91. How To Be Awesome At Getting The Right Photos For Your Event
How To Be Awesome At Everything
Lindsay Dickhout
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Today, we're talking about parties!! And specifically, capturing the right pictures at your event.
It's so easy to spend so much time and money planning for your party, but then not actually capture all the different parts of and the special moments.
Celebrating and parties are so much fun and the photos are the best way to remember the moments and the details. Lindsay breaks it all down in this one!
Lindsay's photographer- if you're in OC… she highly recommends him!
Greg Loza
Here are some of the tips Lindsay covers:
📸 Make sure you have someone designated to take the photos - so it's not on you!
📸 Take the photos 30 minutes before the party actually starts so you aren't trying to get the shots during the party.
📸 Give your list to your photographer a week ahead of time so they can digest it.
📸 Have your vendors in place 30 minutes before party start too so you can take pictures of the entire event.
Here is your party photo checklist!
📸 Family group picture in front of dessert table
📸 Family group picture in front of the other backdrop
📸Traditional birthday girl or a boy in front of the dessert table
📸 Fun or creative picture of birthday person in front of the dessert table
📸 Traditional birthday girl or a boy in front of the photo booth
📸 Traditional photo of birthday girl or a boy with siblings… either at dessert table or other backdrop or in a place that captures the entire party ambience
📸 Birthday girl or boy with both parents
📸 Wide shots of the party set up in the ambience
📸 And detailed photos of all the special elements… Dessert table and activity tables… Drinks and food
📸 Bring one of the invitations if you did a live invitation
Some optional ones you might want to throw in…
📸 Each parent individually with the birthday girl or boy
📸 Photos with grandparents or special friends or family… have them come 10 minutes early
Then throughout the party…
📸 Mainly follow around the birthday boy or a girl and capture the experience through their eyes
📸 In between that… snag pictures of families together or adults together or the birthday boy or a girl playing with friends
📸 Singing happy birthday back/blowing out candles cake moment
📸 Some sort of goodbye moment… If you are making a photo book it's nice to have some sort of waving picture or a group picture
Cheers to getting all the right party photos!
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| 0:00.0 | Today, we're talking about parties and specifically capturing the right pictures at your event. |
| 0:05.4 | It's so easy to spend so much time and money planning for your party, but then not actually |
| 0:10.0 | capture all the different parts of it and the special moments. |
| 0:13.8 | I am a wannabe professional party planner, and in my years of throwing kids parties and |
| 0:17.9 | adult parties and work parties, I've learned so many hacks for |
| 0:21.5 | planning ahead to be sure you get all the photos that you want. This is also how I don't have |
| 0:27.1 | after party let down. You know that feeling after an event that you throw when the parties seem to |
| 0:32.4 | go by so fast, especially compared to how long it took you to plan and you just feel sort of |
| 0:37.2 | bummed out that |
| 0:37.9 | it's over and what now. |
| 0:39.8 | But by having so many great pictures, I don't feel this way. |
| 0:43.8 | Celebrating and parties are so much fun and the photos are the best way to remember the |
| 0:48.5 | moments and the details. |
| 0:50.3 | Today, we're talking about how to plan ahead so you can capture it all. |
| 0:54.0 | Let's go. |
| 0:54.6 | You're listening to the How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast, where we're obsessed with |
| 0:59.8 | life hacks that make your life more awesome. Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur |
| 1:05.3 | and business owner, a mom and wife, and someone who wants to do things over the top at all times. This concept started |
| 1:12.8 | as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting to give to her kids one day. |
| 1:17.6 | And now it's a podcast. Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome at everything |
| 1:23.1 | we do. Here's Lindsay. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm so glad you're here with me today. |
| 1:31.1 | This is a really fun one. I love celebrations. And I think that now more than ever, |
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