We welcome another Ramsden to the world.

Last month was one of the most special events in my life, The birth of my second child. 

Its an emotional roller coaster, and to watch my Mrs go through the most amount of pain a human can endure is tough.

Mother nature at its best and amazing and touching experience.  

As you know i do not post images of my children on here or social medial, 

but i thought id share these couple of images. 

Fuji film X-T1 f2.8 1/30th ISO 800

The pain is now becoming unbearable. 

Fuji film X-T1 f2.8 1/30th ISO 800

There was sick... Lots of sick.

Fuji film X-T1 f2.8 1/30th ISO 800

0415hrs we welcome our gorgeous child to the world. 

Behind the scenes, pregnancy lighting.

Morning,

I hope that you have enjoyed this week of pregnancy images that i have posted.

Today i thought id share some behind the scenes images and some thoughts with the lighting used.

Fuji XT1 f5.6 1/30 ISO 800

As you can see from the above image, these were taken in my cramped dinning room. Even without a large space, using a little imagination and being creative with your space, you can create some nice images.

Nikon D800 f5.6 1/200 ISO 100

The important part i find is to light your subject how your like. Once lit well, then you can play with the background and try different things.

The above images are straight out of the camera. RAW files converted to JPGS.

Image on the left - the background was lit with a strobe covered with a red gell. Personally i didn't like this too much and so didn't process this.

The middle image - is obvious. I turned off the background light and so it rendered to black.

Image on the right - i turned the background light around and it shone on to the subject, bouncing back to illuminate the background.

The black background and the grey one, were processed to make the image have a little more interest. If you would like me to show in a future post how i did that, then please let me know.

Nikon D800 f1.6 1/80 ISO 100 

The above images were not shown in the week, but thought id share them for a little fun.

They were lit, with a simple over head projector. The sort that were used in schools.

I printed on clear plastic an image of blossom i found on a stock image site.

No fancy photoshop here, just an image using a projector.

Here is the lighting set up used for the bellow image. The bellow image is unprocessed. A converted RAW file again to JPG.

To create the lines on the background i used a venetian blind that i purchased from B@Q a while ago.

(It was defective and on sale for a fiver, result!)

The lights.

A - Nikon sb900 flashed through the blind to create the background. It was flagged to prevent spill onto the subject.

B- Nikon sb900 through a honey comb grid. To illuminate the bump.

C - Elinchrom Quadra through a snoot to add a touch of light on the face.

D - Elinchrom Ranger through another grid, to add some light on to the hair.

Nikon D800 f5.6 1/200 ISO 100

This was a fairly extensive lighting set up. It took a bit of time to set up, one light at a time.

When setting up lights like this, the subject has very little room to move. And so the set up takes patients from both parties. If your subject moves it can throw everything out.

Once the lights are set, relax. Make your subject relax and enjoy what you create!

I hope that you have enjoyed this week, viewing some work quite different from my norm.

Many thanks.

Lee.

Pregnancy image.

Nikon D800 F5.6 1/200 ISO 100

Morning, here is the final pregnancy image i will post this week.

Tomorrow morning i will post a behind the scenes on some of the lighting used used on these images this week.

I hope that you have enjoyed them.

Thanks

Pregnancy image using Venetian blinds.

Nikon D800 F5.6 1/200 ISO 100

Morning. Here is another image for my week of pregnancy images.

Friday ill show a BTS of the lighting set up. And how you can create a striking image with an old venetian blind.

Thanks.

Pregnancy image.

Nikon D800 F5.6 1/200 ISO 100

Morning, image #2 for the week.

Friday ill be posting a lighting BTS.

Thanks

Pregnancy week.

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Nikon D800 F5.6 1/200 ISO 100

Morning, thought id share each day this week an image that i have recently taken of my better half.

Thought id kick off with this one, lit with a key, back and hair light. Nothing on the back ground rendering it to absolute black.

Ill post at the end of the week a behind the scenes with the lighting rig.

Thanks

Pregnancy Image.

Here is my Favourite image that i have taken of the pregnant misses, a few weeks ago, 4 days before the birth of our gorgeous little girl.

In a future post ill explain a little into the post process that went into this image, can you believe that it is made up of 55 images.

Hope that you have had a great weekend.

Lee

Maternity.

Here are a couple of images of a trip to Dungeness in Kent.

Left the house, 30 degrees nice and sunny.

Hit Dungeness 2 hrs later and was 10 degrees and foggy. Still yet to come here to shoot while the weather is nice.

Pregnancy images.

Here are some images from a recent shoot with the mrs,

We found a local field with some colourful crop and thought would have a play.

You can't do a shoot with the mrs without getting dragged into a shot.

Pregnancy.

Hello... 

I hope that you are well and have had  a great weekend.

The Mrs and i are extremely happy to announce that there will be a little person with us soon.

For this shoot i booked us into the suite at the Hilton hotel in Leeds, I used a continuous Lupolux light and natural window light diffused through the net curtains. 

Pregnancy - Amanda and Rikki.

Here are some images from a recent shoot of my Cousin Rikki and his Girl friend Amanda, who are now the proud parents to a wonderful little son called Harvey.

Lee and Monika Pregnancy Shoot.

Here are a few images from a recent Pregnancy shoot that i did for some good friends of mine. 

We are all excited for the arrival of Junior,

Pregnancy Photos.

Here are a few images taken from a recent pregnancy shoot.

These were the first pregnancy images that i have done,

it was mid day and so for an outdoor set it was hard light, but the venue at  Ashridge college was stunning.

I hope you enjoy.

The final image was lit, with 2 SB900's. 

One to camera right nearly in front of the couple, and the second positioned behind the couple through a white brolly.

Lee