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07/03/2009 05:08:42 PM · #1 |
Hi All!
I'm doing a family portrait of 18 people in about 30 minutes. Is there anything interesting I can do with this? Or with 18, am I stuck with sticking them in rows?
thanks! It's for friends of ours, and I'd really like it to turn out well. |
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07/03/2009 05:13:48 PM · #2 |
serious face and silly face? ;)
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07/03/2009 05:14:48 PM · #3 |
I may be too late eh...
The only trick I can pass on is to get them all to close their eyes, you then tell them you are going to count and you want them to open their eyes on 3.
You take the pic on 4.
This is one way to make sure they all have their eyes open for the shot |
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07/03/2009 05:14:59 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by Blue Moon:
serious face and silly face? ;) |
always do that for the kids at the end -- I was worried more about set up. 3 lines of 6 or 4 lines of 5 or so seemed to normal & boring. |
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07/03/2009 05:16:15 PM · #5 |
I feel your pain! I had 39 family members and only a short distance between me and the family. The camera was on a tripod which was butted up against a wall, I could not go back any further. I could have moved the family back, but then I would lose the steps I had them on....
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07/03/2009 05:20:37 PM · #6 |
put skinny people on the ends and the bigger ones in the middle, especially if you're using a wide angle lens
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07/03/2009 05:21:30 PM · #7 |
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07/03/2009 05:27:33 PM · #8 |
| Don't know our physical setup, but perhaps shoot from an upper floor, arranging in arcs, rather than straight rows. |
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07/03/2009 11:37:33 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by RebelBlue:
Don't know our physical setup, but perhaps shoot from an upper floor, arranging in arcs, rather than straight rows. |
this is how we did our family christmas pic this year -- 17 of us. we set the tripod up on the second floor and took the shot of everyone on the first floor looking up. |
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