Studio Baby Portrait Session Sneak Peek

This year has been off to a busy start! It’s been a pleasure to work with a wide variety of people as the world begins to resume some sense of normalcy.

I had an extra special session recently, a portrait session with a little one who has already had to undergo several medical procedures to fix a rare and complicated heart condition. He was all smiles all session, and we created some of my best work to date.

Tim Schumm Photography is a Carmel, Indiana-based certified professional photographer experienced in portrait, event, commercial, and family photography. I am a Certified Professional Photographer, an active member of the Indianapolis Professional Photographer's Guild, am a current Professional Photographers of America member, and am a proud platinum member of Nikon Professional Services. Tim provides photography services for the Zionsville, Westfield, Fishers, Noblesville, and Indianapolis areas.

Sickafoose Sneak Peek

I had the pleasure of photographing the Sickafoose this afternoon at Cool Creek Park in Carmel. I've known Emma for several years now, going back to when I first moved to the area in junior high school so it was particularly special for me to be able to photograph their two boys. They were both great for the camera and I'm excited to work through the rest of the photos! Click on the images to view them full size.

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! 

 

Announcing...

I had the pleasure of joining both sides of our family to celebrate the announcement of the newest expected member of our family. My wife and I are happy to announce another girl will be joining us to make us a family of four! G walked in with pink balloons to make the grand announcement to the family, and she certainly had fun participating!

Click through for more pictures!

Read More