The Le / La Bump Series
I always regretted not taking photos of my wife when she was expecting. So now that my daughter is imminent I thought it wise not to repeat past mistakes. In truth the planning for the new baby is the reason (read good excuse) why I bought the X10 a few months back.
Posed photos are not something that I enjoy doing or feel comfortable with and I much prefer ad hoc wandering and snapping. So over the past couple of days I put some thought into how to go about it and produced a quick storyboard of the potential shots which I hoped could work. I’m glad I did this as it channelled my direction & helped to communicate the poses. My priority was not about capturing normal portrait shots as I thought the main star of the show ought to be the Le / La Bump. I also wanted the photos to show their loving relationship. (Le / La as they have decided not to know beforehand and enjoy the surprise.)
I had the wrong settings in the First photo session so results were not as good as I hoped for and the images required a fair bit of work in post processing to get a decent result. Not all time wasting however as it forced my arm into using Silkypix resulting in me now having a bit better understanding of the functions. The Second session worked much better or at least with less frustration.
Here is a small selection from the zillions
R Storyboard by roger-evans, on Flickr
DSCF3250-004b by roger-evans, on Flickr
97 BW Soon Very Soon-002 by roger-evans, on Flickr
DSCF3278-007b by roger-evans, on Flickr
87 Col At Rest SP5 -005 by roger-evans, on Flickr
DSCF3289-006b by roger-evans, on Flickr
DSCF3239-014b by roger-evans, on Flickr
I always regretted not taking photos of my wife when she was expecting. So now that my daughter is imminent I thought it wise not to repeat past mistakes. In truth the planning for the new baby is the reason (read good excuse) why I bought the X10 a few months back.
Posed photos are not something that I enjoy doing or feel comfortable with and I much prefer ad hoc wandering and snapping. So over the past couple of days I put some thought into how to go about it and produced a quick storyboard of the potential shots which I hoped could work. I’m glad I did this as it channelled my direction & helped to communicate the poses. My priority was not about capturing normal portrait shots as I thought the main star of the show ought to be the Le / La Bump. I also wanted the photos to show their loving relationship. (Le / La as they have decided not to know beforehand and enjoy the surprise.)
I had the wrong settings in the First photo session so results were not as good as I hoped for and the images required a fair bit of work in post processing to get a decent result. Not all time wasting however as it forced my arm into using Silkypix resulting in me now having a bit better understanding of the functions. The Second session worked much better or at least with less frustration.
Here is a small selection from the zillions
R Storyboard by roger-evans, on Flickr
DSCF3250-004b by roger-evans, on Flickr
97 BW Soon Very Soon-002 by roger-evans, on Flickr
DSCF3278-007b by roger-evans, on Flickr
87 Col At Rest SP5 -005 by roger-evans, on Flickr
DSCF3289-006b by roger-evans, on Flickr
DSCF3239-014b by roger-evans, on Flickr