Photos of Pregnancy

[Emil Schildt]

a few more before bedtime...

[sly]

Thanks for posting those Gandolfi - it's work like yours I have in mind when I think of a master photographer.

I've been taking photos of pregnant women for years, but only recently have I tried to move up to LF from MF and 35mm. It's so much easier to take photos of stationary objects with LF. I'm finding it a big challenge to get wonderful non-cliche LF shots. The need to have the camera on a tripod tends to make me think too statically. I'm hoping that seeing the work of others will help me pre-visualize and think out-side the box a bit better.

[Emil Schildt]

Thanks for posting those Gandolfi - it's work like yours I have in mind when I think of a master photographer.

I've been taking photos of pregnant women for years, but only recently have I tried to move up to LF from MF and 35mm. It's so much easier to take photos of stationary objects with LF. I'm finding it a big challenge to get wonderful non-cliche LF shots. The need to have the camera on a tripod tends to make me think too statically. I'm hoping that seeing the work of others will help me pre-visualize and think out-side the box a bit better.

thanks - check out my "evil" twin (yes, I have one..).

He is not making it in LF, but mostly in MF, but still there should be something to see...

He uses humour as his favourite "weapon", and I like that a lot...

his website: http://web.me.com/andersschildt/phot...y/welcome.html

pregnancy: http://web.me.com/andersschildt/ku_d...nsitionIndex=2

[eddie]

oh baby!

[Steve M Hostetter]

then the challenge would be for us photographers, to try and make images beyond that clichee? Like all other "well documented" topics....

I do understand you, but I don't understand, why so many photographers doesn't seem to see other things than "the usual", when making a clichee topic.

(pregnancy/nudes(!!)/birds/roses(!!!!!) and so on).

I have made a LOT of pregnancy images - I like the challenge, and the beauty of the mother(s) to be...

some examples:

These are great! That second one is the best! That Beelzebub gets all the action

[sly]

Here is my oldest 4x5 pregnancy shot. It is a self portrait done during my 1st pregnancy. (I'm a grandmother now). Unfortunately the negative has gone missing over the years - though the boring, bad ones have survived.

I had to sell my cameras and darkroom when the kids were little and finances were tight. It's only in recent years I've returned to LF. A great place to be.

[Emil Schildt]

Here is my oldest 4x5 pregnancy shot. It is a self portrait done during my 1st pregnancy. (I'm a grandmother now). Unfortunately the negative has gone missing over the years - though the boring, bad ones have survived.

I had to sell my cameras and darkroom when the kids were little and finances were tight. It's only in recent years I've returned to LF. A great place to be.

nice unpretentious image.
You look comptable in the situation.

Good the image is stil here..

[Ramiro Elena]

You've already seen these in the portraits thread but since there's an specific one for pregnancy photos, I'll post again (sorry.)

These were taken for ourselves. I tried to escape the conventional look of pregnancy photos. I must say it is quite difficult!





Next, I'll try something less staged with a Speed Graphic.

[sly]

Ramiroelena, I particularly like the second one. I've got a pregnancy shoot planned for this weekend. It's really tough to get away from the usual, but I'll try.

[ImSoNegative]

thanks everyone for these posts they are all beautiful, I wish i had something to share in LF, maybe soon i will have, thanks again i have really enjoyed looking at the images.