I’ve been photographing lots of babies lately for our big upcoming baby project. I sent out a couple of announcements to mommy groups in our neighborhood looking for babies and now I get a few emails every day from moms who want me to come over and photograph their baby. I usually spend about 45 minutes with the baby and then I come home and process the final selects and send them a Dropbox link. They have some photographs about an hour after I leave their house. Technology is a beautiful thing. When I did my book “Naked Babies” about 12 years ago I had to process film and then make prints and ship them to all the parents. It took weeks and it was a lot of tedious work. Digital technology has made this new set of baby photographs much more about photography and a lot less about logistics. It’s really wonderful. Anyway, I had an observation about how I’ve been approaching these pictures. Many times in the last few weeks I’ve arrived at someone’s home at 2 o’clock in the afternoon on a bright sunny day. It’s been hot and muggy and it’s not all that wonderful to go outside. So I do what I can do indoors. Here are a few photographs I’ve taken in the last couple of weeks next to windows. I turn off all the lights and just use the natural light. My ISO on all of these pictures was around 1600 and I shot them with a Samsung NX30 camera. Obviously, I can’t take every picture for this project next to a window, but in the middle of the summer, in the middle of the day, you can photograph just about anybody or anything next to a window. Digital cameras love the light is coming in those big bright holes in the wall. Oftentimes, I feel like the pictures look better than reality. (Especially after a little processing in Lightroom.)
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:24:33 +0000
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