Awkward Family Photo

For this picture I tried to stage an awkward family portrait, where one of the subjects (Sam) was looking in another direction with a cheeky smile to add a comic edge to the picture. I then photoshopped a common backdrop into the picture to make the "awkward family photo" look more realistic. For this I used 3-point lighting with two lights on either side of the subjects and a third light with a diffuser so that there was a soft light on the front of the subjects' faces.