Best Baby Shower Pictures

In traditional baby showers there is a person who records who gives the expectant mother what gifts and a person who records the images either by video or photograph (or both). This works quite well and in fact, I got many wonderful images of my own baby shower that way. But I didn’t get quite as many pictures of my friends as I would have liked and most of them were very posed and formal. Not only that but the person taking the pictures doesn’t get to enjoy everything quite as much as everyone else because of instead of participating in the fun and games they are standing back trying to capture it all.

Not too long ago I through a baby shower for my best friend. I decided I would take the pictures for the shower but I also wanted a backup plan. Nothing as fancy as several video cameras from different angles or  camera’s on tripods set up around the room on timers. Nope. I bought a half dozen disposable cameras. I asked people to pick them up and take pictures whenever they felt like it. It was tons of fun watching people get into it and the pictures they took were amazing. No one was focused on the photographer because everyone was a potential photographer. It even helped me (the official photographer) get better pictures. When everything was developed it was easy to see these were the best baby shower pictures ever.

What have you done to capture amazing baby shower pictures?

Photo Credit: Gin Snob

July 13th, 2009 by birdievogel | Posted in Techniques | (0)