The above shot is from a very quickly organized 1-year portrait session. We had a few good friends over for new year’s eve when we decided to take some portraits of the soon-to-be 1-year old. I set up some speedlights quickly and we used about 10 minutes to shoot some 50 shots. The kiddo was super relaxed and seemed to enjoy being photographed. As always with kids, the window to get the shots done is only a few minutes. This time we were lucky and had almost 10 minutes 🙂

A couple of more of my favorites: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2012-12-31+1+year+portraits/

For tech geeks:

I used a Photoflex LightDome Q3 small softbox with a speedlight as main light. A bare speedlight was bounced of a wall to give some fill. As this setup was constructed very quickly and I didn’t have much time to make corrections, the shadows ended up fairly deep.