Recent content by Organnyx

I really am not going to play your silly games - you seem intent in trying to bully and hector me for some reason - I suggest you get a life!

"Particular reason you won't give an example then?" - well yes, several - first of all, I'm stuffed if I'm crawling about in the archives looking through negatives and scanning them all for the benefit of some forum warrior who's obviously never actually tried what I'm suggesting (and found out...

Stuck in the groove are we? It is a technique that I used many times, over many years, with complete success - I didn't have queues of irate clients grizzling about the results - I would suggest that YOU try it for yourself, because you are obviously not going to believe me on principle......:D

You've tried? I have, and I know it works..... Lets be pedantically accurate - yes you could go Kris' route with a couple of sodding great studio flash, up high, well back, - you could perhaps bang a large light (or lights) off a white ceiling, you could take them outside and take the shot...

I was a pro for 20 years, and my advice is born of practical experience (mostly garnered back in the days of film, when things were far more difficult)....... Be a pro, and don't over-complicate things! (You're far more likely to get in a pickle if you do) - for a well-posed group of 70...

I agree with most of what Kris says for shooting a massive group (of hundreds) - it's exactly the way we used do such things, BUT we're talking about a relatively tiny group of 70 people, and there is absolutely no need to go over the top - as I've pointed out, a carefully arranged 4 deep group...

Seems to be the season for them - a couple of snaps of "Sam" - jpegs "as they came out of the camera"

While I was Googling, I found this, taken on that selfsame staircase - http://www.flickr.com/photos/daves_portfolio/galleries/72157626859293939/#photo_5094309180 - (not by me) - they are using about 14 of the steps, and there is some discernable falloff front to back, but if you ignore the back...

Good idea to use a step ladder - even with a pretty wide angle lens the difference in distance between the lens and the subjects is not going to be enormous - if you think about it the "fall off" is going to be pretty much as great "front to back" if you use extra "off camera" lighting. In...

Good lord oh christmas, what a fuss! One decently powerful on-camera speedlite, wind up the iso to 400 or over, arrange the groups, bang away....... (I've done larger wedding groups that way in a church when it's hissing down with rain outside with no problems at all) - KISS (keep it simple!)...

I was rude (rightly) about the awful "effect", not about the photos themselves (which as I said, were pretty good) - it was a case of "why have you attempted to gild the lily?" and meant as a cry of pain about someone ruining perfectly good shots with too much bally PP (as many do).....

The "effects" were indeed utterly ghastly, the photos were actually pretty good as I'd somewhat brusquely commented (as the OP proved by reposting them without the jaundiced colour cast!)

I try to give constructive criticism, but sadly you're onto a loser - I was a touch brusque about some nice pics that had been over pp'd last week and got it in the ear for being brutally frank.... To be honest, there are some pics that come up for criticism that are just better walked away...

As you look at the picture, a softbox (or similar) behind and to the right of her, and either a second softbox (or similar) slightly in front and to the left and above her (or a reflector.......) I reckon you could accomplish similar with one light and one reflector - "bang it off the wall"...

Infinitely better!:cool: