Alex, Aline and Samuel
05/04/10 19:46
As promised in my last post, I did have a maternity shoot very recently, which although it happened a couple of weeks later than originally planned, came out beautifully in the end.
First up, the proud mother-to-be Aline, who has some real sass:
We spent our time at the Lawns wandering around enjoying the beautiful spring day we happened to come accross!
Alex the father also came across well in his photos as the strong personality he is:
I really love playing with the lens flare on my lenses and really loved the series this one came from:
Me favourite photos though I think ended up being this one of the two of them in this really cool shot. The way Alex is looking at his wife, and the way Aline is looking at her ‘bump’ really makes these two look good:
Aline is due anytime from now, so we will definitely have some more photos once young Samuel is born, so keep your eyes open for those!
Things are starting to get more active for us at the moment, so I can’t wait for some of the shoots we are lining up and us finally getting our calendar as full as it should be! Also looking forward to trying out some new print products with one of our upcoming jobs... I will be updating our site over the next few days, re-organising the portfolio and trying to make the whole site more Google friendly. I am also going to be finally sorting out a twitter account and a Facebook fan page.
Keep tuned folks! Speak to you soon...
First up, the proud mother-to-be Aline, who has some real sass:
We spent our time at the Lawns wandering around enjoying the beautiful spring day we happened to come accross!
Alex the father also came across well in his photos as the strong personality he is:
I really love playing with the lens flare on my lenses and really loved the series this one came from:
Me favourite photos though I think ended up being this one of the two of them in this really cool shot. The way Alex is looking at his wife, and the way Aline is looking at her ‘bump’ really makes these two look good:
Aline is due anytime from now, so we will definitely have some more photos once young Samuel is born, so keep your eyes open for those!
Things are starting to get more active for us at the moment, so I can’t wait for some of the shoots we are lining up and us finally getting our calendar as full as it should be! Also looking forward to trying out some new print products with one of our upcoming jobs... I will be updating our site over the next few days, re-organising the portfolio and trying to make the whole site more Google friendly. I am also going to be finally sorting out a twitter account and a Facebook fan page.
Keep tuned folks! Speak to you soon...
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Maternity Sessions: Jésica
15/12/08 13:41
Another first for us in the form of a Maternity shoot of the lovely Jésica who with her husband Peloi and their son João along with Miguel who is on his way out.
We arrived at her house a little before sunset and although she had just finished work (she still has over a month to go) I wanted to grab the sun which was doing wonders at the front of her house coming through the glass and giving off a lovely glow, so here we go:
I loved the colours on this one, as I mentioned on my last shoot post, having the colours desaturated out of the camera and then manipulating in post is working wonders for me!
After grabbing those, we let her go and get showered and dress up for the rest of the shoot. Whilst waiting for her, my wife pinched some great photos of her husband and son. I loved the candid one of the feet she got:
Her cousin did some makeup for her after her shower which is going to be an important part of our work with Weddings so we pinched plenty of shots of that (more will be in our Portfolio once I get around to updating it):
Some of the walls in their house have some fairly interesting textures, so we tried to make the most of that where possible including the below. I didn’t actually have to add a vignette on this one, the apparent vignetting is actually the flash which after having got some shots using the brolly, I flipped around and took some direct (through the Stofen) shots like the below. I liked the fairly dramatic nature and the specific placement of the light with the flash’s zoom set to 85mm which is the maximum that the SB-600 can manage:
A few more posed shots on the sofa, including some with the baby’s name written on her stomach with lipstick - a little cliché perhaps, but a nice photo nonetheless.
After that, we went back into their front garden and played in the foliage a bit, trying out different placements of the flash to light different parts of the garden and/or individuals. This first one was with the flash handheld off to the right:
In this one the flash was on the floor behind the bench bouncing up onto the foliage and across Jes’ face:
Back inside we finished the shoot and had some food, but I didn’t put the cameras away until we had some final candid shots whilst she was preparing the food, and I loved this close-up of her:
Just before we left her sister who is very good friends with my wife since they studied together came by as she had been doing her evening classes. Again, more oppurtinities for candid shots like this one that really capture the mood of the evening:
Once back in the UK in January I will put these and more in our Portfolio so keep your eyes opened for that.
More shoots to come over the coming days as I try to get around to posting some of the other events we have done plus the stuff we have lined up. Read More...
We arrived at her house a little before sunset and although she had just finished work (she still has over a month to go) I wanted to grab the sun which was doing wonders at the front of her house coming through the glass and giving off a lovely glow, so here we go:
I loved the colours on this one, as I mentioned on my last shoot post, having the colours desaturated out of the camera and then manipulating in post is working wonders for me!
After grabbing those, we let her go and get showered and dress up for the rest of the shoot. Whilst waiting for her, my wife pinched some great photos of her husband and son. I loved the candid one of the feet she got:
Her cousin did some makeup for her after her shower which is going to be an important part of our work with Weddings so we pinched plenty of shots of that (more will be in our Portfolio once I get around to updating it):
Some of the walls in their house have some fairly interesting textures, so we tried to make the most of that where possible including the below. I didn’t actually have to add a vignette on this one, the apparent vignetting is actually the flash which after having got some shots using the brolly, I flipped around and took some direct (through the Stofen) shots like the below. I liked the fairly dramatic nature and the specific placement of the light with the flash’s zoom set to 85mm which is the maximum that the SB-600 can manage:
A few more posed shots on the sofa, including some with the baby’s name written on her stomach with lipstick - a little cliché perhaps, but a nice photo nonetheless.
After that, we went back into their front garden and played in the foliage a bit, trying out different placements of the flash to light different parts of the garden and/or individuals. This first one was with the flash handheld off to the right:
In this one the flash was on the floor behind the bench bouncing up onto the foliage and across Jes’ face:
Back inside we finished the shoot and had some food, but I didn’t put the cameras away until we had some final candid shots whilst she was preparing the food, and I loved this close-up of her:
Just before we left her sister who is very good friends with my wife since they studied together came by as she had been doing her evening classes. Again, more oppurtinities for candid shots like this one that really capture the mood of the evening:
Once back in the UK in January I will put these and more in our Portfolio so keep your eyes opened for that.
More shoots to come over the coming days as I try to get around to posting some of the other events we have done plus the stuff we have lined up. Read More...