The new job requires me to take digital photos of employees for our internal newsletter. The boss wants me to take “creative and semi-goofy” ones… Any ideas? We have one group of eight people, another group of thirteen and a group of two.
The boss’ ideas were: 1) Take the larger groups outside in the snow and stage a snowfight. 2) Employee pyramid
By the way, if I could hire a professional photographer, I would.
Whatever you do, don’t take pictures of them in their offices wearing just their ID badges. :eek:
Group shots are good from above. Have one person, closest to the camera, pretend to be aiming a snowball at the camera and the others smiling at the camera.
Fill the frame! Remember to zoom in as close as reasonably possible while keeping everyone in the shot, and tell everyone to make sure there is a clear line of sight between their face and the camera (no backs turned, hands in front of faces etc.).
If you are close enough, use the flash even in daylight to highlight people’s eyes and light up shadows.
Try turning the camera on a diagonal angle for a quirky action shot.
In snow, the camera is sometimes fooled into overexposure. Try not to get too much white in the frame (best acheived by, like I said, filling the frame with faces/action).
Hope this helps.
Dang. As an accountant, I shouldn’t even bother.
I was going to suggest the pyramid.
[sub]Where you been, Gazelle! What, they expect you to WORK at this new job?!?[/sub]
Yep, scoutybaby, they expect me to work! Weird, huh?
Hey SentientMeat, thanks for the suggestions!
Take the group out and have them mix into a large group of strangers or have the ‘hide’ in the office with only thier faces showing a little.
Then in the newsletter have a ‘Find the Whatever Department’ in the photo game. People have to circle the the employees and send in the picture to win a prize.
Don’t forget to use unusual camera angles. Get down low to the floor and take pictures of people leaning over you. Stand on a chair or stepladder and shoot down from above.
How about get a shot of everyone at their desks, working, while one of them is about to punch a paper bag (for explosion sound) infront of a megaphone.
Maybe too childish…
Oh my. If there is enough light (and in an office building with flourescents, there probably isn’t, 't use the flash up closeheir noses and cheeks will be super overexposed (usually) and their pupils will either be dialated to pinpoints, or red as the zombies in 28 Days Later.
I agree with the unusual camera angles, and I like Sekhmett Kiba’s suggestion. That’s cute.