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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Tres finds her feet

Little Tres is now a whopping 4-1/2 months old. She's sociable and smiley and loves her sisters; the things they do to her that give me fits of panic and mini-strokes send her into fits of giggles. Tres can make motor boat and clucking noises (though never on cue when I want her to show off), she loves grabbing at her feet, and just yesterday (at the end of this photo shoot, actually) she rolled over for the first time.

Tres finds her feet

Ah, babies! I love 'em. ::melt::

~RCH~

5 comments:

~B. said...: Man! How do you take such good photos????? You really must come give me pointers (both on the camera and on photoshop)!

Sooo adorable!; February 23, 2008 3:19 PM
RCH said...: Thanks!

Babies are easy to take good photos of because they stay where you put them! (Well maybe not anymore now that she can roll.... Dangit!)

For this shot, I stuck her on a white background on the floor near my biggest window. I put my camera on a tripod and cranked it up as tall as it would go (I had to stand on a chair to see how to frame it, lol) so I could get the good looking-down shots I wanted.

In Photoshop I just upped the brightness and lowered the contrast (which, you can see from this pic taken right before the money shot, it needed). I also put on a Paint Daubs filter to make the printed version look like a painting upon closer inspection, but the blog pic is small enough that you can't really tell.

Anyway. Not much that's fancy-dancy about this photo -- babies are just super cute! (Especially mine, if I may be so bold, lol.); February 23, 2008 3:50 PM
Suebee said...: Beautiful, beautiful baby, with majorly talented mom.; February 24, 2008 8:17 PM
Uno Kidney said...: What kind of camera do you use? We are looking to get a sweet one for the birth of Bruce. Not for the actual birth, but after the birth to take a zillion pics.; February 25, 2008 3:28 PM
RCH said...: Thank you, Susan! :-*

Uno, what kind of camera are you thinking about? A fancy-dancy DSLR? A nice point-and-shoot? A bridge (p&s with some manual settings)?

My camera is a Nikon D70, which I got for a sweet deal on eBay (~$200-300 off retail price, yay). I already had some very nice Nikon lenses from my film camera days, so that pretty much made my decision. I love my Nikon (I always start singing Paul Simon's song Kodachrome in my head when I say that word, lol -- "I've got a Nikon camera, love to take a phooooootograph, oh mama don't take my Kodachrome awaaaaay!") and would definitely recommend it (or any of its DSLR siblings; my version isn't the newest). I've heard bad things about Nikon's point-and-shoots, though, so I'd stay away from those.

Another excellent brand to consider is Canon; I might have gone with them if I weren't already invested in several hundred dollars worth of Nikon lenses and accessories. I know they make excellent DSLRs, and I've heard good things about their p&s and bridge cameras, too.

If you want a bridge camera, I can recommend the Fuji FinePix line. I had one of those a few years ago (it was my first digital, awww) and it was a really great, versatile camera until Dos broke the battery thingy (keep Bruce away from all photographic equipment!). I liked that I could control a lot of the settings, like with an SLR, but it wasn't super bulky.

HTH!; February 25, 2008 6:52 PM