We must have posted simultaneously because I was thinking exactly the same thing.
dennis2146 wrote:
With due respect and meaning no insults, how on earth can any of us give you settings? Are you asking about ISO, f stop, shutter speed, what. We have no idea if you will be inside or outside, flash/no flash. Is this a paying client, a friend, or are you the husband, sister, mother of the pregnant mom etc.
As for lenses either/both will work depending on what type of photos you will be shooting.
Others have offered some good suggestions but nothing I have seen on specific settings.
Dennis
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lively99 wrote:
It's with my daughter
You could do a search on Flickr for maternity photos and most will show the settings.
tdekany wrote:
You could do a search on Flickr for maternity photos and most will show the settings.
And if you copy the settings chances are they all be wrong for your pictures.
Gene51
Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)
lively99 wrote:
Have a maternity shoot coming up soon and would like to know which lens would be best. Canon 18-55mm or 75-300mm. Photo shoot will be outside. Should I do early morning or at sunset. I'M using a Canon T3.what should my setting be
I suggest that instead of relying on pure guesswork here or on other forums, just grab your camera and a willing subject to the venue of your choosing, and do a test shoot. Other than that, hand this off to a pro. You definitely will not get answers here that will help, other than to help confuse you. Venturing into areas of photography that are outside your comfort zone and doing the trial and error thing is a perfectly reasonable learning modality - I encourage you to at least try.
Congratulations - that should be a special shoot.
lively99 wrote:
It's with my daughter
Thank you so much for your help. I received soo many rude comments with negative that I can'tell believe it.
Thank you soo much again. I will always consult with you from now own
As others have said, use a focal length longer than 50mm. Besides the nice natural golden hour lighting, you might want to try off camera flash (or speedlight on camera if you can't trigger or don't have someone to help you). Take a practice shot of the background and fiddle with shutter speed until the background is exposed as you would like it (not blown out and probably not too dark). Then set your aperture for the widest opening (lowest number) that works. Remember that if you have the father there, too, there will be more depth of field required. I found 5.6 to 7 worked fine. Set speedlight to TTL (or iTTL) and it should look great.
Thanks so much for the great help. I'love be posting a photo of the shootwhen done.
lively99 wrote:
Thanks so much for the great help. I'love be posting a photo of the shootwhen done.
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jkatpc wrote:
As others have said, use a focal length longer than 50mm. Besides the nice natural golden hour lighting, you might want to try off camera flash (or speedlight on camera if you can't trigger or don't have someone to help you). Take a practice shot of the background and fiddle with shutter speed until the background is exposed as you would like it (not blown out and probably not too dark). Then set your aperture for the widest opening (lowest number) that works. Remember that if you have the father there, too, there will be more depth of field required. I found 5.6 to 7 worked fine. Set speedlight to TTL (or iTTL) and it should look great.
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