This is a continuation of "Rainy Day, Baby Bump and in Home Shoots"...
For our actual maternity session, we met up in the studio with a "we're gonna make it happen" attitude...but no actual plan. I used no more than 2 to 3 monolights with soft boxes for each image. Except of course for the ending silhouette we captured. My goal for the shoot was to create a few surreal images with the dress. To do this, I set the camera up on a tripod and used my Cam Ranger app on my phone to release the shutter on a 2-3 second delay and 3-5 images a shot. So the "waving" dress in the images is actually me standing to the side or behind her billowing it myself.
For the low-light/softer images...we simply placed the chair next to the soft box and had the light strength adjusted down slightly. I believe I did use a slight filler light to help bring in a little detail. I loved these images the best because they have more of the "glowing mother" feel to them and I would like to explore the possibilities of mood/lighting with this simple set-up in the future.
Overall each image is different and you can really see we were just playing with ideas and trying to find the "sweet spot" of what we liked best. I truly love working with someone who doesn't have this set idea of what they must have...you just never know what the final product will be!
*Keep an eye out for my upcoming blog on images "Straight out of the camera" compared to the final product...you may just see one or two of these!