Another couple on the island asked if I would take photos of their child… Here is a small selection of the photos.
Jasmine with her mother, Tess.
I love Lightroom's split toning feature! You can really control the look of B & W photos.
ISO 200, 1/200 sec, F2.8.
ISO 200, 1/200 sec, F2.8.
ISO 200, 1/200 sec, F4.0. I normally shoot this kind of shot at F2.8 as you can see in the previous 2 frames. This was at F4 for a little more depth of field.
Phill and Tess were great in helping to get the expressions from Jasmine!
I love the way Jasmine hand is out and she appears to be saying something.
I tired different types of angles. This time, I was on the floor looking up.
Now it was time to change the dress to help keep this collection of photos fresh.
The B & W version of this photo worked well too! ISO 200, 1/200 sec, F6.3.
ISO 200, 1/200 sec, F6.3. I normally would have shot this at F4.
I just love Jasmine's expression and her hands! Another shot I would have taken at F4, but stopped down a bit to F6.3.
ISO 200, 1/200 sec, F7.1. Now I'm really wanting to see what happens when we have a lot more depth of field. I think this shots works. I think at F4, Phil may have been a bit too out of focus.
ISO 200, 1/200 sec, F5.6. I like this image as Tess is engaged with the camera and Jasmine is laughing and looking very happy.
ISO 200, 1/200 sec, F5.6. I love this image! There's so many ways to read this photo. All these baby photos were done between 7-9pm at night and I used a single Canon 508EX II speedlite with a 43" shoot through umbrella.
After the baby shoot, I saw a portion of the wall in Phil's apartment and knew I had to do something with it! Got both my flashes out and asked Tess to pose.
Photo Rebel 
There are lots of really nice shots in that collection, Gwyn. Well done! I think that my favourite is probably img_0739, but it’s very difficult to choose.
It was difficult for me to choose also! 😉 I ended up with 169 keepers and out of that, I had 49 – 5 star images. When the shoot started out, I did panic a bit because Jasmine was asleep and was quite grumpy for the first hour and I didn’t think I had taken anything worth while. But as it turned out, I was happy with what I captured when reviewing the images. The really nice shots came in the second hour (like img_0739). My technique is becoming more repeatable and I take time to check the background and other camera settings when shooting.
In general, this 3 month tour has got me to take, landscapes, portraits, events, sports, etc… so I feel quite lucky to be practicing to shoot so many different types of images.
Nice babies but how about some shots of girls in bikinis?