The Family Photo - 12/28/2008

Aunt Stuffy asked if I could take a family photo since all 19 of us would be together. Now, I know better then to try and take a family photo. But since she asked nicely, I agreed against my better judgment. We decided that we would wear blue jeans and white shirts, so I picked a blue-ish background. I also knew that I would have about 2 minutes before someone would start crying (This is usually one of the adults, not the kids). To speed up the process I came up with a seating chart the night before and sent it to everyone in an email.


I was fortunate that I had a top notch crew to help me with the setup and lighting.


The crew taking a short break after the backdrop and lights setup

The crew checking to make sure the lighting was correct, no bad shadows or dead spots.

Since we would have tall and short people, the crew made sure no heads would get chopped off or stick up above the backdrop.

A final test shot to make sure we could see the blacks and the whites without any blowouts.

-- Time to call in the cattle --


Test shot one -

oops- the herd is a little bigger then expected, can everyone please take one step to the right.
(Sure you can guess how well that went over)

-- The final Result --