Yesterday I was given another amazing opportunity to photography the most precious 5 week old baby girl. :)
Ok, I admit I was scared, but fear is not an emotion in which I wish to ever want to prevent me from doing anything ever again. So I took my fear and used it.
I actually enjoyed every second of my session yesterday. From setting up, from planning, all the way to the editing. Babies are really amazing people. They can sense your emotions. I knew she felt my tense emotion in the beginning, so I took a minute, gave myself a mind lashing, and relaxed, seriously the second I pushed fear out of my vocabulary, the baby relaxed. It could have been just because she was tired, she was full, but I like to believe it is because I opened up my love emotion and embraced her.
I hope to get the chance to shoot another newborn soon. Doing so really pushed my photoshop knowledge to the max. Editing skintones is not my thing. In older children and adults you have a give area, because you are usually shooting more then just their skin, you are shooting the scene, the entire clothed child, only a bit of skin is usually showing, well with newborns most of the photo is going to be skin. It is going to be the main focus of the photo.
I want to give my babies a dream like appearance, doing so, you get real close to plastic doll looking edits and there is a fine line I'm trying not to cross.
I wanted to share a few SOOC shots and their edits. (SOOC=Straight Out Of Camera)
So enjoy and if you know anyone with a newborn, let me know! I need more practice!
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