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Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

03/07/2006 07:33:02 AM · #1

Okay, I just gotta do this. My daughter is in town (she lives in Georgia, we live in Utah) and so this is the first I've seen of our new little grand daughter. She's just five and a half months old. And I just gotta show her off! :-)

sabphoto

Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+

03/07/2006 07:34:42 AM · #2

great pictures and beautiful child. Her eyes stop burning from the tons of flashes yet? lol just kidding. Again, great job.

Message edited by author 2006-03-07 07:34:58.

benhur

Canon EOS-40D

03/07/2006 07:50:03 AM · #3

Great pics, really like the 2nd and 3rd presentation pics.

persimon

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

03/07/2006 07:51:46 AM · #4

Yoou have every right to show off! What a beautiful family you have!! The pictures are great too!!

jaxter

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Tamron AF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 LD for Canon

03/07/2006 08:00:04 AM · #5

Congratz!!!
What a beautiful little girl. Is she your first grandchild?
Jack

woohoopepper

Nikon D70

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED

03/07/2006 08:01:30 AM · #6

Beautiful photos, what an adorable baby!!!

Can I ask - were you using a solid gray backdrop and what was your lighting setup for the top three photos?

03/07/2006 08:08:20 AM · #7

Originally posted by jaxter:

What a beautiful little girl. Is she your first grandchild?

Yup, she's our first. And we married off our second daughter just this past friday (she says "kids are a long ways off").

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

03/07/2006 08:11:44 AM · #8

Originally posted by woohoopepper:

Can I ask - were you using a solid gray backdrop and what was your lighting setup for the top three photos?

The background is actually black paper. I have a couple of muslins but went for the paper on this particular shoot because it is a deeper black.

Lighting consisted of 3 lights:

Key light at camera left, about 45 degrees to the subject, using a reflector.

Fill light back behind the camera shooting through a translucent umbrella.

And a hair light which I didn't do so well at adjusting, but I was more concerned about getting the pictures than getting the lights "just right". :-)

missinseattle

Nikon D200

03/07/2006 08:20:41 AM · #9

She's beautiful! Great shots of her too.

woohoopepper

Nikon D70

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED

03/07/2006 08:24:45 AM · #10

Thanks for the info. The color and tones are beautiful.

Strikeslip

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

03/07/2006 08:42:30 AM · #11

Beautiful grand daughter, I love those bunny ears! That first portrait with her reaching up to your chin is simply fantastic, a wonderful keepsake.
:-)

Marjo

Canon EOS-7D

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

03/07/2006 09:14:39 AM · #12

An excellent job on all of these. Very nice lighting.
Your granddaughter is adorable. Congratulations!

jpochard

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

03/07/2006 09:19:07 AM · #13

Beautiful! You have every right to be proud of such a lovely little granddaughter. Did you do the wedding photos of your other daughter?

03/07/2006 11:24:12 AM · #14

Originally posted by jpochard:

Beautiful! You have every right to be proud of such a lovely little granddaughter.

Thanks. :-)

Originally posted by jpochard:

Did you do the wedding photos of your other daughter?

I didn't... I hired another photographer to do the work since I expected I would be too busy to try to take pictures.

BUT.... after the group portraits were done, and while she was taking my daughter and her new husband around to get some couple shots, the photographer turned to me and said... I have another camera in my bag here, just like the one you use (a 20D) do you want to help?

DO I WANT TO HELP?!?!?!

Ohmygosh, I had so much fun! (of course, the ironic thing is that in the end, I will probably end up paying her for some of the shots I took, but that's okay, I had a blast)