45. WORKING WITH GROUPS II: THE ISSUE OF HEIGHT
ONE OF THE most frustrating situations for portrait photographers is posing groups. Technically, positioning them so they are all in focus is fairly easy and uncomplicated. However, when it comes to actually posing them, it confounds some photographers, myself included. There are very few rules that one must follow when posing groups, but one fairly important suggestion that helps pose a group and maintain compositional interest in the image is to avoid putting all of your subjects’ heads on the same level.
Creating a line across your frame of all of your subjects’ heads is almost tantamount to placing ...
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