Working With Groups And Families
Just when you’ve mastered posing one person, you’re asked to capture a whole bunch of them. How do you pose multiple people to achieve a visually pleasing composition? How do you avoid the totem pole and police line-up effect of stacking people head on head or side by side? How do you make posing look natural? This section has the answers…
Movie-star posing for teen groups
Three sisters wanted a great shot of their collective pre-teen, teenage and young adult children. The kids were less than enthusiastic – how could ...
Working with people of different heights
How do you balance out height differences in a couple or group? This is my approach to photographing short and tall people together – and why somet...
Fun portrait of a close friendship
It was the last summer before four very good friends said their goodbyes and parted ways. My commission was to capture the joy of their time togeth...
When the puppy has other ideas…
So there I was, lying on the floor one (really) cold December day, capturing portraits of this family walking along with their new puppy. All of a ...
Creating triangles with a family of four
When you’re faced with a group of people, the easy option is to get them to sit or stand close together. Instead spend a little more time to positi...