I first met this gorgeous family in early 2012 when I photographed little Darcy at around 3 months old. So I loved having the opportunity to photograph them again, see how much little Darcy had grown and get to enjoy some time in their presence again. This time I got to meet the furry first born as well – Boris. I used to be a dog trainer and am very much a dog person (well, I’m an animal person full stop really! ha!) I love it when families include their pets in their family session. They are family after all 🙂
Category Archives: Family photography
An afternoon with the Graham family in New Norfolk | Hobart family photographer, Katinka Smith
Autumn is a beautiful time of year, so where better to do an outdoor family session that in New Norfolk amongst the lovely yellowing landscape! It was a beautiful afternoon, with amazing light and wonderful weather. It did threaten to rain and a couple of times we had some light spitting – argh! But nothing was going to deter Jet. He was there to run and have fun; rain, hail or shine!
An outdoor family session full of love and fun | Hobart family photographer, Katinka Smith
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 🙂 )
Introducing Baby Kobi | Hobart baby photographer
I recently photographed gorgeous baby Kobi with his mum and dad. This is one of those super special sessions as I was friends with mum in Primary school, she lived 4 houses down the road from me growing up. So it’s awesome to see her all grown up and being an amazing mum to baby Kobi.
Now let me tell you about baby Kobi…he is a HOOT! Such a funny little dude with the BEST smiles and little laughs. He cracked me up! I was even laughing while editing his photos, they took me back! haha
Enjoy this wonderful little man.
Katinka x
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The Nesbitt family | Hobart family photographer, Katinka Smith.
Two Sundays ago I photographed this gorgeous family! It was a wonderfully fun session and we had amazing light and great conditions! We have had to reschedule this session so many times due to the weather or illness. In fact I went along to the session with a nice puffy swollen eye, hayfever induced I believe. But there was no way I was going to reschedule again, not when the weather was so amazing! Here is a little sneak peek of your images, I think it was worth the wait to make sure we had THIS light.
Some more images in the gallery:
A fresh winter outdoor family photography session | family photographer, Hobart Tasmania
On Sunday I met this lovely family for an outdoors lifestyle family photography session. I have known this family for nearly 3 years now! Crazy how fast it has gone! Big sister Lucy is just 2 weeks older than my son and 1 year old Alex is 4 weeks older than my daughter. We are in the same mother’s group (the best mother’s group EVER by the way) and have met almost weekly for nearly 3 years. It’s been wonderful.
I LOVE these types of sessions. It was a little bit chilly but that did not deter us! I phoned mum before the session and suggested a couple of wardrobe alterations – namely gumboots and coats! We had a blast and I am a dog person, so having the family dog along on the shoot was fabulous! Enjoy the sneak peek!
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