Mother & Son
A few weeks ago, we were visiting some good friends who have a wonderful pair of (now) six-month old twin boys. I lugged my camera gear, complete with my strobist lighting gear. I lug this gear about on the odd chance I can find someone willing to let me pull it out and use it on them. Fortunately, these friends, Becky and Aldo, are quite nice, too polite to demur when I started unpacking the setup. I pulled out the Vivitar, turned off the lights and started the torture shooting. Over the next hour or so, I sat various groupings of father, mother and sons on a dark sofa and experimented with exposure setting and flash setup. Sometime with a shoot thorugh, sometimes just with an Omnibounce, sometimes with a white poseterboard reflector and sometimes with my SB-400 as a trigger, I fired a few hundred shots until the little ones got a bit cranky. I decided that might be a good time to pack it in. Better to quit while I was still ahead than get thrown out and never invited back!I keep bringing my gear when you go back for visits, but somehow it always seems to remain in the trunk.
I ended up with this image and a few other decent ones. I realized that I could use more light, either another flash or a daylit window. Backgrounds, too, are tricky. A sofa does not work, as it creates a very distracting line in the middle of the image, never mind whatever lies behind the sofa that might clutter the background. I see why so many images are shot on benches, but that is not so easy with squirming toddlers. It’s back to the draing board and the search for more victims firends to shoot.
NB: An esquincle is Mexican slang for ‘kid’.
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