So we spent Christmas in the Historic Land of Four Seasons (a.k.a. Beaver, UT) with my wife’s family. She has a big family and Grandma wanted to get a new family photo of the whole gang. This group doesn’t all get together in one place very often so we only had two days to choose from, and those two days happened to be absolutely freezing cold. Normally getting a group of 35 adults to look at a camera at the same time can be a challenge, even in warm weather. It is also a known fact that kids hate looking at cameras. I had 19 kids in this shot, and I had to be in it too. I used my radio slaves (cyber commanders from white lightning) to trigger the camera and strobes while I was in the shot. It worked pretty well, but I really could have used someone like my buddy Dirk to try and get the kids (and adults) to look towards the camera. Anyway, we stayed out just long enough to get about 15 shots off and then high-tailed it back to the house before frostbite set in. That didn’t give me much to work with, but after swapping 25 of the 35 heads from other shots, we get what you have here. Parker never warmed up to the camera unfortunately, so he’s the only one you can’t see very well. Anyway, it goes without saying, don’t try this at home.

Posted on January 29