Greetings to all my friends in this beautiful community, today I am back with a new studio photo session that I did for a girl who hired my services because she wanted to take some photos for her 18th birthday, a very special stage as she enters adulthood.

Lately when I do birthday photo sessions I like to start by taking a couple of photos of the people without the birthday accessories because that way they can have some photos that might be useful for them in a more casual way.

And besides that, it is always good to start with poses where the person is sitting or leaning on something and I do that to prevent the person from feeling intimidated in front of the camera and freezing without knowing what to do, these poses help to pose with the whole body and thus feel more in context.

Then I removed the cube and we took the photo on the floor, which always looks very nice:

At this point we started to include the birthday accessories, first the balloons with the number 18:

And then we took a couple of photos with the cake:

I placed the tall cube on the set to be able to explore different poses next to the cake:

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The girl was accompanied throughout the photo session by her parents and her younger brother, so I suggested that we could take a photo with everyone together and the result was adorable:

I took all the photos with my Canon R8 camera, a 50mm lens at 2.8/f and two light points.

At the end of the photo session we were all super happy with the results and I hope you like them as much as we do!