Is this a good group photo idea?

10 years 11 months ago #284906 by Luca
I've been asked to shoot my neighbors family get together coming up in 2 weeks. There will be 11-17 people there. They asked for me to come up with different group posing ideas. This is technically my first client. They are paying me $500 plus $100 additional to use on props. I was thinking about about lining people up from shortest to tallest and having them all hold different picture frames in front of their face. What do you think?

Really, if this is a dumb idea I'm really open to ideas. Any help would be appreciated.

Luca


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10 years 11 months ago #284918 by Vahrenkamp
That sounds like a good idea, you could also try getting a high elevation looking down pose of everyone. Are these all adults?


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10 years 11 months ago #284919 by Leilanee

Luca wrote: I've been asked to shoot my neighbors family get together coming up in 2 weeks. There will be 11-17 people there. They asked for me to come up with different group posing ideas. This is technically my first client. They are paying me $500 plus $100 additional to use on props. I was thinking about about lining people up from shortest to tallest and having them all hold different picture frames in front of their face. What do you think?

Really, if this is a dumb idea I'm really open to ideas. Any help would be appreciated.

Luca


I like that idea... would be cute to have smaller photo frames for kids too hehe.


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10 years 11 months ago #284930 by garyrhook
The frames are a good idea, but lining up shortest to tallest is perhaps not. Don't let it be the only way you use the frames.

In general, faces in a line are considered poor form. You want to arrange folks in interesting ways. Form arcs or triangles (e.g.) with the faces. That way, you can create a tableau and get a shot both with and without the frames.

$0.02


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10 years 11 months ago #285014 by Luca
Gary - now if I organize people in a triangle, where would you set your focus point to insure maximum sharpness on all their faces?

Appreciate your $0.02 and everyone else's here!


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10 years 11 months ago #285015 by garyrhook
You pose them to get their faces as equidistant from the camera as possible (by having the lean forward or sit back, etc). Then ensure mom is in focus. Or whomever mom wants to focus on. If your DoF is enough you should be able to ensure everyone is in reasonable focus. Of course, this takes practice. You might try (if you can get away with it) to get multiple shots with differing apertures (aperture priority mode may help you here).

As I've been told: beauty is in the eye of the checkbook holder. ;)


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10 years 11 months ago #285019 by Luca

garyrhook wrote: You pose them to get their faces as equidistant from the camera as possible (by having the lean forward or sit back, etc). Then ensure mom is in focus. Or whomever mom wants to focus on. If your DoF is enough you should be able to ensure everyone is in reasonable focus. Of course, this takes practice. You might try (if you can get away with it) to get multiple shots with differing apertures (aperture priority mode may help you here).

As I've been told: beauty is in the eye of the checkbook holder. ;)


Thanks again Gary. I'm going to keep all this in mind and see about implementing. "As I've been told: beauty is in the eye of the checkbook holder." :rofl: that was a good one :thumbsup:


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