Babies

**Tom J McDonald** · 11-Dec-2011, 01:10

Cambo SCX and 210 Schneider Xenar. Contact print.

**darr** · 11-Dec-2011, 05:32

Incredible!!

**stradibarrius** · 11-Dec-2011, 06:52

Wonderful shot and the beautiful smile will be a family treasure!

**Nathan Potter** · 11-Dec-2011, 09:31

Ahhh. Who is not captivated by a smiling baby. Somehow there is a whole capsule of the life ahead in that smile. What do they know? And what have they to learn?

Very nice.

Nate Potter, Austin TX.

jp · 11-Dec-2011, 11:53

Those play centers are a great way to keep babies in one place while you compose, focus, etc...

**Tom J McDonald** · 11-Dec-2011, 13:34

Thanks y'all.
She's gotta be the most documented baby in history I reckon

**Tom J McDonald** · 11-Dec-2011, 13:45

Originally Posted by jp498

Those play centers are a great way to keep babies in one place while you compose, focus, etc...

Yes, it makes it a lot easier than if they are scootin' around on the floor.

**Ramiro Elena** · 11-Dec-2011, 16:38

I might have posted this before... to add to the difficulty of photographing babies, I shot this with an Aero Ektar (okay, it was ƒ5.6)

Monte Toro por rabato, en Flickr

This is ƒ2.5 with lots of luck:

Sandra y Darío por rabato, en Flickr

**Tom J McDonald** · 11-Dec-2011, 16:45

Very excellent Ramiro.

**Vaughn** · 11-Dec-2011, 20:19

Very good! I did not use LF for baby shots until my "babies" were 4 yrs old or so. Before that I did a lot of manipulated SX-70's of the boys...especially before they learned to crawl. Lots of fun. Once they started to crawl it was like sweeping ants...you can get them in a pile but they don't stay in a pile.

Here is one of the older 8x10's of my boys. They were about 5 yrs old. It is a re-take of one taken with my 8x10 in the same spot a year or two earlier. This place is just up at the end of the street where my boys did pre-school on the university campus where I work.

Probably a 30 second exposure.

8x10 Platinum/palladium Print