Hey @bennett-family,
Thank you so much for your reply! I had just come home when your response came in, but you gave me some good food for consideration looking back on the shoot and looking forward for anything I’ll do in the future. 🙂 My group was thankfully in a more mature age range…14-70(ish) so they could all stay fairly still and not mind my “shouting” at them across the park. I ended up shooting all but one pose with the 70-200mm. I could have shot the 50mm pose with the 70-200mm lens, but another group of folks (12+ of them I think) were standing right behind me, so I couldn’t back up far enough without running into them. And I wasn’t just going to ask them to move for 5 minutes…too much outside my comfort zone, haha. 😉 Thankfully, it hadn’t started raining yet so lens switching was no problem!
Overall, the shoot went really well! The sun was shining when we got to the park (which was great minus having to compensate for the tree shadowing), then it got cloudy (even better!!), but then it started to sprinkle (not so great). There were lots of trees and arbours so no one got substantially wet. 🙂 The hardest part was getting everyone to look at me at the same time, hence, I’m glad I was shooting in Continuous Mode. I have a dramatic family so getting them to be serious instead of goofy was hard as well…the motto was “Keepin’ in real.” So there were plenty of candid shots!
Thanks again, Lydia! 🙂