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These are the individual elements that made our our family photo. As you can see it is 12 images. In all, I ended up with over 70 layers in photoshop.

This is a composite Image I did for our own family. The family room was shot with ambient light only. Each family grouping was shot with 4 lights. Two background edge lights at f/11 with grids, one main light @ f/8.0 and one fill in a bounced umbella at f/5.6 and one fill light.
My desire for this image was to have the the grandkids ruling the scene while grandma & grandpa look on with joy. There are many details easily overlooked. For example one little boy is pouring gas, while the other plays with matches and if you look closely you'll see a lit match. The match was lit in photoshop :-) and of course the gas can is empty. There is a picture on the wall that says family, there is a bear hanging from the light, there is graffitti on the wall in crayon and toys all over the floor and cereal coming out of the box. The image was a lot of fun. We wanted something unique for our family photo and I think we got it.

This is one image of 11 for our family picture. two studio background lights with strip boxes & grids on both side behind the subject. One ezybox 30" softbox with outer diffusion removed camera left and one SB900 bounced from reflective umbrella on camera right for fill.

f/8.0 - 63mm, ISO 200, 1/200 of a sec. EZYbox cam left with SB900, SB600 on right hand held bounced off of white pillow for fill. All fired wirelessly with SB900 on Camera.

SB900 camera right through Lastolite EZBox at 1/4 power. Fired wirelessly with 2nd SB900 on camera as master only.