Oh, and one other thing. You'll have problems with tall kids blocking the short kids, etc. It can help if you tell them over and over "if you can't see the camera, you need to move. If you can't see the camera, the camera can't see you."
stan On May 28, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Tim Bray wrote: > Since the Little League’s “real photographer” is unavailable, I’ve > been asked to shoot the annual portrait of the 45 “graduating” > 12-year-old players and get 5x7’s made for them. Group shot, not > portraits. I’ve never done anything remotely like this and if anyone > here has, advice would be welcome. Not just cameras but > composition/procedure/whatever. > > It’ll be on the grass by the traditional-looking scoreboard. > > This will be the K-5. My thinking is that even if we can squeeze them > into 3 rows (and it may just be 2), it’s a pretty wide shot. So I’m > thinking of my wide lenses, the 21mm Limited and 30mm Sigma f1.4. My > *sharpest* lenses are the 100mm Macro and 50-135, but I don’t think > either are gonna work in this scenario. This is where having the > 18-55 might be useful... > > Anyhow, any wisdom would be greatly appreciated. -T > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
