Interested in updating your corporate or personal head shot? These were taken a few months back for one of Indianapolis's local Orangetheory Fitness centers. Having the right image for your brand's marketing can make all the difference!
Snow Day
Just when you think spring is here we get a little bit more of winter here in Indiana. Days like these are wonderful days to hunker down and spend time with the family. It’s also a great time to pull out the camera and get a few shots of the girls enjoying the winter landscape. Enjoy!
Reminder - sessions are starting to book up! Contact Tim today to talk about your next session.
Introducing the Newest Team Member
My wife and I are thrilled to welcome our second daughter into the world. Both mommy and baby are doing great. IU Health in Carmel, Indiana has been tremendous in delivering both of our daughters. While we have some downtime here in the hospital I wanted to show off a couple of photos from the big day and talk through how I took them!
Lens Choice
For photographing the birth I wanted something that would work well indoors with no flash and I wanted the creamy 'bokeh' effect to blur any distracting backgrounds. To get that blurred bokeh effect you need a lens with a low f stop number. This reduces your depth of field, the ISO required in low light conditions, and increases the blurry bokeh effect. I rented a Nikkor 85mm f1.4 for the occasion and have been extremely pleased with it's performance. The only issue I've had with the lens was the minimum focus distance being 3', and the distance required to frame a person requiring to usually be about 4-5' away from the subject. In hindsight I might have been better with the 58mm f1.4 lens, but that would have reduced lens compression. All in all you can't always get exactly what you want out of a lens, but the pictures have turned out phenomenal and I couldn't be happier.
I wanted to get a few pictures up while we were in the hospital, and there's still plenty more to come!
Happy Holidays - December Update
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! This holiday season has already been a whirlwind for my family and I hope you're finding time to relax and spend it with yours. This December has given me the time to focus on planning for next year and am excited to see where business will head. Sessions are starting to fill in and I'm eager for the weather to turn nice again! After four months of formally launching Tim Schumm Photography I have been able to jump into several opportunities and have been able to push my own photographic abilities to a place I certainly didn't expect I would be a year ago. It's been a pleasure meeting a lot of new faces along the way and am grateful for everything I've learned over the last few months.
With the weather turning cold outside the photography has slowed down a bit but I've still had several opportunities to find some fascinating scenery. My family recently visited the Indianapolis Zoo to see their Christmas light display and wasn't disappointed. The zoo surrounds their visitors with thousands of lights of every color which presents some amazing opportunities for photography!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Tim Schumm Photography!
