Oh, and then it happened. My daugh­ter was born just a tad early…

While I have very little time for hardly any­thing, I don’t want to let this blog rot away, so I’d like to share some of the exper­i­ences I made with this cap­tiv­at­ing little human :-)

First of all: It’s always a good idea to have your cam­era bag packed and ready to go (with a good choice of lenses, charged bat­ter­ies, and empty memory cards). Because when things get rushy, you don’t want to start put­ting your gear together…

Second (which I for­got): In that pack, if you have one, also pack the macro lens. Oth­er­wise, you’ll find that with your “ordin­ary” lenses you just can’t get close enough to the tiny little thing, and it’ll look lost in the frame.

Third: Don’t be afraid of high ISO. Espe­cially in the new born sta­tions they have very dim lights, not to blind the little ones. And since you don’t want to make a fool of your­self drag­ging in a tri­pod — increase the ISO so that you can at least get some kind of shot (flash is, at least for me, com­pletely out of the ques­tion here). They price to pay will be noise, but you can always trans­form the pic­tures to black & white, and that way the noise may even add to the pic­ture.

If you want to find out a bit more about Sophie, or just want to seen some more cute baby pho­tos, have a look over at sophie​.knorn​.org.