Why Your Group Shots Look Wrong — And the Physics That Fixes Them

Why Your Group Shots Look Wrong — And the Physics That Fixes Them

I had a corporate client last spring — twelve people, a small conference room, a two-hour window. I walked in with a 35mm and a single large softbox because I thought I could work fast. The images came back technically exposed, technically sharp, and completely wrong. The front-row faces looked wider than the back row faces. The edges of the frame looked like a funhouse mirror. The lighting dropped off so hard by the third row that I was fighting it in post for an hour.