Cheers!
Stan
Tanya Mayer Photography wrote:
hi guys,
just posting a link to a gallery of kid portraits that I shot yesterday for those who asked about portraits and the *istD. The lighting was ideal for this shoot and the results were much, much better than the couple that I posted the other day.
This little girl is a very unusual looking child, and it was hard to make her look "cute". PLUS, boy does she ever have an attitude, she DID NOT want to be photographed and is very intense and totally precocious! She is two years old and was telling her mum to "Get Lost"! So initially, I had to shoot without flash using a 200mm lens to keep a "safe" distance from her to capture her candidly. Toward the end, she relaxed a little and I distracted her by bribing her with lollies and picking some lillies out of the water for her to play with, so she became a little easier to work with.
Her mum is a good friend of mine who I have shot many times in the past (whilst she was pregnant and when the little girl was a newborn), but this time she insisted on paying me "properly" and on me treating her as I would a true client as she felt "sick of getting freebies" from me all the time. It was really nice to be appreciated by a friend!
So, she is over the moon with the results, and I was quite happy too, I can definitely see my work with the *ist D improving as I get to know it better...
Still, I think there is a bit too much flash on some of those shots toward the end - still learning about flash in a major way, so I expect that this will improve over time...
Here's the link:
http://www.tanyamayer.com/avagallery/index.html
I love this one...
http://www.tanyamayer.com/avagallery/pages/IMGP1398.html
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I may "soften" the effect of the flash? I do have a diffuser over it, but I'm not getting hotspots anyways, which is a great thing. I am just wanting to soften so that it doesn't appear to dominate the entire picture, such as in this shot:
http://www.tanyamayer.com/avagallery/pages/IMGP1386.html
Obviously, I can't bounce it when I am shooting on location such as these. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Ok, so I am off to Brisbane again in the morning, so may be a bit quiet until Monday - will check my emails in my motel tomorrow night though, so don't go talking behind my back, ok?!? lol...
Have a great weekend all!
tan.
