So let's have a look at some of the basic principles of group shots. Things we need to know even lighting works best for large groups. And we want to pose them in banks. So let's go and have a look at some lighting setups and see how all that works. So here's a standard group shot to banks. Sometimes, if there's lots of people, you can have free banks with people sitting on the floor, but usually two banks is not flattering for people.
We're going to put the tall gentleman at the back and we're going to see the ladies. Now we're posing all of these individually, as you can see, would take time to make sure each one of them is posed how we want them to be posed. Let's have a look at the lighting on this because it can be a little bit interesting. Now not on what I'm trying to show you here. Normally we wouldn't use flashes for a large group like this unless was on site or was in an environmental situation. So to compensate for the low power output of the flashes in compared to To studio strobes, we've increased our ISO to 400, which you can see here and these flashes that then maxed out.
Remember all the floor plans and settings are available. So these are shooting at full power, or ISO 400 to give us a little bit more light, and we've just got a couple of lights just shining on the background. We could even turn them around the shine them give a little bit of room on the edges if we wanted to. But in this scenario, we've kept this simple, little bit of light on the background just to ease off any shadows are actually falling on the background from these umbrellas which have become small light sources because they're further away. Now what we have to notice with this is it's really important to understand this light is shining onto the male subject of the back and this light is doing the same on the other subject. The center of this umbrella is going to be where most of the light is.
So by using the center of the umbrella and aim in the mail The back what we've done saying we want a little bit more light on them. And then we're going to have what's called a number lighting, which is the edge of the light, which isn't quite as powerful falling on the ladies. Now the reason we've done that is because the men are further away, so there's going to be a light fall off is gonna be less light hitting the men. So by using this technique, what we can do is just make sure the majority of the light is going into the subject space. And then the number lighting, which is PNUMB are used for number lighting is going to fall on our female subjects. And we're going to get a little bit more even, it's never going to be completely even, it's gonna be a little bit more even than if we shine the umbrellas on the ladies at the front because the guys in the back would be completely in shadow.
So that's a really simple group setup. You've noticed that you notice as well that we've posed each of the individual slightly different In this scenario to create some interest