Need ideas for a work project

KvPhoto

A little background first, I work at a nursery school and we have an auction every year to raise money for the school(learn more about the school here www.rnsfc.org) Last year I produce our first photo book, it consisted of individual pictures of each child in the school in their favorite dress up garb. That time of year is upon us again and I am trying to come up with a new theme but am hitting a though process road block. Can anyone help me out with ideas? There are aout 70 kids in the school currently. I plan to set up our spare classroom as a mini studio with a black backdrop. I do not have any studio lighting as of yet but am hoping I might be able to jerry rig one light witha reflector and or umbrella. I do not have much experience with studio lighting. Any suggestions for topic or lighting techniques would be much appreciatted!

quark

Ideas:
1. What about "color"? You could ask the kids to wear primary colors and then mix in props like crayons and paints. That should give you enough diversity to get a cool set of pictures. If you wanted to avoid the studio "poses" you could provide a huge roll of butcher paper for the kids to make a giant group painting on. Then you could get great candids of them making art/mess.

2. Shapes. You could bring in props from home and the school in circle/square/triangle themes. Wheels, plates, blocks, etc for each child and then have one prop per child.

KvPhoto

quark wrote:

Ideas:
1. What about "color"? You could ask the kids to wear primary colors and then mix in props like crayons and paints. That should give you enough diversity to get a cool set of pictures. If you wanted to avoid the studio "poses" you could provide a huge roll of butcher paper for the kids to make a giant group painting on. Then you could get great candids of them making art/mess.

2. Shapes. You could bring in props from home and the school in circle/square/triangle themes. Wheels, plates, blocks, etc for each child and then have one prop per child.

Thanks Quark. Since posting I have come up with what I hope is a feasible idea. A dress up book of all the children dressed as story book characters. I am just trying to figure out which characters would work best and come up with enough for 70 kids!