Inspiration and advice - Please?

[pjwalker]

Hi all,
I have been asked at work to do some shots of the staff from a particular dept. I work in a school and the team in Learning support would like something fun of all of them (approx 20 people). I have been asked due to the dreaded 'he's got a big camera syndrome' I am still very much learning about photography and untill now have only really taken quite close up shots of my 2 toddler daughters with any success.
Without being too disrespectful to the ladies in Learning support, my daughters lend themselves more to being photographed than some of them, and as such, I am wondering if any of you have any suggestions for making the best of what is becoming a bad situation! They want individual shots and I was thinking of shooting them against a white background to then try and merge the images to create some sort of interesting shot (Sgt Peppers cover etc)
Is that going to be feasible? successful? a nightmare to do?
Any thoughts / comments / good luck messages would be very much appreciated.
Cheers
Paul

 

[Alastair]

Read through the Assignment reports on the Strobist blog.. I think a lot of people are aware f the Strobist 101 tutorials but may not be aware of the Assignments. There's a lot of real life 'togging situations in those reports and Dave Hobby is usually very good at talking through his thought processes.

 

[pjwalker]

Cheers Alastair, will do

 

[photogwannabe]

Do you have an adventure playground (climbing things) that you could pose them on?

 

[pjwalker]

I like your thinking with the climbing frame, we don't, but I teach PE and you have got me thinking about using some Gymnastics equipment!