infants and strobes...safe??

i have an upcoming job shooting an infant...1-2 months old. i would

like to know if anyone has any knowledge if this is safe for the

infant's eyes. normally for a job such as this i would use only one

head with a med softbox or umbrella at a reading of about f13 or so,

but seeing as this involves very young eyes, i want to check on

safety to same. an option would be to bounce off foam core board or

of course just use ambient.

answers on issue of eyes will be appreciated.

thanks

I think the parents should ask their pediatrician before the shoot. I certainly would not use flash with a newborn, but I don't remember the guidance for 1-2 month olds (my youngest is now 11 yrs old).

As far as I know (no i ain't a pediatrician) human eyes start to degrade from the age of 2 (years). I would not flash into 1-2 months old eyes.

When my friends' baby was born everyone and his dog turned up to take photographs. Every time a flash went off the baby twitched violently! No, I would not use strobes.

Is this really unsafe? Does it matter the power of the flash being used. It seems to me that every excited new born father takes tons of pictures commonly with flash. I have a 2 week old daughter and would never want to harm her but find it almost unthinkable that a flash would do serious harm to babies since all parrents take tons of photos of their kids. I would like to hear a better explanation of what people thik are safe and unsafe.

five billion flies eat sh|t so they have to be right...right?

 

sorry:)

 

as you said, those fathers are "excited". Anyway, available light photos are much nicer than flash ones.

I agree natural light is prefered but in cases of indoor pictures where natural light is not an option would you simply not take the picture?

<i>"I agree natural light is prefered but in cases of indoor pictures where natural

light is not an option would you simply not take the picture?"</i>

 

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Available light doesn't necessarily exclude artificial light.

 

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I'm happy with this, where the entire light was supplied by a lamp located just outside the frame. I believe this was shot at f2. Couldn't get both the kid's and mother's eyes in focus at the same time. Oh, well. I still like it. :)

 

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Click on the picture for a larger version:

 

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<a href="http://canid.com/johanna/reading_mom.html"><img alt="Reading with Mom" src="http://canid.com/pics/jbm_mom_read1_small.jpg" border='0'></a>

 

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Eric<br>

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<p> You can check out this link that seems to say that flash will not hurt a baby's eyes. This goes along with what I have heard from Dr.'s in the past while taking pictures of friends babies in the hospital.</p>

<a href="http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/28067/8479/367698.html">InteliHealth: Eyes/Vision</a>