It’s Tuesday again, meaning it’s time for another tidbit! This week’s tidbit is the second post in a series about posing large groups. You can read the first post here.
Build from the center
It really is a simple and perhaps obvious concept, to build your groups from the center, but if you don’t do it, you can have some nightmares on your hands. Sooo, pick the person who you want to be your center (or two people, as is the case in weddings…) and simply add individuals around the center. This is important for a few reasons:
1) It allows you to be particular about placing every individual so as to create those loverly triangles we discussed in Part One;
2) It’s easier for your subjects to know where to place themselves when you’re able to give them a starting point (“I need you to stand slightly behind and to the left of Sarah”);
3) It’s easier to ask one person to move over several steps than to instruct an entire group of people to take two steps to the right, believe me;
4) For weddings, it just makes sense. Almost every photo is going to have the newly married couple in it, front and center. Might as well keep them front and center and build around them.
In the Tuesday Tidbit fashion, a quick and simple bit of info. Happy shooting from Vantage!
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