want to keep your shutter speed at about 125 or higher. Find out how your camera does with noise (what ISO does the noise make the picture look like garbage? What ISO looks best etc) You generally want to keep the aperture more open. If you put it on Auto, sometimes it will slow the shutter speed down too much on you and you could get blurry pics. If you aren't that comfortable shooting full manual, try shooting in shutter priority, so that you can control it and not let it get too slow on you.
And have fun!
THANKS!!!! I will get a white board for sure! I have an f1.8 lens, so I plan on using that for a lot of the shots. Other than that I only have the kit lens.
that lens is great in low light. I can get some really good sharp, detailed pics with it. Near an open window I usually shoot with an ISO of around 800. And with that lens especially you may be able to turn down the ISO; The aperature is wide open! It's fast too! I love it.
Definitely take detailed pics of hands and feet. And make the room really warm. Use a heater too if you need to.
Good luck!
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dlj97
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
Posted by KevinNKristin8-15-08
Posted by dlj97
Posted by tara73
As Michelle mentioned, many shots are composites. Unless you are experienced, don't even bother with those ones. Compositing isn't easy either. It's really not as easy as just tossing layers together.
You can get MANY really good pictures without putting baby in any danger.
Don't shoot up the baby's nose.
Get detail shots: hands, feet, hair, face, lips, full body etc
Get some of baby awake, some sleeping.
Use your light properly. You can get a big piece of white foam board to use as a reflector if you don't have one. You want your main light to be natural light. Turn the lights off in the room, mixed lighting will create color casts.
Here's a couple examples of natural light setups
how to position with the window
http://www.flickr.com/photos/susan_h/5139982826/
window plus foam board reflector
http://lindsayhorn.com/blog/2011/02/10/natural-light-studio-set-up-for-photographers/
Turn the flash off.
Watch your focal points. Make sure baby's eyes are the focal point, or hand, foot etc. If you can, practice in the meantime on shooting manual and choosing focal points. You want to keep your shutter speed at about 125 or higher. Find out how your camera does with noise (what ISO does the noise make the picture look like garbage? What ISO looks best etc) You generally want to keep the aperture more open. If you put it on Auto, sometimes it will slow the shutter speed down too much on you and you could get blurry pics. If you aren't that comfortable shooting full manual, try shooting in shutter priority, so that you can control it and not let it get too slow on you.
And have fun!
THANKS!!!! I will get a white board for sure! I have an f1.8 lens, so I plan on using that for a lot of the shots. Other than that I only have the kit lens.
that lens is great in low light. I can get some really good sharp, detailed pics with it. Near an open window I usually shoot with an ISO of around 800. And with that lens especially you may be able to turn down the ISO; The aperature is wide open! It's fast too! I love it.
Definitely take detailed pics of hands and feet. And make the room really warm. Use a heater too if you need to.
Good luck!
Thanks!!
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tara73
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Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
A fast prime is definitely the way to go if you have one, which it sounds like you do. Don't rely solely on 1.8 as your aperture. Stopping down a stop or two will likely yield you better results, since most lenses have a kind of "sweet spot" around there. You're going to want to have both eyes in focus, the entire face etc. Wide open means you have to NAIL focus. Every. Single. Time. You don't want to lose detail. You'll still have plenty of light at f/4 or f/5.6 with a nice shallow DOF and sharp focal points. There are times when you can shoot wide open successfully, but don't rely on it exclusively.
Here's a better explanation http://photographersconnection.com/shooting-wide-open-why-its-such-a-bad-idea/
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dlj97
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
Thanks everyone for the tips! It went ok for my first time, but I definitely can do better next time! Here are a few pics from the shoot!
  
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MrsT809
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Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
Beautiful baby and beautiful pics!
I was just thinking today I forgot to ask DH about that lens. It's a Nikon 50mm 1:1.8D fixed lens.
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
Adorable pics!!!
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
Personally, I find a fixed 50mm lens to be awesome for low light, infant photography (I'm not a photographer).
Really good ones will run $1000, but you can get a decent one for $100 or so.
Practice.
We have some winning ones, but out of thousands.
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dlj97
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
Posted by MrsT809
Beautiful baby and beautiful pics!
I was just thinking today I forgot to ask DH about that lens. It's a Nikon 50mm 1:1.8D fixed lens.
Thanks! I think I have the same lens for Canon.
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dlj97
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
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Adorable pics!!!
Thanks!
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mommyof3girls
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
They came out adorable!! She's a beauty!
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babymakes3
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
Those are great! They just need to be edited to get that professional look. Did you shoot in RAW? DH edits our photos in aperture on our Mac. Every newborn photographer edits photos to even out skin, lighten shadows etc.
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nycgirl
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
Great job!
They came out very cute!
I love the 1st one!
I think they are sweet even without editing.
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apwmjc
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
The came out great! Your niece is adorable!
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dlj97
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
Posted by babymakes3
Those are great! They just need to be edited to get that professional look. Did you shoot in RAW? DH edits our photos in aperture on our Mac. Every newborn photographer edits photos to even out skin, lighten shadows etc.
Thanks! I don't shoot in RAW - I wouldn't even know how to import them!
I totally want to learn photoshop, but I don't want to spend the money on a class (or the time!). For now I am enjoying being a momtographer!
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
Posted by nycgirl
Great job!
They came out very cute!
I love the 1st one!
I think they are sweet even without editing.
Thanks!
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
Posted by apwmjc
The came out great! Your niece is adorable!
Thanks!
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| Posted 1/21/14 9:45 AM |
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
Posted by mommyof3girls
They came out adorable!! She's a beauty!
Thanks!
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AngnShaun
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
Posted by dlj97
Posted by babymakes3
Those are great! They just need to be edited to get that professional look. Did you shoot in RAW? DH edits our photos in aperture on our Mac. Every newborn photographer edits photos to even out skin, lighten shadows etc.
Thanks! I don't shoot in RAW - I wouldn't even know how to import them!
I totally want to learn photoshop, but I don't want to spend the money on a class (or the time!). For now I am enjoying being a momtographer!
If you have Lightroom you can import them no problem and even PS has a camera raw addon.
And to keep it simple, Picasa can open raw.
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dlj97
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
Posted by AngnShaun
Posted by dlj97
Posted by babymakes3
Those are great! They just need to be edited to get that professional look. Did you shoot in RAW? DH edits our photos in aperture on our Mac. Every newborn photographer edits photos to even out skin, lighten shadows etc.
Thanks! I don't shoot in RAW - I wouldn't even know how to import them!
I totally want to learn photoshop, but I don't want to spend the money on a class (or the time!). For now I am enjoying being a momtographer!
If you have Lightroom you can import them no problem and even PS has a camera raw addon.
And to keep it simple, Picasa can open raw.
Thanks. If I imported raw into Picasa, how would I edit?
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Re: Anyone do their own newborn shoot?
They look great! Adorable baby!
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