Posts Tagged ‘Kids’

One Year Old Birthday Party | Abby | March 13, 2010

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

It’s pretty interesting, I’ve known Abby’s parents for quite sometime now, well, over 2 decades and a couple of years ago, Abby’s parents were one of the first weddings I shot with a digital SLR. Abby was born last year as a healthy baby girl with all the love she can ever get from her loving parents and relatives. November of last year was the first time I had the privilege to photograph a portrait session I took for her. (See post here)

Last week was Abby’s first birthday and what better way to celebrate it with a birthday party with lots of friends and family and a very pretty birthday cake? As always, she lit up in front of my camera. Here are some photos from the day.

Baby Shoes

Birthday girl playing around

Birthday girl playing around

A happy birthday girl

A happy birthday girl

Birthday girl looking at her mom

Birthday girl looking at her mom

Birthday girl having fun

Birthday girl having fun

Birthday Cake

Birthday Cake

Happy 1st Birthday!

Happy 1st Birthday!

Birthday Cake

Birthday Cake

Birthday girl having her cake

Birthday girl having her cake

Baby Portraits for Harratt | Dec 13, 2009

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Before I even start this post, I wish everyone had a great Christmas break and wishing everyone have a Happy New Year!

I’ve known Harratt’s parents half my life and they were probably the third couple I shot a bridal session for and a wedding session for. All those were done with my Nikon FE 9 yeas ago. Fast forward to Harratt, let me being to introduce him as my god son. Harratt was born in Scarborough General Hospital 2 years ago on Victoria’s day and I was the third person in the world to holding him after he was born. As much as I love taking photos, this session is really the only second time I took for him since the first day he was released from the hospital.

Two and a half years since that day, I can conclude that Harratt has grown quite some what, being very energetic, running all over the place all the time. When he is not moving, he is on “his” Apple iPhone 3GS playing games. The crazy thing is, he seems to know what he’s doing and I probably don’t!

This photo session was held in an empty apartment with all the room for him to run around. This was quite a challenging task as he never stood still for any photos. It really reminded of my wedding work when I’m running around to chase down moments, emotion and angles. This was quite an easy setup, one speedlite on a shoot through umbrella on the left and another speedlite bouncing off a silver reflector on the right. Of course, the reflector I had seemed to stir up some funny topic to be better off remained in the silence.

Here’s a few of my favourite images from this session

Photo session with an energetic kid

Natural High

Photo session with an energetic kid

Being Himself

Photo session with an energetic kid

Being Cute

Photo session with an energetic kid

Starting to get even more energetic

Photo session with an energetic kid

Playing with the balloon

Photo session with an energetic kid

Running into the kitchen

Photo session with an energetic kid

Playing with the iPhone

Photo session with an energetic kid

Concentrating playing games

Family Portraits, Danica and Henry | Dec 7, 2009

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

I can’t believe it has already been 10 years since I shot my first engagement and wedding, and it was for Danica and Henry. It was on a Nikon FE, relying on 50mm f/1.4 and a 105mm f/2.0 and around 8 rolls of Kodak 35mm color film and 4 rolls of Kodak 35mm B/W film. A decade later, I was taking family portraits for their family with 2 kids over the past 5 years with my Canon 5D. Yes I have made the switch over as most of you know and a ton of equipment later…

Caron, the 5 year old sister was especially enthusiastic in front of the camera. I am convinced all female babies and girls are especially responsive to my camera and lenses. She was jumping around and just posing for me like what a professional model would do. I didn’t even have to think about how to guide her. The younger brother, Caleb just woke up before we started taking photo so he was not as enthusiastic about it. Nonetheless, the photos turned out really well and from this set, you can tell a strong bond in their family.

Time flies, I still remember the times when I held them when they were little babies. It’s no wonder this time, legitimately they can call me Uncle Chris.

P.S. the white bear that I bought for Caleb when he was born is still very white!

Location: Richmond Hill, ON

Here are a few of my favourite photos from the day:

Here’s a slideshow from the day