Denton at 3 months of age

I’ve been working on high key images today from a session I did of our 3 month old grandson. I love the look of high key images but they are a challenge for me. For this particular session I was using window light, a reflector, & used my off-camera flash to bounce light from the ceiling, all in a location that was not in the studio. The images were great….we got some really big smiles. I was happy with the histogram reading and then when I start the editing process that is when I start to think maybe I should have done this or that. Anyway all a part of my learning process but I do know it is a process that I want to continue to perfect because as I said, I love the look of high key images. Here is the end result of some of my favorite images.

I had the opportunity last week-end to take the camera and just shoot for pure enjoyment, no pressure to capture anything in particular. I had been wanting to try the multiple exposure setting on my camera so I set the settings I wanted & did some shooting. I set the exposure for 3 exposures. It was fun and I came up with some interesting images. I began to realize as I went along that, like any image, there needed to be some previsualization involved if I wanted an image with particular elements in it and with a particular style. For instance if I just took 3 exposures of trees but at different angles or location, the image was just layers of trees. But if I took 2 exposures of the trees and then thought about where I would place the 3rd exposure of a horse then I could create an image that had more of a Bev Doolittle effect to it – you know the prints where an image is hidden among the imagery and you have to search for it. Or if I tried a light image first then took 2 more exposures of darker images then my first exposure was lost behind the darker exposures. I tried different elements in the setting I was in – trees, an old barn, horses, blue sky, dirt roads, close up head shots with eyes and ears of the horses. My favorites were the images where I combined the barn, horses, & blue sky or the trees and horses. It was a fun exercise and one that I will certainly try more creativity with.