My sister wanted some new photos of her one year old daughter Jessica the other day because she was growing out of a dress that had never been worn, so we decided to set up a couple of places for photos with the intention to get some nice final prints done and also a canvas printed. Baby photography can be tricky but as she is my niece I have experience photographing her previously it made keeping her smiling a bit easier and this time she stayed fairly happy throughout until getting restless at the end. The first place was in out living room sitting on a wicker chair using the floral wallpaper as a neutral background, I used my wired flash for this bouncing the light off the roof, and this provides a more natural light on the subject rather than pointing the flashgun directly at the subject creating harsh light and off-putting shadows.
the second place was simply outside using grass and shrubbery as a background, this time I used natural lighting as it was a nice day and this worked effectively with the outdoor location, I used a shallower depth of field for these ones lowering the aperture to around f5.6 which added a nice subtle blur on the lush greenery surrounding Jessica and also bringing out her face.
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