15 min, 29 people, 1 photo, 1 flash
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Amplify’d from www.zarias.com
On the next to the last day of Gulf Photo Plus I was informed by GPP organizer, Mohamed Somji, that I had the “privilege” of shooting the group shot of all the GPP staff and photographers. I would be given 15 minutes to set up and execute the shot with 25 to 40 people.
I have done countless group shots in my young career but never one that had folks like Joe McNally, Drew Gardner, David Hobby, Chase Jarvis, David Nightingale, and on and on and on. No pressure.
This is what each individual shot looked like…
This is what the group shot looks like without the auditorium showing through…
Here is the auditorium. I would use this image to mask parts of the ambient back into the group shot.
The final shot was 34 layers tall. 28 layers of people and 6 layers of ambient light and details like the the strobe painting on the back wall panels.
