Friday, December 17, 2010

30 Shots, 11 Kids, 6 Adjustments, 1 Family Portrait


If you're thinking to yourself, "Wow, 11 kids in one picture (between the ages of 6 months and 13 years old) without anybody crying, hitting, yawning, looking away... running away... It's too good to be true!"

Well, You're right. Despite the fact that I took about 30 pictures of this same scenario, I didn't have a single shot where all the kids were 'on point'. In fact, 6 out of 11 of the kids in the above picture have been altered to make the final image. 

Most of the shots looked more like this:



The 3 year old just did not want to stand still and the baby was not happy that he had been awakened from his precious nap for this silliness. In actuality, it was a lot of fun to work with this family. They were full of energy, totally adorable, very patient and we had a lot of laughs together, BUT it was tough to get the money shot. So, I simply created it and I'm pretty happy with the end result. 

1 comment:

  1. I cracked up when i read this. The family should have a huge colored print of the altered one and then three black and whites underneath it. HAHA. True life right there!

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