Today, I had my first large group photo session of 200+ people. My past has been with about 30+ and found it reasonably manageable. However, I had no assistants and no backups shooting with me this afternoon. Talk about a suddenly stressful situation.
I originally was going for a straight on which worked, but with a sudden influx of more people I had to go higher up and cockeyed to get everyone in. At that point, already with some folks waiting nearly 10 minutes in the Singapore 31º or so weather, they weren't very open to suggestions for moving this way or that. As such, you get a result like attached for original plus balancing, then straightening and cropping.
Any tips for better managing these kind of situations from guiding people to equipment usage. I was figuring on about 150+ people and my 18-35mm being fine, but I ended up having to hit a 3rd floor landing to get most everyone in. Further, I was having to holler to move people around for a reasonable effect.