Although cakes and gifts are very important at a birthday party, the pictures you capture are even more important! You can find pictures of birthday celebrations in picture frames on desks and tabletops around the country, especially when the boy or girl being celebrated is a child. Cameras were made for special celebrations like these! The birthday party is rocking with games, emotions, and fun memories. The following suggestions will help you capture those memories easily:
• Make plans ahead of time. As you have planned ahead and chosen the theme for your birthday party, the place where it is going to be held, the food to be served, and more, make arrangements for your photos as well. Refill the battery in your camera, prepare your memory card, and make a mental list of the shots you want to take.
• Warm up guests by interacting with them on their own and with their camera, joking with them, and setting an attractive mood. This is especially important when party-goers are children.
• When you are taking pictures at a child's birthday party, make sure you get down to their level. Shooting higher than the level of the child only keeps a child more and more comfortable with you, moreover, it allows you to get great shots that cannot be achieved by staring the child down.
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• Birthday photos usually look best if you zoom in, filling the entire frame. However, you want to capture some wide-angle pictures that depict the entire scene. You can also choose to emphasize shots of individuals or a smaller set of people.
• Be sure to take some pictures of the cake, such as shots of the cake while it is lit with birthday candles. You can choose to turn off your camera's flash when taking a picture of a burnt cake, to capture it in ambient light. While shooting from the top of the cake, go just above it, stand on a chair if needed. Shooting over the cake, but not just above it can make the photo look distorted.
• Make sure you have got some pictures of a birthday boy or girl, these are classic and extremely important to document the occasion. Using the Night Portrait function on your camera is a good way to get this shot if it is in the right light.
• Something that often causes birthday photos is a little too busy looking clutter that is sure to pile up at the party, especially as a result of the opening of the birthday gift. When possible, keep the primary object of your photo clean by reducing clutter.
• Other important shots include party decorations, gifts being opened, adults in attendance, and children attending the games.
• Be sure to keep an eye out for candid shots that clearly show the taste of the party.
• When deciding on picture frames to display your favorite shots, you want to go with frames that are birthday themed, or perhaps collage picture frames that enable you to frame different pictures in a single frame.
With some preparation and foreshadowing, your birthday snapshots will all be of picture frame quality and capture the special moments of the birthday party to save them forever.