A couple of weeks ago I got to catch up with this lovely little family to capture their bonds and love for them to cherish together. When I photograph a family, a baby or a child, I take on the point of view of the child. I want to capture images that they can look back on in 10, 20, 30 years time and see the love and bonds that existed in their family. We are generally nostalgic about our childhoods, I try to immortalise those connections to keep forever. Also as parents we are nostalgic about our children’s childhood and these special little babies that grow into independent people of their own. So I head into a photoshoot with all of that on my mind, and I want to capture those true, real connections that are unique to these families that invite me into their lives.

This family are no exception. So much love, so much fun.

A before and after:
We lost light FAST in this session and to keep my shutter speed at 200 (fast so that I can freeze motion of running children) and keep my f stop deep enough to have everyone in focus, I pushed my ISO up to 1000 to expose the image (the other option is to use flash). My new 5DmkII handles high ISO so well! I was very happy. My 7D would have made a meal of ISO this high. As it was later and we had lost the sun the images from this part were very cold and dark, so I warmed them up to give them some life and to match the rest of the images from the afternoon that had gorgeous golden afternoon glow. The top image is straight out of camera and the bottom image is the final edit. (This is also why I never give out raw or SOOC images ever from a session. To me that is only a quarter of the job, it would be like going to a restaurant and the chef giving you the ingredients on a plate for you to do it yourself. The bottom image is the photo from the camera brought to life with my creative vision. That is the biggest part of my job 🙂 )