From the course: Exploring Photography: Family and Group Portraiture

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From the course: Exploring Photography: Family and Group Portraiture

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- Hi, I'm Natalie Fobes and welcome to Family and Group Portraiture. In this course, we'll explore what makes an effective group portrait. We'll talk about the importance of the message of the portrait and how that will determine your location, your lighting, and your posing. We'll give you some tips on clothing and jewelry and how to make sure that the attention is on your people and not what they're wearing. We'll start with one person and show you the basic poses for a man and for a woman and then we'll add another and show you the smallest of all group shots, the twosome. After that, we'll talk about how important subgroups are. These subgroups are two, or three, or four people and how these are really the building blocks of a larger group portrait. You'll come along with me as you see me work with a large group and use these small subgroups. There are times that even the best photographer catches a blink or a funny expression. I'll show you how to fix that in Photoshop. And finally, it's important to know the rules but also know that you can break them. By breaking the rules, we feed our creativity and that helps us grow as photographers. So, let's get started with Family and Group Portraiture.

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