Tuesday Tips & Pics - Evan's Newborn Shoot Preview

This weekend I had my very first newborn shoot! Staci and Andy, my awesome friends from this maternity shoot had their adorable little baby boy, Evan.

Newborn Shoot Tips: (I'm obviously no expert, as this was my first try, so if anyone has any tips to add please let know!) Keep the room very warm! We cranked the heat and used a space heater near where we were shooting.  Me and the parents were dying but the baby was nice and warm and comfy and happy! This was helpful for adorable little naked shots! We started the shoot after he was freshly fed and changed and very sleepy! We did this shoot at 10 days old when baby's sleep quite a bit, so we just had to be patient and wait for the baby to get comfy and sleepy in each position.  I set up a pillow on a bed near a window and used a reflector for extra light.  I put some doggy pee pads under the blankets for accidents, and YES there were several accidents!!! Lots of clean blankets around helped too!

This is the only shot I've edited so far, and it seems the trickiest part of the editing will be smoothing all the blankets out! The blankets were all so wrinkly no matter how much I tried to smooth them!  I used Coffee Shop Blog's Baby Powder Room to help smooth his skin and actually used the skin smoothing layer to help smooth the blanket too a bit.





Here's a before and after for you. Though the "before" already had basic Lightroom adjustments on it, it isn't completely SOOC.
 

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Shannon and Brian Lemon Grove Maternity Session - Part 1

I loved doing this session for Shannon, who was one of my awesome roommates in college! We don't get to see each other too much any more so this was the perfect excuse.  I did this shoot at a park near her house called Citrus Ranch Park that had acres and acres of lemon groves to walk through! I wish I lived closer to this park, because I would love to shoot here all the time!




I think this shot below is my favorite! Stay tuned for Part 2 in the next couple of days! The second half of this set are my favorites too! Also I did my first newborn shoot this weekend and it went really well! (Aside from a few little hilarious accidents!) So I'll try to get at least a preview up this week as well!

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Clare Barboza Food Photography Workshop Part 2

A few days ago I posted a a few food shots I got while at the Clare Barboza Food Photography Workshop.  I had so much fun at this workshop.  Clare brought boxes full of awesome dishes, linens, and vintage trays and bottles to use for styling, and cooked us some awesome food to work with!  Here are a few more shots I took at this workshop!

I had so much fun doing this workshop, I'm going to try to take a portrait workshop next month! Oh and I'm doing my first newborn shoot tomorrow morning, wish me luck!

Update: I got a request to share my lenses for this shoot.  For most of these shots I used my Nikon 50mm f/1.8D  and for the raspberry shots I used a Nikon 85mm f/3.5 Macro. Hope this helps!

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Welcome to the World, Evan Scott

And Welcome to your first of what will be many, MANY photo shoots with your honorary aunty Jaymi! You may remember my good friends Staci and Andy from THIS maternity shoot.  Well last Wednesday they welcomed their perfect baby boy Evan into the world.  I went to the hospital to see them and met little Evan when he was about an hour old.  I'm doing his official newborn session this Saturday.  I'm so excited, it'll be my first newborn session!


Prepare to see many, many photo shoots with this little boy throughout his life!!

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