Amy stays near the group, reads off combinations, poses and positions each person (click hereto watch a free posing class with us!) and looks for anything that’s out of order. We always divide and conquer family and group portraits to expedite the process. Here are our top focus tips for getting sharp family and group portraits on a wedding day or during a large group family session. Lastly, the larger the group is, the more combinations they want and the less time there is to work with (which is basically all wedding days!), the more pressure and room for error there is - which makes it really important for the technical part to be second nature to the photographer, so the photographer can focus (pun intended) on giving the clients a fantastic experience. The goal of family portraits is to get every member of the group in sharp focus, so when the family prints the photos for their wall or an album, they look beautiful and professional.There’s not a huge creative license - because there’s rarely time for it. Family and group portraits are a little more utilitarian.We only get one crack at those, and they have a completely different purpose. Time.įamily and group portraits? That’s a different story. So if a few shots of the couple are soft (here and there) in order to get some perfectly crisp ones with the creamy background that f/1.2 – f/2.0 gives us, then it’s worth it. Especially on wedding days when we’re shooting wide open, at lower apertures like f/1.2 – f/2.0, with a bride and groom who are moving - and that’s okay! Because we have a lot more time with the couple than we do for family photos, for example, where we only get the fire the shutter a few times. That’s not a realistic expectation for anyone. We’d be lying if we told you that every image we take is tack sharp. That was SO HARD for perfectionists like us! It still is today. Maybe your images look sharp on the back of your screen, but when you get home they’re a little soft. Have you been there? We want to change that for you today! In those moments, the doubts that had lingered in the back of our mind for months got louder. We remember exactly what it felt like to be nervous at a session, acting calm and positive in front of the client (Everything looks great, guys! Perfect!) while inside we were secretly scared to death, because someone had finally PAID US to take their pictures… and we were realizing the group images weren’t even IN FOCUS. A few specific focus tips can make all the difference in walking onto a session with confidence. How do you get such sharp family and group portraits? It’s one of the most common questions we get from photographers - because it’s one of the most normal technical challenges new photographers have.
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