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The silly faces project

this one rules.
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i dont think he can BE any cuter
this one is friggin awesome
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The silly faces project by fd.
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eye of einstein  Pro User  says:

yes it was...

well done
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woolennium  Pro User  says:

what a fun family...strange, but fun...
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szeing  Pro User  says:

hee. that's adorable.
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arkworld  Pro User  says:

awesome!! :D
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romaniashots  Pro User  says:

What a day brightener!
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notcatherinezeta  Pro User  says:

you should frame this and... hang it in the guest bedroom.
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arkworld  Pro User  says:

YES! guest bedroom...great idea christine! :)
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pfong says:

charming.
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SurfDaddy  Pro User  says:

Homerun!
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嘉莉-咖哩 says:

haha your family's so much fun! if i ever asked my family to do this...they would be like o_O
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awesomedia  Pro User  says:

My favs: A5,C8,F5 and F8 (now guess ;-)
Great series.

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Giandomenico Ricci  Pro User  says:

its a really fun photo i think. and more than that i think the lighting was great too!
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Bobbi C  Pro User  says:

this is great!
every family should do this!
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ChrissyCream says:

cool
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No BaBY MaMa DRaMa " Q8 group BMX " says:

v.nice shoot @_@

el90ra wayed 7elwa #_#
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fd  Pro User  says:

@notcatherinezeta: Brilliant! Definitely going to do that.
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ukaaa  Pro User  says:

Haha, this is very interesting! :)
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idle a while  Pro User  says:

adorable!
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*Rosemea  Pro User  says:

LOL!!!
I might do copy this....
Wayyyyyyyyy cool!!
Have a great weekend!
XOXOXOOX
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gregw  Pro User  says:

Great idea. Nice choice of colors. Well done!
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_Faraz  Pro User  says:

Great fun project! I love it!

Can you please describe the setup for this? like what did you use for the blue backdrop and the light looks like a wall bounced flash.
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fd  Pro User  says:

@imfaraz Thanks! I used two flashes. An on camera SB-800 with diffusion dome pointed up and back and an off-camera SB-600 bounced into an umbrella to the right of the camera. Both flashes were fired in manual at 1/8th power. Exposure bias +0.3 EV.

I shot these quickly in JPG and I shot exactly 16 for each person. I made three test shots to setup the lighting then set the camera to manual exposure and focus to churn out the shots. Each model was on stage for about 60 seconds. No post-processing was done at all except cropping. I shot my own with the help of a tripod and remote shutter.

Building the montage was done using ImageMagick. Specifically, the final image was built with the montage command ("montage -tile 8x8 -geometry 400x400+10+10 *.jpg ~/Desktop/silly_faces_project.jpg").

The blue background is a wall in my home.
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fd  Pro User  says:

Thanks, everybody!
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yolilin  Pro User  says:

wow~ fantastic!!!! love it!
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aarjen - back a bit  Pro User  says:

Great concept and hilarious result!! Well done u all.
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seannyK  Pro User  says:

Awesome, you guys are so adorable!
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The Little Lady says:

great lighting and you and your family are very expressive/creative! maybe a future performing on stage . . . :)

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Daniel Montesinos says:

This is so great. You make my day, thanks!!! :oD
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are you my rik? says:

i soooo need this for my family. seriously. thanks, john, for some (not so) seriously inspiring stuff. =]
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luvi  Pro User  says:

Lovely composit! :)
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madswisscow  Pro User  says:

Exactly what I needed to perk me up after today ! Thank you very much !
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JimmyOKelly  Pro User  says:

This just looks like so much fun...so cool!
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Tracy777  Pro User  says:

Love this..what a fun idea!!
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brown-dog  Pro User  says:

Thats one crazy family you have there
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MatthewGordon says:

amazing.
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Lady Strathconn  Pro User  says:

Love it!
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guynameddave  Pro User  says:

really cool.
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DIgital DI  Pro User  says:

your kids cannot be any cuter. i love that the personality of the entire family shines through.
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T.P.Q. says:

how fun!!!
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kloh  Pro User  says:

Great idea, John. Looks like your family had a great time doing it too!
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toyfoto  Pro User  says:

This is stunning. STUNNING!
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fd  Pro User  says:

@toyfoto, in a *good* way, I hope. ;-)

Thanks again everybody.
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Rami Mohsen  Pro User  says:

i love it , this is great
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VIR22  Pro User  says:

awesome!!



this is great!!!!
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Michael in San Diego, California  Pro User  says:

That's a great idea. A very interesting montage. Your description of how you did it was very well written. I saw it on photodoto.com.
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photolensrental.com says:

How Fun!! I think I might have to bribe my kids to do something like this :)

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trey'sgrasshopper says:

Wow! Amazing. What a wonderful gift to your family. I would love to do something like this with my husband. But, I don't have such a cool blue wall as you do.
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Chris Hernandez  Pro User  says:

awesome, this made my day!
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toyfoto  Pro User  says:

Of course in a good way. this right here is genius.
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horizontal.integration says:

Thanks for the info on how you did this just great to understand your workflow. Love the final result and how fast you were able to achieve it. Pro stuff!
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~Isra~ [deleted] says:

Your family is adorable
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diceliving  Pro User  says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called A to Z and all things flickr, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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Gabi Butcher  Pro User  says:

This is AMAZING and so much FUN!!!
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travelling.steve  Pro User  says:

Thanks for the great photo and the technical details of how you achieved this. It's certainly inspired me to think about some set piece photography more.
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ρrakaz  Pro User  says:

lol!
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robwoods20 says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Your Favorite Goofy Pictures, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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Jade M. Sheldon  Pro User  says:

Simply fantastic...
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