Today we had a fun shoot with Craig Sowby, owner of My Online Drummer and his new baby boy of 7 days. He brought his drum set down for some unique shots of the newest addition to the family along with big sister Suede. Working with newborns is always a challenge and can be a bit intimidating, but the beautiful end product and the memories it captures is worth the extra care taken during the session.
While Ellis was getting the opiate of mothers milk, we put suede in the large bass drum for a few shots. She has the cutest squeaky mouse voice and would repeat anything we asked her to. Getting genuine smiles from her was not an issue. The lighting was just right to get the sparkle in her eyes.
Enter stage right, (whether he liked it or not) is Ellis. He’s the cutest baby that always seems to be staring off into space pondering the meaning of life. We had a full drum set to work with so we picked out a tom just his size. Looks cozy. Suede kept checking in on her little brother. The pacifier and cloth diapers were a nice touch.
We let Suede out to stretch her legs and ended up with her on top of little Ellis. There were a few shots I liked in this pose, and I decided to try two tone coloring…interesting effect. The drum was lit by placing a strobe just on the other side of the white drum head giving the baby a nice glow.
Not forgetting the reason for the shoot, we let Ellis have the glory of the spotlight for a few clicks as well. I experimented with green because green is nice and it matched is plug.
If you’d like to see a selection of the shots in full screen, click here.
3 Comments
What a great set! Really, really creative and cool.
Great job with the bass drum pictures. They are awesome!! Do you have a facebook fan page?
No fb page
I’ve been done scaling back time devoted to shooting lately. You have a site?