Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Christening Shoot


Regular viewers of my website and blog will no doubt be familiar with baby Ethan, my girlfriend's nethew.

Ethan is now nearly 6 months old, and with his Christening having been scheduled for June, I was asked to take a few recent photos of him and design the family a Christening invite to send out to family and friends.

I obviously see Ethan quite regularly, and I've carried out many shoots of him for my girlfriend's family, but instead of using an 'archive' image to decorate the invite, decided to carry out another quick shoot to get a nice and recent photo to use.

This shoot literally only took 30 minutes to complete. I set up one of my studio flash lights in the living room of my girlfriend's house, drapped one of my black velvet backdrops over one of the armchairs, and got the shots needed within minutes.

Ethan is now at the age where he responds to fully grown adults pulling funny faces and making silly noises, so it was nice and easy to make him laugh and look in certain directions, adding to the speed of the shoot.

Photography part done, it is now over to the design stage, typifying how MSW-Design is not just a photography service - from photography, through to design of albums, invites and other forms of image presentation, MSW-Design is a 'one stop shop'.

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