No, this isn’t promoting cannibalism, but it is reiterating using what you have and using it in different ways. Using the same pots I used in the previous post, I flipped them proper and put a baby in the big put. I also brought the light up and added a sheet to the table.
Once again, her mom was on set to help get her to the look the proper direction, but it is okay if she didn’t look the right way. One thing I try to do when dealing with babies is obviously have a parent on set, but I also try to be strategic about parent positioning. In one of these photos she is looking directly at her mom – but since I put her mom in a specific shot when she looks at her mom we can still see both eyes.
This is basic photography but it’s worth reminding because it is so important to the human experience – the eyes are our first major point of contact with other humans. So, it stands to reason what you are doing with the eyes in a photograph that has a person will set up quite a bit of the tone and theme of everything else in the picture. When I am photographing a baby, I try to make sure both eyes are in the shot, even if those eyes aren’t looking at the camera.
For this shot, it was one back light with a blue gel. A key light with an octobox and a fill light with a longbox off to the side.