What does it take to put an extended family portrait together?  Here you get to see some of the behind the scene edits that I make.

When photographing a large group, chances are high that not everyone will have their eyes open at the same time.  That is why I composite group photos by combining several photos into one.

This even on the beach we had a breeze blowing the hair around.  So I spend some time on the hair, getting rid of distracting fly aways.
With this group, I only had two with eyes closed that I needed to be fixed.

So there you have it.  Before and after below.

and here is the final image presented to client.