Very sweet :)
How do you and Finley cope being outnumbered by all the girls?

It's a struggle ;-)

HAHA I thought she was kissing a space hopper :)

Bit too blown out for my liking but hey!

Very cute picture. Maybe the best of your baby series nevertheless there is no baby visible on it :)

Aw Jeez, Dave, baby photos AGAIN? etc etc ;)

Your kids must certainly be getting very well versed in The Facts Of Life. I like how a lot of your shots have that 'professional white background' but are probably just shot in the bathroom or something. :)

I've noticed that too! I bet all his rooms are like giant lightboxes or something.
& going through my blogroll this evening I just keep coming across great image after great image - how staged is this though? I can't imagine you making her stay there while you take shot after shot playing with the aperture...oh no wait, that's just me..

do I sense more baby pictures? :P

Since the tutorials have been so long in coming, how about (for old time's sake) giving us a general sense of the post-processing here. My guess is channel mixer to pull out the red channel and make it monochrome, duplicate background layer, gaussian blur it and set mode to overlay, and a final curves layer to tone it?

I'd also be very interested to know how you set it up, whether there is actually a white background or if you pulled everything out during post-process.

Dave this is a wonderful shot. Nothing more needs to be said.

Great shot Dave,
although at first not quite obvious she is kissing a pregnant belly...could be a balloon, if you know what I mean...Maybe its the lighting...
There are no veins, or bellybutton...
Lovely concept though!

Beautiful shot - def a space hopper though - or maybe twins - sorry Libby only kidding ;-)

great moment to capture. what a brilliant brilliant shot clarity is top notch and the lighting. nice dave :)

Fab shot. I didn't recognise either of them :-)
Rho looks so grown up and somehow looks a bit like Emerald. Is that really Libby? She's the size of a space hopper ;-)

What's a space hopper?
I know tyres, wheelie bins, petrol and lifts, but what's a space hopper when it's over here?

I'll be looking for tutorials- this black and white is so wonderful!

Did you shoot against a plain white background or have you achieved this result with careful dodge/burn or similar alterations? And why manual shooting instead of Av or P? It looks like you've used bounce flash from the ceiling, yet you claim no flash (?) Hope you'll be covering this sort of thing in your tutorials!

Thanks all.

YETi: I'm going to give Libby your IP address. Watch your back ;-)

owen-b and Rich: we live in an igloo ;-)

Edward: you're pretty much spot on though getting the background pure white was a bit difficult (it was shot against a beige curtain).

Si: my apologies, I did use flash but entered the EXIF data incorrectly.

I can't believe that this is Rhowan! She's such a little lady now! Thanks for letting us know your children's names and also letting us get a glimpse of their lives.

Ah, this is a precious hello. Priceless!

Very nice

Very strong mood and composition!

I came here thinking there might be a beach photo posted. Lol ! But this is such a charming portrait and a sweet concept. Very beautiful moment. I think it must be greatly more meaningful than any scenery shot and an image to keep for all time. I can understand why you would wish to post this one.

Simply beautiful, great composition!

this is really lovely. mal

I think it needs something recognisable on the pregnant belly (like the belly button) to identify what she's kissing.

Such a beautiful thing. I love this photo. Simple and meaningful.

Beautiful shot.

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