04 November 2011
Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
such opportunities don't last for long..... I became a proud uncle of a lovely baby boy on 24th October... that the second child of my elder brother.... I didn't wanna lose the opportunity to snap this little angel before he became too big to be called a newborn.... babies don't remain babies for long.... so, time was of essence... he was just named Saadi.... and when we came to know that Saadi was coming straight to our place, we simply didn't wanna lose a moment.... it surely was one of the best days we had in recent times... not just with the camera, but with a lot of fun as well.... Saadi is the younger brother of Tabassum, my niece... and Tabassum is the long-time playing partner of Lamisa, my child.... though they don't get that much opportunity to play together....
Saadi was so adorable and kept so quiet for so long.... he gave us ample opportunities to take photos in several different setups.... his patience amazed us and made us happy.... by the time he woke up, we were basically done with our shoot, and trying on a bonus one....
this is a second attempt of ours to catch him in his nap.... we tried this once before already.... we went to Saadi's grandma's place on 31 October to steal some quick snaps.... but we weren't really happy with the results as he was not going into his deep sleep for even a moment.... this second attempt wiped off the earlier disappointments... but we still hope to catch another session with Saadi before he is no longer a newborn....
anyway, our idea was a to use some props to show how small the little champ was.... and to keep things simple, I kept the lighting setup fairly simple.... used two light here... used the "Lazy Light" for an overall fill and used a YN-560 + 24" Lastolite Ezybox Hotshoe softbox combination to remove any other shadows.... for the first six shots, I used a cheap 28-80mm lens for general convenience, and as I was also using a small aperture for a bit of depth.... for the last four images, I switched to a 50mm 1.4 lens to create a soft look with shallow DoF....
please excuse for the big watermarks.... we just don't want these images showing up in a commercial venture without our knowledge.... we had experienced bad things before quite a few times...
a lot more coming up....
Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
such opportunities don't last for long..... I became a proud uncle of a lovely baby boy on 24th October... that the second child of my elder brother.... I didn't wanna lose the opportunity to snap this little angel before he became too big to be called a newborn.... babies don't remain babies for long.... so, time was of essence... he was just named Saadi.... and when we came to know that Saadi was coming straight to our place, we simply didn't wanna lose a moment.... it surely was one of the best days we had in recent times... not just with the camera, but with a lot of fun as well.... Saadi is the younger brother of Tabassum, my niece... and Tabassum is the long-time playing partner of Lamisa, my child.... though they don't get that much opportunity to play together....
Saadi was so adorable and kept so quiet for so long.... he gave us ample opportunities to take photos in several different setups.... his patience amazed us and made us happy.... by the time he woke up, we were basically done with our shoot, and trying on a bonus one....
this is a second attempt of ours to catch him in his nap.... we tried this once before already.... we went to Saadi's grandma's place on 31 October to steal some quick snaps.... but we weren't really happy with the results as he was not going into his deep sleep for even a moment.... this second attempt wiped off the earlier disappointments... but we still hope to catch another session with Saadi before he is no longer a newborn....
anyway, our idea was a to use some props to show how small the little champ was.... and to keep things simple, I kept the lighting setup fairly simple.... used two light here... used the "Lazy Light" for an overall fill and used a YN-560 + 24" Lastolite Ezybox Hotshoe softbox combination to remove any other shadows.... for the first six shots, I used a cheap 28-80mm lens for general convenience, and as I was also using a small aperture for a bit of depth.... for the last four images, I switched to a 50mm 1.4 lens to create a soft look with shallow DoF....
please excuse for the big watermarks.... we just don't want these images showing up in a commercial venture without our knowledge.... we had experienced bad things before quite a few times...
a lot more coming up....
