Maternity Photography - Melanie - Northern Virginia

To be honest, I've been really excited about showing these, but I wanted to get the complete set of shots from this session done and presented to the mom before showing them to the world. However, I sent my email to Melanie this morning, so I'm pleased to present a couple favorites from her maternity session.

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Nikon D3, Post: Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3

Melanie is an artist, and an absolute trooper, and stuck right with me - hiking through mud, plodding through ice-water, and swatting mosquitoes without a single complaint all in search of the vision I had in mind. For the photographers in the crowd, there are two SB-900s on a light stand in the middle of the creek, just to the left of the subject, and my D3 with 24-70mm on a tripod in the middle of the creek. The water was swift moving and cold and it was pretty intense leaving all that gear in the middle of the river while posing Mel... but I'm pleased with the result.

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Nikon D3, Post: Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3