Baby Photography - Lighting Tips

Baby Photography in one of the biggest challenges is the lighting.

Lighting babies and children is something that comes with experience. Like any other issue with lighting is the most important thing that you are with a few basic configurations, and then adjust the setup on the situation and motive.

When it comes to the spread of the light you have the choice of umbrellas or soft boxes. My preference, in the studio, the softbox. When I traveled fromCustomers at home I have translucent shoot-through umbrellas. One of the main advantages of the softbox is that it addresses all of the light forward. With the shoot-through umbrella some of the light escapes from the edges and jump back toward the camera. With this, you must be careful torch so always shoot some test shots first and remember to use a lens hood.

Clear screens give a nice effect when you shoot in the flash back to them and reflect it back out in the direction ofSubject. To the soft lighting, you need to do to get in very close, if you use this method. The reason is that you can submit to the distance of the light from the flash increases, and as you know, a distant light causes a harder shade.

Reflective screens are less useful than the translucent shoot-through-style, they are too hard for most kinds of portraits. That is, if you're a harder light, they look fine, but I can not imagine a parent to be happy with a hardlit shot of her baby! Reflective screens are good but for lighting backgrounds.

The main reason for the storage of light just for baby photography is their volatility! For example, you might be willing to take the shot and the baby crawls out of "position" ... if your lights "clinically positioned" and the baby are very directional quickly from the shooting area.

If you keep your basic lighting, for example, two large soft boxes, then gives you more leewayfor movement.

A relatively flat, even light usually the most pleasing results for baby photography. As a starting point I like the main street light to put on one, either reflected from an umbrella, or diffuse through a softbox, between 35 and 45 degrees on one side of the subject , then use fill a similar diffuse light at 1 / 3 to ½ less exposure next to the camera as a fill light. I then just the lights of the subject's features in a flattering way to be fair.

An extremelyfinely equipped child benefits often by the light "harder".

To achieve this, move the main light closer to the 45-degree position. Conversely, a child with large, sharp features or skin blemishes, like a rash, benefit, when the lights closer to the 35 degree position (back ie round closer to the camera) to move and restrict the power difference between main and fill lights for a softer look.

When using a harder, more dramatic light on the children it is important not todo-over. When looking for a formal, dramatic effect, I usually shift of the main light 45-55 degrees. The filling should remain light near the camera. You can the smaller of the light to fill the force fields to deepen the shadows, but with baby photography I generally find that it is best to keep stopping on the relationship within a.