Baby in a Box

It's been a month since I last posted any photos of Leora and several people have been bugging me for an update. Well, to be honest with you, in our haste to move out of our old apartment we misplaced the box that we packed Leora in!



Little Lost Leo finally turned up this morning, in great condition (whew, thank G-D), and I will hopefully get her in the studio for a modeling session over the next few days.

Seriously though, a few days before we had to be out of our apartment (a few days after she was born), when we should have hastily been packing up I decided that I just had to spend two hours setting up and creating the above image. It is indeed a real image and those are actually boxes that we had either already packed up or were waiting to be filled. Had I gone totally insane I would have prepared and stacked enough boxes to fill the background behind her but instead I chose (wisely, as I think I had already exhausted my wife's patience just after telling her about my "Box of Leo" idea) to just tape some collapsed boxes to the wall. Set up was around 1.5+ hours and Leora was only subject to my flashing lights for about 10 minutes. Many thanks to my lovely ladies for their continuing tolerance of my nonsense!

Below is a detail shot of the final image along with a few behind the scenes photos.











Strobist: Canon 30D/EF-S 17-55 2.8 @ 160 sec / f6.3 @ iso 100. One AB800 with shoot thru umbrella triggered via a Pocketwizard Plus 2 mounted on the camera with a pre-trigger motor cord. That allowed me to hold a PW MiniTT1 in my hand and maneuver Leo, step just out of frame, and fire the camera without having to stand behind the tripod.

For post production notes click on the final image above or click here. See the unedited version here.