My friend has her baby cousin Daniel every Thursday. As I've never photographed a very young child before I wanted to give it a go. I had to attempt the shoot twice as the first time Daniel was hysterically crying. At first I thought it may have been because of the lights flashing and him not being used to it, however the second time we did the shoot he was still very grizzly, when his Mum came to pick him up she informed us that he was teething. Despite being faced with this difficulty we managed to calm him down by feeding him raisins which may be noticeable in some of the images. I feel I managed to capture some natural images including some of him crying, I didn't manage to capture any images of him smiling due to his grisliness. I am really happy with how the images look however I would like to photograph him again and capture the adorable smile I know he has.
I would display them a lot bigger (large), as these images have a lot more detail than is lost in such small images. You have used the perfect DOF to capture and draw attention to the facial features and the tones used work for his mood.
ReplyDeleteI particularly like image 5 and 10 i think they hold a lot of emotion, there like they calm after the storm.
as far as him not liking you flash have you tried bouncing the flash off the walls? or feathering(turing it sideways to get a softer light) it so its not so dramatic? it would also be nice to see him play this could be done buy a window allowing you to use natural light.