Tips for Setting up a Great Group Photo

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In this clip from the CreativeLive course, Think Like a 10K Wedding Photographer, Scott Robert Lim shares his strategies for getting awesome large group photographs.
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[@Maz-2393]

That's so awesome! You are being interviewed during group photos! Nice one.

[@JungleCatImages]

This dude's AWESOME.. ideas for days.. super helpfull video

[@danieleuceda]

all you need is chairs, stairs and prayers. lol

[@babymarshmello1]

I like this video on the group shots. I do special events for a company I network with and do lots of group shots and these things you do I agree 100%. Love the lecture on it. Thumbs up.

[@GregorPQ]

The first useful one I found.

[@mashamasha8504]

Thanks for the video! It is very helpful and makes you think and be creative. You ´ve definitely got a creative approach to posing. But from the photographic perspective...could you please clarify what for did you use flash, moreover three flashes for the shoot on the beach when there were plenty of light? What was the function of the flash on this scene?

[@ericguizzetti]

Very entertaining! Very well put together!!!

[@amandacousins928]

How do I pose choirs

[@eitanlitner7207]

Amazing photographer. Thanks for that

[@arbull7264]

what are your camera settings for those group photos?

[@babybuzzoi]

thanks I just learned about longer lens compression

[@nCheero]

speed -> 1.50
Thank me later

[@myamonee_]

I wish I read this earlier lol

[@munotrohit22]

1 .25

[@smaganas]

✌️

[@vinstyles]

fab video and wonderful tips and sensational photographs. thank you so much.

[@hurleygreen927]

COOL VIDEO! I can see it took personality and a little LUCK to make these work, and you did a great job..
.were you shooting MANUAL or Aperture Priority Mode?

[@GarryBurgess]

At 0:58 is that group shot just shot with the natural light, or with some kind of fill light?

[@gerarddonovan4145]

Very good, i love your presentation style

[@ahmadmusnansyah5662]

Great job and very practical.. thanks

[@Passion613]

Awesome video!! BTW, I loved you in The Hangover!!

[@cooloox]

Great video with some excellent advice. Thanks for sharing!!

[@rajoochatlani9022]

Great tips and inspiration as usual from Scott.

[@kristerr829]

Great photos and advises. I was a little surprized you didn't straighten up the photo with ocean in the background. I am sure everybody still were satisfied with the photo. 👍☺

[@FromMyPerspectPhoto]

You remind me of Roberto Valenzuela (I know I spelled the LN wrong) when talking about posing _everyone_. lol

[@kathyrobinson1975]

Loved this! Thank you !

[@lamshao]

Great video..what lens are you using? 35mm?

[@DOUBLESHITS]

Thanks for that, really interesting and informative...

[@christianalandau8263]

Great ideas! Thanks

[@magpiephotographysaintjohn930]

Yes

[@IainHC1]

Brilliant vid! Awesome info too :-)

[@ThierryRoget]

I wish I had seend that video last week! Thanks !

[@jjbenz9633]

Thierry Roget when

[@africanbj]

Nebraska Tappin In

[@johardylambert]

Wow Awesome!!!

[@ChoicesHabitsAttitudeLuck]

IS THIS THE GUY FROM "HANGOVER"?

[@SANJAYWITHYOU]

Hernani yes I think so. This is his side business 😀

[@naagro]

If you mean the naked Asian who seemingly had a heart attack because of the cocaine - no. That's Ken Jeong, the photographer is called Scott Robert Lim.

[@Randalltcoleman]

Great ideas 👍

[@andrewgonzalez6208]

i want to know this guy

[@anilbhai2478]

6.6

[@SANJAYWITHYOU]

He looks like a karate champion 💪

[@RadhyMampera]

hiro nakamura?

[@jjbenz9633]

koji kabuto

[@kentmocc]

I learned that if I don't got anything and want to do something different, to get on the ground and shit up. That'll get their attention.
6:49

[@ambertorres1411]

LOL *tear*

[@revilowrider25]

brett, brett, brett.... oh brett..! lol.. served?

[@patrickpaulyi1351]

who is this guy????
what's his name?

[@Alexandahls]

Ken Jeong.

[@Alexandahls]

But did he die?

[@justinpaul1046]

This dude is Jo Koy....

[@alexcortez8909]

But.. did he die??

[@creativelive]

what? no, definitely not.

[@alexcortez8909]

@@creativelive Lol. It was a joke. Because he looks like Ken Jeong. It was a reference from the movie The Hangover. Sorry if it sounded bad. XD

[@zonafutbolera917]

Hangover guy ?

[@BrettMartin84]

Listen, this guy has some good advice and its great that CL posted this for free, but please check your math! Inverse square law says that if you half the distance between your flash and subject you DOUBLE the flash power... not 4x. Later you state that 1600 ISO is 16x brighter! Assuming you start at 100 ISO thats 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600.... which is 4x brighter, not 16... It took me a while to figure out how to use inverse square law properly so please don't confuse people.

[@wombat3024]

Brett, I think you need to check your maths yourself....

[@BrettMartin84]

OK, I checked. I am correct. If you start at 100 ISO and assume that is 1x brightness then what is ISO 1600? well we know that it is 4 "full stops" brighter than ISO 100. Each stop is double the light output of the previous stop. Hence ISO 1600 is 4x brighter than ISO 100. This is true for any part of the exposure triangle, shutter speed, aperture, ISO and flash output.

[@cooloox]

Quit while you are behind, Brett, you are making a fool of yourself!!
I am rewording this to be clearer: You stated that each step up in ISO doubles the exposure or doubles the brightness of the image. So ISO 200 gives twice the exposure of ISO 100. Carrying on .... ISO 400 gives 2x exposure of ISO 200 and hence 4x exposure of ISO 100. ISO 800 gives 2x exposure of ISO 400, 4x exposure of ISO 200 and 8x exposure of ISO 100. ISO 1600 gives 2x exposure of ISO 800, 4x exposure of ISO 400, 8x exposure of ISO 200 and 16x exposure of ISO 100.
This is a base 2 system so if you increase exposure by 3 stops you let in 2 to the power of 3 = 8x more light. Increase by 4 stops lets in 2 to the power of 4 = 16x the amount of light, etc.
In your earlier comment, trying to be smart, you said moving the light 2x closer doubles the light. Wrong!!!! You need to read about the inverse square law. If you double the distance without the changing the power of the flash you get 1/4 the light. If you triple the distance you get 1/9 the amount of light. If you move the flash to 4x the distance you get 1/16 the light landing on the subject and so on.
Always check your facts before you make criticisms online which might damage someone's reputation. Fortunately, most people know their stuff and know the photographer in the video is spot on and you are wrong.

[@BolekWu]

Brett, 200 ISO is 2x brighter than 100 ISO;
400 ISO is 2x brighter than 200 ISO and 4x brigther than 100 ISO;
800 ISO is 2x brigther than 400 ISO, 4x than 200 ISO, 8x than 100 ISO;
1600 ISO is 2x brighter than 800 ISO, 4x than 400 ISO, 8x than 200 ISO, 16x than 100 ISO.

[@sergeskysi6713]

LOL, Bret. You contradict yourself.

[@timmis1971]

You are more of a salesman than a photographer.

[@jameshero5755]

sounds like Sunday service at the evangelical photo correction church where you are forced to repent for your photography sins.

[@vihangakariyawasam]

Oh wow! You should've really stick to editing Boss, some of these pictures are really basic !

[@fucknancygrace]

Thanks boss!

[@RadhyMampera]

hiro nakamura?

[@joemdgrstz]

Lol, good one! I thought he looks like Ken Jeong with a long hair.

[@seamuswarren]

My first thought was Heroes. :)

[@PJSinohin]

Radhy Ampera . pose for me Ando!

[@user-xb5yw1bv4w]

Seamus Warren

[@rolandrick]

😂👍