Monday, July 19, 2010

Exploitation

I've always enjoyed looking at creative newborn portraits-- soft and wrinkly new babies sweetly snuggled in little props. So I determined that now that I have a good camera (thanks to my brother), I would just have to try my hand at photographing my own baby.

So this morning when Evan was good and sleepy, Mom and I gathered our props and set to it. Mom did the baby-wrangling while I worked the camera. It was so fun. We laughed and giggled at his adorable sleepy expressions as the camera clicked away. We kept going until Evan ended the session with an, um, explosive outburst.

I selected a few of the 75 shots and did some post processing in Gimp to try to get that soft portrait feel. Can't say I'm all that good at it, but I'm happy with the results of my first try.










































8 comments:

  1. Wha...? There is a day coming some 12-18 years from now when that kid is going to be pissed about this.

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  2. Yeah, we acknowledged that when we were doing it!
    We really needed some of your good lenses too.

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  3. Yeah. I know. But he's just so cute.

    And what gives? No props for my madd photog skilz?

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  4. ps. Widdly Tink family needs to be updated :)

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  5. vera vera cute!!!!! and an adorable wee bum he has too. Your close up of his little toes is so fun. Really good pics!!!

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  6. You two did an amazing job. And I know you know your brother is right...

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  7. How adorable! I just had to laugh at the end of session explosion. LOL

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