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Family Groups
Wedding photography is very specialized
How do photographers manage large family groups? Is the best policy to "arrange them" according to size etc. or is it best not to mix in and leave it up to the group to arrange themselves according to their own family politics, hierarchy. What's best, any ideas? Best wishes |
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Family Groups
At weddings I always put them in couples. And as with any group
photography, each individual should be posed so that they would look good alone. Arrange heads in triangle...yada, yada, yada |
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Triangles?
How do you do that? Do you mean heads together? Thanks for your time J "Randall Ainsworth" wrote in message ... At weddings I always put them in couples. And as with any group photography, each individual should be posed so that they would look good alone. Arrange heads in triangle...yada, yada, yada |
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Triangles?
How do you do that? Do you mean heads together? Well, the heads (faces) are the focal point - so you group people so that the faces (if you could connect the dots) are arranged in some kind of triangles. Any good portrait photographer does this either consciously or unconsciously. |
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Family Groups
How do photographers manage large family groups? Is the best policy to "arrange them" according to size etc. or is it best not to mix in and leave it up to the group to arrange themselves according to their own family politics, hierarchy. There are two different approaches, portraits on location and 'wedding photos' at the altar, aka formals. Usually Large FAmily groups are part of the formals, all those full lengths taken typically on the altar of the church. I keep things very simple with the posing, especially the larger groups. I sell ala carte, this means two things, the couple orders the images they want and the more I get shot the more I will probably sell. I notice that the typical couple will buy almost any group of family. Since there is limited time, I mean even if I had a couple hours the couple can usually only handle about 30 minutes or so. So. I nail the bride down, and while there are a few I would have meant that literally, I may settle to taking one of those carpenter stable shooters and gunning the dress and train down into place. OK, seriously, I pose the bride and fluff the dress and then move people in and out and around her. If there is a shot without her, like the groom and guys I'll pose that just over there. I build groups, Bride/groom with her parents, add her sibs, add grands, add large group which is everybody hanging around willing to admit their connection to the family tree even if by marriage. Then I'll dismiss the group, BUT wait, granddad and ma, stay there a second. ok, then the groom's side. I don't worry too much about finessing and massaging the groups, I'll tell all the folks this side to turn a bit towards the bride, scoot in a bit there, hey you, don't hide behind that big guy, and quite often have them in a single line. that is often necessary cause I used to shoot with a slow shutter speed and near wide open so I can capture as much ambient light as possible, so I was often at f/4 on my 2.8 lens, using a slight long lens (110mm on my 645 med format system) and I'd lock it down too, unless I moved back for the large group I was pretty much focus once and just wrangle the crowd. If I just had a couple or four some I didn't move up and refocus, hey I had a big neg, I cropped instead of moved. If they wanted portraits, I was more than happy to do so, prewedding, at a photosession at a specific location, IE: in San Fran the wedding spot was the palace of fine arts or a couple places in Golden Gate park. or at the reception, I'd find a spot with a background and decent light, or find a good light and set up a background there. as another poster suggested, triangles. you know those pointed topped brick buildings in egypt. that means stagger the people, no two of the same height next to each other, tallest in the middle. groom bride bro sis litbro baby kid If you have space and an extended family, say grands, their adult kids and their families, center the grands, one family on this side, the other family on that side and loose adults and kids with the grands, one big triangle made of three triangles, simple huh...but after awhile it starts flowing naturally. this reply is echoed to the z-prophoto mailing list at yahoogroups.com |
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