CHAPTER 6
GROUPS
Early in my journey with strobes, I bumped into a problem that many photographers who are new to lighting encounter. I had reached the point that I could create the soft, natural light look I was going for when I was photographing one person. As soon as I added more people, everything seemed to fall apart.
I remember one session in particular that still haunts me to this day: A couple came in with one-year-old twins for holiday photos. It was mid-November, the kind of day so dark and stormy that the streetlights never turn off.
At that point in my career, I’d become a lighting-hybrid photographer, using strobes when working with one person and trying to make natural light work when photographing groups. But on this day, there ...
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