I knew the room and window that I wanted to use in the house, since it is one of the few large windows we have that gets direct sunlight in the afternoon. On top of that, the bed in that room has a white comforter and pillows, which makes it even better.
So, the other afternoon, before dinner, when the evening sun was shining directly onto that window, I had Paige come up and lay on the bed. We tried a couple of different poses, with her looking at the camera and looking away, but I think that this one is the best. It gives a feel to the image that Paige is daydreaming and thinking about the baby to come, just lost in the moment. To me, it's a very calm, relaxing picture.
I kind of messed up the picture a little bit in that, preparing to take this photo, I was using a different lens, trying to get this same effect. I had to boost the ISO up pretty high to achieve the blown out window while maintaining a relatively fast shutter speed. I didn't like that and switched to my 50mm f/1.8 so that I could open up the aperture and have a fast shutter and give me a great depth of focus. Well, I forgot to lower my ISO, so when I opened up the pictures on the computer, they had a bunch of noise in them from the high ISO and my point of focus (Paige's face) wasn't very sharp. So, I tried cleaning it up as much as I could in Photoshop.
I really like the way it turned out, minus the mistakes. I've got a few other ideas in mind that I'm going to try with this same concept, but really open up my lens and close down the depth of focus to a minimal distance. But, I'll have to save those for another post.
Let me know what you think.
T
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