Lessons
Class Introduction
09:12 2Favorite Family Group Poses
12:45 3Plan the Photo Shoot
04:08 4Meet Three Person Family for Shoot
04:02 5Shoot: Get Family in Front of Camera
15:23 6Review Images from Shoot
04:37 7Shoot: Get Family Comfortable
14:45 8Family of Three Shoot Recap
10:05Tips & Tricks For Family Group Posing
03:30 10The Art Of Unposing
02:46 11Using Furniture In Family Portraits
07:47 12Demo: Using Furniture
04:24 13Shoot: Family With Furniture
24:28 14Shoot: Combine Family Members on Furniture
08:01 15Shoot: Siblings Laying On Rug
06:21 16Shoot: Close Family Image on Furniture
08:48 17Creative Shooting Spaces
05:59 18Tips For Photographing With Dogs
05:54 19Demo: Studio Lighting
04:07 20Shoot: Introduction to Shooting With Dogs
09:17 21Shoot: Favorite Poses With Dogs
18:41 22Introduction to Generational Photography
06:23 23Large Group Posing Options
06:51 24Demo: Large Group Posing
11:29 25Shoot: Favorite Poses For Multigenerational Families
15:29 26Shoot: Incorporate Ring Light
09:05 27Shoot: Colorful Generational Family Images
13:38 28Shoot To Sell Products
05:52 29Photoshop®️ CC Efficient Workflow
06:09 30Post Processing Before The Sales
10:40 31Sales Templates in Photoshop®️ CC
09:06 32Post Processing After The Sale
06:31 33Concluding Thoughts
09:02Lesson Info
Demo: Studio Lighting
Now to show a couple just quick little diagrams of how I would pose. What's unique about these soft boxes is that I'll use my reflectors over on camera right and that really, a reflector is just a low-powered light. I'm very visual, I'm gonna take the light meter reading, get the right exposure, but I'm seeing where the shadows are falling, what these reflectors can bounce a little light into. That's like my fill light. Then we've got these soft boxes I will flip-flop, and I'll show you in the diagram, depending on the size of the group, the large soft box in front or the small soft box in front. But they're very shallow soft boxes, and they're really designed to create, to act like windows. When I talk about having a style and in my studio, I do have a window light, but that doesn't mean I can always use it, or the weather. You know we're here in Seattle, the weather might now always work for that, that I wanna mimic that soft window light look, I can do it with these soft boxes. That...
's what I'll be shooting with today. The one thing, so if I'm shooting with the larger soft box in front, I tend to keep it set up like this, like you can see in the diagram. If I bring the smaller soft box in front, that might be for a group of three, four, maybe five people, I would use a smaller soft box and I will angle that some. It's just a little more control of the lighting then having it just come in from the side. So I apologize if I am blocking anybody with reflectors, but this is how I would do this in the studio. If you think about it, these, like I said, are more just like low-power lights. And I'll just move these. I kind of, what I say, I was doing this in the other shoot. I kinda call it shooting through a tunnel. When I'm with my camera, and in my studio too, I just would like to mention, I do use a rolling camera stand. I'm totally fine, like I'll hand-hold, but that is something just the same thing like the spider holster, I just like having that place to set my camera and then there's a little bit more stability as well. So it's a large rolling camera stand. But this, I just kinda it's visual, and I'm gonna move this around once I bring our subjects in, and see where I need that light reflecting back. Really, this is just gonna be lighting, what's lighting the background. I'm actually gonna bring this up a little bit. (rough scraping) And the other thing with these soft boxes typically, with the way they're designed and how shallow they are, and I'll do some standing poses with this as well, but typically like you want this potentially could be like at shoulder height. So you just have this really natural fall off from highlight to shadow. If it was lower, that's fine, you're just like blasting the arm with light which doesn't necessarily need it. Then the further, I always call it the safe area, with this soft box, if you were standing over here and looking at me, when I'm standing here, there's all this extra light wrapping around right. So this is gonna be a little bit more of a flat light, and a safer spot to be. Then as I move up the soft box, I wouldn't have my client quite this close, but just for sake of showing you, as I move up the soft box, I'm gonna be getting obviously all kinds of split lighting and shadows. But that's where I can move in, when I say I shoot through a tunnel, I literally can move this in like if I was shooting some individuals or one or two people. That could be in here this close and that's gonna be filling in some of those shadows that I would be having if I didn't have these reflectors up here. Let me do a couple meter readings and then I think we can have the family ready to come in here in a minute. I'm gonna start off, like I said, I think with the dog I'm thinking on the couch, maybe just even all the kids on the couch with the dog, and maybe mom and dad I could see cause the dog's pretty big, (laughing) he's gonna take up about half the couch. I'm thinking mom and dad behind the couch similar to what we did earlier, but maybe the kids more sitting down.
Class Materials
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Ratings and Reviews
DOlores RUsso
All I have to say is - Vicki you are a saint. To handle four kids, dog and their parents too, not to mention a class of students watching...AND YOU'RE TAKING PHOTOS, GOOD ONES!! All I know is, I could not handle that as you have even though I was a teacher for 25 years (K-12, all of them) - and wonderful people like you are far and few between. May you stay healthy and happy and continue interacting with kids and parents - you really have a talent! (I had to turn the sound off on the vid because it was driving me crazy,, with kids, dog, etc etc!)
Marla GIbson
It was true to life and yes, a bit chaotic. But I enjoyed it, it shows the work that often does go into a session with all the multitasking. I got some great ideas for poses, and learned some new way to interact with younger children. Thank you for a honest session and not a perfect planned one.
Lee Boddington
Awesome class, really informative, and loved how you handled all the chaos. Great sales and promotional advice from your hubby too. Fantastic, well rounded :)