Babies and Kids: Background Color

My mission was to take the photos of the baby. I was neither thinking much on how to position the baby, nor the kind of background that best bring out the baby.

I was tired of squating down to shoot the baby. Since the light from the windows was shinning at the sofa (gave me fast enough shutter speed), and I would be able to sit down on the floor to shoot the baby, I get the baby up to the sofa. The baby can roll around the sofa comfortably without worrying knocking his head on the floor. Of course, I am guarding the edge of the sofa to prevent the baby from falling down straight to the floor.

After shooting and checking on the photos, I noticed that the sofa background color was pretty good in bringing out the color of the baby's skin. He was fair, and the background was dark. The contrast made the baby outstanding. Hmm... the baby looked good with dark brown background.

I was shooting at f1.8 at 50mm. It helped to create the depth of field isolating the baby, emphasizing the baby while de-emphasizing the foreground (seat cushion in front of the baby) and background (back cushion behind the baby).