Post by Kay on Jan 10, 2014 0:05:02 GMT
My friend has a daughter who is pregnant, never having taken photos of a pregnant mum before, I was keen to give it a try.
There is not a lot of examples on the internet of who to for these sort of portraits, many of the hands in the shape of a heart over the Mum's tummy.
But we didn't want that, advice and critique welcome, the main thing I have learnt is you cannot go past a simple background! - The internet suggested the Mum would be more comfortable in her own home….but if there is already a toddler in the house, it will be messy with 'stuff' as will the outdoors!
I did try to do some silhouette images, again the window was found, but the room was so small it was hard to get in the right spot and then there was an awful lot of stuff too close outside the window, I did attempt to clean up the messy areas in post processing as I was happy with those ones otherwise.
The Mum also wanted the toddler to 'kiss the baby' on command…. we all know how that worked!
So that is my next piece of advice, if there is a toddler or other children to be photographed with Mum, a bit of extra patience is needed.
If taking a silhouette take care with Mum to be's hair, a pony tail or as we chose a bun, gives form and shape to the neck that wouldn't be seen with the hair loose. Take care also with the arms, 1 elbow bent behind looks good, if the other is seen that way it looks weird, 1 of mine had that & I had to blend that area from another shot.
Anyway enough talk here are the images, as i said first time, so of course there is a lot of room for improvement, so I post rather to share my learning with others than give more expert advice, which I am hoping will follow as well!
There is not a lot of examples on the internet of who to for these sort of portraits, many of the hands in the shape of a heart over the Mum's tummy.
But we didn't want that, advice and critique welcome, the main thing I have learnt is you cannot go past a simple background! - The internet suggested the Mum would be more comfortable in her own home….but if there is already a toddler in the house, it will be messy with 'stuff' as will the outdoors!
I did try to do some silhouette images, again the window was found, but the room was so small it was hard to get in the right spot and then there was an awful lot of stuff too close outside the window, I did attempt to clean up the messy areas in post processing as I was happy with those ones otherwise.
The Mum also wanted the toddler to 'kiss the baby' on command…. we all know how that worked!
So that is my next piece of advice, if there is a toddler or other children to be photographed with Mum, a bit of extra patience is needed.
If taking a silhouette take care with Mum to be's hair, a pony tail or as we chose a bun, gives form and shape to the neck that wouldn't be seen with the hair loose. Take care also with the arms, 1 elbow bent behind looks good, if the other is seen that way it looks weird, 1 of mine had that & I had to blend that area from another shot.
Anyway enough talk here are the images, as i said first time, so of course there is a lot of room for improvement, so I post rather to share my learning with others than give more expert advice, which I am hoping will follow as well!
