Day 132 - Annabelle's Trolly

There was a pleasant evening light coming through the kitchen window, but not quite enough to get away with a low iso for a toddling subject.  To get enough light I put a single flash with wireless trigger on the table (camera left) to provide fill off the ceiling, with the bounce card up to throw a little direct light onto her face and give us some nice catchlights in the eyes.

Day 109 - moggles

I couldn't leave this update of the blog without including some moggles, so here they are...

First, one of my last pictures of Anna before she started moving too quick for such a tiny studio arrangement.

Second, Jessica doing some jumping. Oh dear.

Day 98 - splash!

Back to my usual moggles today, with some candid shots of them splashing about in the back garden in Southend.

Day 87 - Annabelle portraits

Annabelle is turning into quite a good model a the moment.  She's very happy to sit still while I pull faces and hand her toys.  I'll try to make the most of this before she gets mobile.

This was taken using the a shoot through umbrella with the YN 460-II as the main light and two other flahes to light the background.

Another smiley colour portrait appears after the click.

Day 72 - Annabelle!

Some more pictures of Annabelle, just after her bath...

This was taken with a little bounce flash off the ceiling and wall camera right.

Two more pictures after the click.

Day 71 - Annabelle again

I noticed that Anna had some catching up to do in terms of the number of pictures on here, so I tried to redress the balance a little this week.

I used one flash with shoot through umbrella and a 1/4 CTO warming gel camera right and a second bare flash as a hair light.  The exposure was 1/60 at f/5 in attempt to get a little of the natural light to act as fill.

A second picture of Anna after the click.

Day 68 - Annabelle

This is my new favourite picture of Anna...

I took this using just a blip of on-board flash to balance the window light coming in behind and reflecting off the smooth wooden floor.

Day 52 - Sian and Anna

Much to the relief of my two regular readers, here's a picture of two Taylor girls.  Gorgeous, no?

There's another pic and the lighting info after the click

Day 24 - Annabelle

I really need to take advantage of Annabelle's current lack of locomotion.  As soon as she's on the move my lighting practice is going to be limited to willing adult volunteers and still life.  To that end I crammed a couple of lights and a white foam board into a small space to produce this...

Thanks to Sian for the peep-o and face making to keep Anna entertained!

Lighting info and another shot after the jump.

Day 10

My youngest moggle, Anna.  She's very proud of finding her tasty toes and showing off her bendy limbs.

Strobist info: Vivitar 730AFC on low power with a shoot through umbrella directly behind.

Day 2

An attempt to get both girls in the frame today.  Slightly ambitious perhaps, given that they were both a bit grumpy.  I nearly didn't post today as this isn't pin sharp, but I decided that failing to have a picture on day 2 would be pretty poor.  I'll move on to something other than children soon.  Something easier to control, like tigers or the swine flue virus.

So, here are Annabelle and Jessica.

Strobist info: Sigma 530 DG Super at 1/4 power above left with shoot through umbrella