Jeff Smith. Posing Techniques for Location Portrait Photography. 2008

trasting colors or tones, the family members (especially the mothers) often
feel like the babies are lost in the overall grouping.

Posing.

Before planning the poses for the group, you need to decide how the portrait
will be composed. Will it be a waist-up shot? A head-and-shoulders? A full-

GROUP PORTRAITS 101

LEFT(TOP AND BOTTOM)—Here, the two girls are posed for a three-quar-

ter-length portrait.RIGHT(TOP AND BOTTOM)—Creating a head-and-

shoulders image of the same subjects requires more than just zooming

in. The young ladies had to be re-posed in order to bring their heads

closer together.