Advice for tomorrow! My first baby!

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Hi everyone - my wife is being induced tomorrow and I'm sure once the baby has popped out and we've cooed over it for several hours :love:, I'll want to take ahem, shall we say, a "few" pictures...! :D

Any special advice/tips for settings/setups? I have a Nikon D90 and 18-55mm kit lens and haven't really done too many portraits with it yet, so am a bit worried about getting it right without annoying everyone whilst I go about it! Especially when it comes to flash settings with the newborn.

Thanks guys and gals! :) :baby:
 
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pg333 said:
Hi everyone - my wife is being induced tomorrow and I'm sure once the baby has popped out and we've cooed over it for several hours :love:, I'll want to take ahem, shall we say, a "few" pictures...! :D

Any special advice/tips for settings/setups? I have a Nikon D90 and 18-55mm kit lens and haven't really done too many portraits with it yet, so am a bit worried about getting it right without annoying everyone whilst I go about it! Especially when it comes to flash settings with the newborn.

Thanks guys and gals! :) :baby:
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Don't worry about the flash settings. Just enjoy it! :thumbs:
 
Dont forget the hankies! if you're anything like me you'll be blubbering like a girl! and you wont see the viewfinder without them.
Three of the most emotional days of my life.
 
My advice is check the settings well before things get going, it all goes out of your head when the baby pops out, you HAVE to have newborn in arms shots straight away ( only two or three though or you may have a camera thrown across the room for you):D
 
Oh wow, how exciting!!!

Just relax and enjoy, and can't wait to see some pics!
 
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Just enjoy the moments, your wife will be exhausted and need a lot of seeing you and your child focussing on the important things in life and she won't necessarily think 732 images of newborn wonderful whilst you are taking them ;)
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I got a dreadful telling off from my Wife for not taking a enough pictures of the two of them in the early hours after our son's birth.

This was I suspect due to the protracted induced labour and the following emergency cesarian leving her a bit away with the faries and looking back later she wanted the pictures to see what had been happening.

Something to bear in mind, but as a bloke you'll be in a no win situation whatever you do.

Good luck with the birth.

David
 
Thank you so much for the guidance - re: the flash settings - I meant from the point of view of not hurting the babies eyes (which are probably going to be closed anyway, but I don't want to upset the little one!) - I only have the standard inbuilt flash - I'm not quite sure about the Auto setting yet if all else fails as it seems to flash when you least expect it!
 
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lol my daughter has a veritable flicker book from years 1-3.... ahem just fire away to start with work out the poses once she is home lol
 
I took a few when my son was born Thread link

Just move the bubba closer to a window if possible and snap away. No need for flash and it looks very natural.

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just relax (OK maybes thats the wrong word) enjoy (!!) the experience and take a couple of snaps. You'll be to knackered to do much else
 
Whack the iso up and forget about using the flash, better still stick the D90 on auto iso and if there is too much noise either use reduction software or convert to B&W!
 
Make sure you know how to put on a nappy, otherwise you'll look like a complete idiot.
Do not take pics of the crowning, or if you do, don't show anyone. I know someone, who did and does :gag:.

It'll be great, now get some sleep as you're going to need it. Good Lucky!
 
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