A group of students at my school want to start up a charity fashion show with the colour red as there predominant theme. They’re using red as they hope to raise money for heart disease research. Recently they approached me to take a couple photos of their exec team so I decided to volunteer a couple hours on a Sunday night to help them out.

For this group photo I knew I had too many people to pose normally as the white background these people provided was not wide enough for group large group photos but it was certainly long enough for us to all lie down. I was wondering on how to light this using my one flash and I realized it was really really simple. Just fire the flash off camera and bounce the light on the ceiling!

Another important aspect of photography that I have learned recently is that we not only need to get our technical details such as lighting and camera settings right, but we also must somehow get the subject to show the right emotion at the right time. This is where one’s communication skills come into play and I had a lot of fun getting everyone to do something weird and silly in the photo below: