New born: Color or B&W?

Another new member in the family!

Color

or B&W ?

What do you think?

Aliza @ 1 month

You know what is the fun part for my this trip back to Malaysia?

2 new members in my family. 1st of course is my sister in law. The other one is this little princess - Aliza. My cousin's daughter. I wander how should I call her, is she my niece? did some search online, it seem like I've to call her first "cousin once removed". Oooo, I'm confused. Let's just call her by name - Aliza. If you know the correct way for the relationship, please comment!!

So enjoy another series of baby portraits, in my favorite B&W style. Hope you like it!!

How adorable is she. She will turn up to be a pretty girl for sure. I can imagine that on my next trip back home. :)

Baby Portraiture

Visited my friend in Wakayama just before I fly back to Malaysia for a short summer vacation. At there I played with her little niece, a 8 months old new born. He is so cute and adorable. As a photog, I can't resist to pick up the camera and click the shutter.

Taking photos of a baby is not and easy task. You need to get his attention. You need to get him to look into your lens. But the difficult part is that you cannot keep the baby still for more than a second. Another difficult part is that I like to shoot with aperture wide open for portraiture, so any slight movement will result in soft focus images. Anyway, I think I've done a pretty good job for this series of photos. Hope you enjoy them!!

I've special love for black & white photos. And the last 2 photos are my favorite!!

可欣 @ 4 months

Let's meet this little princess 可欣!! My seniors - Chee Leong & Wuyi's first born. Congratulation again!! If you still remember, I had covered their wedding in Shanghai in 2008. And the bride's photo of Wuyi has been the banner of my blog ever since.

I had the chance to visit them last week on my short trip to Tokyo for job hunting. Really nice to be able to catch up with them, and to play with this new member in Ooi's family. She is so cute and adorable and I just can't resist to have my camera pointing at her all the time. She must be asking in her little head - "Where the hell is this uncle coming from and keep asking me to look at him??" :p

I found that I love baby's photo in B&W. I tried to minimize post processing, but I just cannot help pushing the greyscale button in Lightroom for almost all the photos, and this blog entry end up all B&W. Anyway, hope you like it and thanks for dropping by :)