You may have caught this twin newborn session over on my Gracie May Photography blog. This is the wrap-up for you photogs!
{Technical Details}
- Camera: Canon 5D mkII. I wanted to use my 7D, but the room wasn’t big enough for me to use my 50mm so I had to go full frame.
- Lens: 50mm f/1.4
- Settings: AV mode sticking to around f/3.2
{Location}
In their home. I set up directly across from an open window on a very gloomy day. Still, enough light. Although I would have had more room had I set up length-wise in the room, I would have been next to the window and not across from it and so one half of the scene would have been too shadowy. I had my Speedlite and umbrella with me, but I didn’t want to introduce two different colour temps or have to fiddle with lighting.
{Subjects}
Twin girls Grace & Jessica. They were born at 34 weeks and were in intensive care for the first couple of weeks. They are now 4 weeks old and only 4 & 5 lbs. They were by far the tiniest babies I’ve done so far and was extremely cautious of their itsy-bitsyness so I settled on only a couple different shots. The session took a total of 2 hours, I got peed on only once and one of the girls peed on the other one’s head!
{Ideas}
I wanted to get them both in the vintage bucket which I found on eBay but they were just so tiny that no matter how much stuffing we put in, they ended up sinking down. So I settled on just the one who was up for the challenge.
{Editing}
Both the B&W and colour shot were edited with {what else?} my favourite MCP Actions Fusion set. I just love it so much it’s pretty much my go-to actions at the moment.
{Some B&As}
