Great tips! Can’t wait for the next one of this series!!

BTW, this episode comes at a very opportune moment episode since I’m getting into portraiting and I’m very interested in all those techniques and advices. Funny thing is that I was not a person interested in portraits till I came up to your podcasts. Now I just can’t stop taking people shots, I’m loving it!

I’ve always been trying to get the most from your episodes using my compact camera, but now I’ve just bought a dSLR and hope entirely to take advantage of your experience.

Really would like to thank you for your work and dedication to photography podcasting.

Kind regards,

Andre

For group shots like this have the people turn to their sides. So let’s say it’s a group of 10 in a straight line, have the five on the left turn a bit to the right and have the 5 on the right turn a bit to their left. That will reduce every individual’s ‘volume’ in relation to the camera and make them all look slimmer. A body facing the camera looks larger than a body in profile to the camera. Hope that helps! Marko

I had two questions while listening to this; maybe these will be topics for an upcoming podcast. First of all, related to the discussion of broad/short lighting, I was wondering how great would the difference be from shadow to light? 1/2 stop, 1 stop? From the pictures above it looks like a bit under 1 stop to me.

Secondly, I often take pictures of groups of people, maybe 5–10, that might *all* want to look a little slimmer. It seems like short lighting would be a bit extra challenging in this situation, maybe requiring multiple strobes, or the lighting across the group would be uneven. Do you have any tips in this area?