I felt like I (John) had to write a little bit of how we did the photo shoot at out Church/Christian School...Mt. Calvary Baptist Church and Christian Day School, in Archdale, NC. I don't think some folks really realize all the work that had gone in to taking over 400 pictures, of which 100+ had to be usable for print. We started at 7am, or at least I did, Amy didn't arrive until around 8. I had some retakes of some of the kids that were sick when we did the first 'school pictures', and some of the teachers/coaches. Then it was on to the barrage of outside, naturally-lit, portrait style pictures. My wife, Amy, is very creative and came up with a spot literally right outside the church doors. She used some Dogwood 'clippings' to give highlights to the background and we fill lighted with a golden 42" reflector as needed. At certain times when the sun would peek out, we used a 42" sheer scrim disc to filter out the bright lights. When possible, most shot were taken at a wide open f2.8 to give a greater depth of field. Almost all shots were taken using the Nikon D90 hitched up to the Nikon 80-200 f2.8 beast that I have. All I can say is what a wonderful portrait lens that has turned out to be!
We had to make just about every shot count as time was extremely limited and Amy wanted to get at least two poses from each of the 74 kids that were there that day. I free handed some, tripod the rest and flashed some with the Nikon SB800. When I get consent, I will try and post some of the kids, that aren't mine here for some examples.
God-Bless,
John and Amy
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