Recently I had the honor to photograph a couple in their last trimester, practically several week before the delivery date. These photoshoots precede infant and child photoshoots and most couples miss the opportunity to document this unique stage of their life.
Naturally, most of the photographs are intimate and private (hence I fully transfer the ownership of these images to my clients) but here’s one I was allowed to share with you.
Every photographer who has tried taking pictures in the snow is aware of the Problem: subjects appear underexposed (darker) than they really are. The reason this is happening has to do with the way cameras evaluate light (via internal reflective sensors). A camera evaluates the frame, determines the amount of bright white snow (highlights) and decides to expose for neutral gray by darkening the shot. Solution: help your camera by setting the exposure to overexpose by 1 stop.
This weekend, I am all into my new toy. It arrived on Friday, I’ve replaced the RAM chip and reinstalled the OS to go with fast and reliable Windows XP – now its all play!
This is a pretty low end machine with a sluggish processor and slow 40GB SSD but for what I need (travel, on-location basic image processing and backup, VOIP, email, blogging, browsing, etc) its perfect.
We spend Saturday evening at our dear friends house decorating their Christmas tree and socializing. I was fortunate to snap a couple of interesting shots. Tell me what you think:
The Mona Lisa
The fallen angel
We just came back from our vacation in the sunny Puerto Rico and I had a chance to test out my new lenses.
The following 2 images are done with the 100mm Macro and 24-70 2.8L respectively.
