Posing The Family of Four

[shajufx]

Great info and each photo speaks a lot ! Need to try some tricks very soon. Thanks !

[Gilkar]

Benji:
I am new to Photocamel but have enjoyed reading your tutorials. I occasionally teach a course in posing and lighting both in the studio and outdoors. I find your tutorials clear and precise. I am instructing my students to reference this (and your other threads) for further study. I am unfamiliar as to how PC works. Are these tutorials downloadable so the students (and myself can have a hard copy?
Cordially
Gilkar

[digibob]

Good stuff as always. Can you describe lighting set up and what lighting equipment you used. Great photos!
Thanks

[Benji]

Originally Posted by Gilkar

Benji:
I am new to Photocamel but have enjoyed reading your tutorials. I occasionally teach a course in posing and lighting both in the studio and outdoors. I find your tutorials clear and precise. I am instructing my students to reference this (and your other threads) for further study. I am unfamiliar as to how PC works. Are these tutorials downloadable so the students (and myself can have a hard copy?
Cordially
Gilkar

I'm not a techie. If you can figure out a way to download them go ahead!

Benji

[Benji]

Originally Posted by digibob

Good stuff as always. Can you describe lighting set up and what lighting equipment you used. Great photos!
Thanks

Bob,

Lighting. All lighting in these images was the available light that exists outdoors under the canopy of my outdoor studio, and at nearly any forest. I used nothing else lighting wise.

Benji

[digibob]

Thanks, Bob. It really looks like you used a soft fill light. Good stuff.

[busylady]

Thank you for a wonderful tutorial.

[diegom75]

Awesome tutorial Benji, it really helps. Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us!

[BobNSA]

Thanks for your tutorial it was very straight forward, direct and to the point. I did my first family of four shoot this weekend and this tutorial helped me out significantly.

Thanks for the various posing and lighting tutorials a big help.

C&C Welcome

I was using Nikon D300, SB800 as fill.

[comincio]

Thanks, Benji, for posting this series. It'll be helpful to many of us hobbyists who just shoot our family members, friends, and pets.

[patf@bv]

Great tips I really liked the full family and the Kids shots, I also found the shot of dad alone looked a little, well, awkward looking, glad you cleared that up about it just being examples. I've been looking at some of your tutorials and am happy to say I'm learning some good tips from them. Thanks Benji, keep them comeing

[Benji]

Originally Posted by patf@bv

Great tips I really liked the full family and the Kids shots, I also found the shot of dad alone looked a little, well, awkward looking, glad you cleared that up about it just being examples. I've been looking at some of your tutorials and am happy to say I'm learning some good tips from them. Thanks Benji, keep them comeing

Normally if a pose looks good on a single individual it will also look good in conjunction with one or more other people, however it may need some slight adjustments for the additional subjects. Such was the case here.

The reason I had his back knee up and his front down rather than the other way around is the raised knee will be hidden by his wife's torso whereas had it been in front it would be screaming LOOK AT ME.

Benji

[Benji]

[QUOTE=BobNSA;877159]Thanks for your tutorial it was very straight forward, direct and to the point. I did my first family of four shoot this weekend and this tutorial helped me out significantly.

Thanks for the various posing and lighting tutorials a big help.

C&C Welcome

Bob,

Look at dad's knee in all of these and then compare his knee to the knee of the dad in my shots. Note how his knee juts up in to the image and has become a major part of the image? Had you had him reverse the knees it would have been much better.

Benji

[BobNSA]

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Benji,

I saw the knee after I returned and looked at your pictures. I actually wanted to put a child, leaning against the knee but you know how children are. The other thing that I a getting greater awareness of is hand placement. Little by little it is coming together.

Thanks again.