09/15/2026
One musician. Four roles. One band. 🎸🥁
For Emery’s senior session, we wanted to create something that reflected a big part of who he is—music.
So instead of photographing one musician, we created an entire band.
Emery played the guitarist, vocalist, drummer and bassist, photographed separately and then brought together into one composite portrait in front of an old boxcar here in Northville.
The finished image was only half the fun. The shoot involved careful planning of camera position, focus, depth of field, wardrobe, poses and lighting so that four separate photographs would ultimately look like one real band portrait.
I put together a behind-the-scenes blog showing how we planned, photographed and edited the image—from more than 150 original frames to the final composite.
👉 Read the full story:
https://clearframephotos.com/northville-senior-photography-band-composite/
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