[craigsexton]

Thanks guys.

I shot this grouping of girls last week. I ended up setting it up "cross lit" with a fill/seperater behind them along with a hair light. The results are looking good as I'm just now getting to post processing work.

I would have loved to set it up as a typical studio portrait lighting setup (main off to one side, fill behind camera, kicker light and hair light). But with 49 girls doing up to 6 different costumes each, and then broken out into 9 different smaller groups with all individual and group shots its nearly impossible to use a standard setup and make sure you've always got everyone lit. Of course there's still a small danger that some may not be lit evenly due to light drop off but that's where PS comes in. Also, the kicker and hair light in a strip box overhead greatly softened the "double shadow". After this year, and its my second doing this but this year its doubled in number of girls, I couldn't even begin to imagine having to adjust the lights per shot. I shot for 7.5 hours and in between groups had maybe 15 minutes. But inbetween girls I had 15 seconds.

Anyways, I'll post some of the shots later this week after I get thru the post processing and ordering.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Craig