Harlow- 6 months: Oshawa_ Baby_Portrait _studio_ Petra_King_Photography
Meet Harlow. This little sweet cheeked girl came in for her 6 month session not too long ago with mom. She is the little sister of one of my long time clients and I was so excited to meet her. Her personality and expressions kept the whole studio giggling and on our toes.
Harlow had some gorgeous fresh flowers to adorn her photoshoot care of my wonderful girl over at Aspen Florist. Aren’t these just gorgeous? These stunning milestone floral numbers go home with my clients and smell heavenly. Here is Harlow and her umber 6!
These sweet curious baby blues….
A stunning sweet custom floral headband that also went home with mom. These are all custom made for each session for your baby.
Lindsay…thank you so much for coming into the studio to help celebrate this little pudding’s 6 months shoot! We loved every minute of it and hope you both did too! Can’t wait to see you for her one year!
Happy growing Harlow!
xo
Petite Baby Sessions: 6-12 months
Happy New Year!
I do hope you and your family had a great Christmas vacation and are well rested and ready for 2019?
We cannot wait to get back into the swing of things for you and are super excited to offer this Limited Edition Petite Baby Collaboration Sale for you starting on February 1st-8th, 2019! These sessions are perfect for babies 6-12 months.
Picture this...your session will include wardrobe thanks to Petit Nordique, creative set to include winter greenery by the very talented Aspen Florist and use of the studio's accessories and toys for your little ones updated portraits.
Here's what's included:
30-40 min baby experince studio session
Wardrobe outfits from Petit Nordique
Creative set ups from Aspen Florist
Studio accessories and toys
10 High Resolution Digital Photographs
Copy of Print Release for personal use
These will sell out fast! This amazing sale will not be replicated again this year! Now is the time to reserve. Contact me via email or Instagram to book your session before they go!
We can't wait to pamper you with a Baby Session experience at Petra King Photography that will have you falling in love with every detail!
See you and your little one soon.
P.S. Yes we work around nap schedules too! Happy babies means happy moms and dad's!
P
xo
Mommy and Me Mother's Day Special
It's NEVER to early to start thinking about Mother's Day! Mother's are SO important agreed? Being a mother is one of the most greatest gifts God has bestowed upon us. You are everything in your children's and husband's eyes. Mommy and Me Mini Sessions are here to help celebrate with you! To celebrate YOU! Think of all the times in your life when you've needed your own mother. All the laughs, the milestones that she has shared with you and when the tears arrive, she has comforted and loved you unconditionally!
Come on out and book a mini session today. Contact me at: petraking@rogers.com
Before and After: Post processing help
I frequently get asked about my work. About the workflow and how you get from point A ( taking your a picture) to point B ( the final result). So I thought today would be a good time as any to help you and explain a few simple steps what I do. So let's start with a simple image. Attached here is one from a recent newborn session. This is straight out of the camera. Or in a photographers lingo SOOC. So let's start with an image. These twin brothers were in studio a few weeks ago. My studio set up consists of a single Elinchrom Octabox. I use an awesome bean bag that the little ones lay on. I absolutely love it. By far one of my best investments for the business. The bean bag is from Shoot Baby.
This set up was pretty simple. Babies were laying on the throw, a space heater off to the side. It's VERY important that while photographing newborns, they are kept warm, comfortable and full tummies. It makes ALL the difference in your images. My lighting was off to the side at a 45 degree angle from where I was ( straight overhead babies) After a few test shots, I decided to raise up the octabox slightly higher so that baby B ( on your right) wasn't in too much of a shadow from his older brother.
Camera settings were 1/125th, ISO 100 ( I always keep at this when shooting with studio lighting) and I used my 50mm 1.4. My f/stop was at 5.6 here.
SO here is my SOOC.
It's important to me to get a good exposure as best as possible in camera. The more you practice with your camera and get to know your settings, the easier this will be. Benefits of doing so will allow you to cut your post processing time down drastically! Therefore creating a smoother and quicker workflow for your business.
Seen above, image is not too bad, however here is the final image I created for mom and dad.
Sweet isn't it? Ok let me tell you how I got here. I opened the image up in Adobe Lightroom and adjusted the white balance. Babies had a slight bit of jaundice so I needed to remove some yellow in the skin tones. Once done, I exported to Photoshop. I still use CS3 ( have an upgrade just not got there yet lol) Why do I need to export? Because I need to convert my files from my camera into a DNG format. I do 90% of my work in PS vs LR. After I've opened up the image in PS I can then do any cropping and editing I would like. I crop all my images to an 8x10 format. Once done, I knew I wanted to lighten the image some more. I added an curve layer to the image and increased ever so slightly. Again, the more you work with your images in Photoshop, the more your eyes will be trained to know what looks good and what doesn't work.
Since I already adjusted the white balance on this image, and when I lightened it I wanted to add a slight bit of color back into the babies skin. The lighter an image is, it tends to wash out your tones. In order to do this I again added a layer adjustment and increased my saturation to 3-5%. Can't remember exactly. Almost done! From here I used an action called "Clarify". I always use this as a layer so that I can go back and adjust as needed. I never leave it at 100%. For me I can easily tell a digital image over a film one. The clarify action was run about 25% I believe. And voila! My finished product.
Mom and Dad loved this image so much they used it for their Birth Announcements as well as a gorgeous 16x20 Canvas to hang in their home.
If you enjoyed this post, that's awesome! I will be posting more content that will be helpful to you as well as educational. Should you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask!
Drop me a line at petraking@rogers.com
Thanks a million and chat soon!
P
Pregnancy Photography:: Why you should consider it.
You've hear it many times before from both family and friends, that time goes by so fast when you are pregnant. Enjoy it! Each pregnancy is SO different. Very few of us luck out with smooth sailing the entire way while other's may have a difficult time. Either way, you are growing new life inside you. That is a miracle in itself! A few weeks ago my husband came across a wonderful article on maternity photography. After reading it I knew that I had to share it with you all. Gone are the days of wearing tent like dresses or potato sacks to hide you from neck to floor. Women in our generation embrace each curve and bump and so they should. A pregnant woman is beautiful, all shapes and sizes. Can't see your feet? Don't worry, have a girlfriend give you a pedi and believe me, you'll feel great!
Check out this article on maternity sessions, well written and definitely food for thought. Book your session today and let's go with the flow. I promise you'll love our session and time together!
Ajax, Oshawa, Children, Family Photographer:: 3 little monkey's...
One of the highlights of being a photographer is the pleasure of seeing your repeat clients and watching their families grow. It's truly is an honour to walk with you and steal some precious moments together once again. This was the case earlier this week when I met this sweet young, fun family from Oshawa. A little over 2 years have passed since I've seen them last. As I photographed their middle daughter's newborn pictures. How she's grown and what a little cutie she is. Talk about personality. Sure rings true that the 2nd child is SO different and fearless to a first born! Both girls are brown eyed beauties. Funny I see a lot of what I used to look like at age 5 in the eldest! Curls and all :D Well now there's 3. Sweet little, laid back Stephen! He sure is pretty cool with his sisters adoring him and showering the hugs and kisses. How cute is he! I look forward to seeing him grow! We had fun, the girls did their own thing as they do and we just went with the flow. Les, and Karin, thanks so much for allowing me to work with you once again! Your family is awesome!
LOVE this one...singing us some sweet songs... :)
