I want to capture a pregnancy

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I want to capture the wifes pregnancy. Nine pictures 1 per month and just of her belly.

I can seem to find any examples to work from. any advice on how it is best done.

Any advice would be great
 
That is just what I am doing, I'm at work right now so caqn't upload any pictures.

I am trying to get the same photo, pretty much, every few weeks.

I went for a side shot, mum looking down at tummy on right of frame looking left. Softbox opposite.

Have you got any lighting to work with or are you going to be using natural light?
 
Unfortunatly no light gear other than two tower lamps (home furnishings lol) with 4000k bulbs in. Which i use some times but other than that nothing so natural light and a reflector.

Laid down or stood up?

Black background sounds good, colour or bw?
 
Just to point out that you won't get 9 piccies unless you start snapping pre-conception on the off chance and that you won't see very much of a change in the first few months anyway. Its a lovely idea though and a real memory to treasure. My wife just threw strops if I pointed a camera at her whilst she was pregnant!
 
Menthel, the wife already throughs the strops when the camera comes out, if looks could kill i wouldn't be typing lol.

B&W hmm like it.
 
davidh6781 said:
Unfortunatly no light gear other than two tower lamps (home furnishings lol) with 4000k bulbs in. Which i use some times but other than that nothing so natural light and a reflector.

Laid down or stood up?

Black background sounds good, colour or bw?
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Black b/g is nice, I forgot to mention I stuck a reflector behind my wife too. Ap plain background is nice. With no seperate lighting a white one would go grey and that also looks good.

Can you set up a background square to a big window?


I have done two so far, 12 weeks and 15 weeks and there was very little difference, although she has popped out a bit in the last week or so!

How many weeks is she?
 
davidh6781 said:
Menthel, the wife already throughs the strops when the camera comes out, if looks could kill i wouldn't be typing lol.

B&W hmm like it.
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Mine does the same. I think I have about 3 photos where either she isn't sticking her tongue out or has a face like thunder! Good luck!
 
I once saw a beautiful video made of images, the lady was stood in the same place stood against a wall and every 4 days the husband took a photograph. Each image was shown for about 1/4 - 1/2 a second and it was really lovely to watch. The final image was mum, dad and baby.
 
I had what I thought was a nice idea in the delivery suite. Camera in fixed position, set to go off every 15mins or so (in our case every hour would have been fine - long labours!) and recording the scene.

Of course, it got to the point where taking a picture just didn't seem right!
 
Here is the photo I was talking about...

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I started another thread for comments so as not to take over this one
 
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