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3 Creative Family Photo Ideas for Thanksgiving Day Written by: Brandon Harris, Smooth Photo Scanning Services
Thanksgiving is one of the most celebrated holidays of the year, bringing families together and creating precious moments that will be remembered for years to come.
Therefore, it’s not surprising that many families are looking for the best ways to immortalize those moments in unique and exciting family photoshoots.
But how can you create the perfect family photos for Thanksgiving Day?
Well, to make the process easier, here are a few simple ideas you could try out.
Capture Your Family in Action
Although posed photos are great, you should also try to capture the moments of Thanksgiving Day as it unfolds, since the interactions between family members can sometimes create the liveliest and most memorable photographs.
Sometimes, you may find that the ‘behind the scenes’ photoshoots that capture what happens when the guests are gathering, or when the food is being prepared, can be the most authentic, and the ones that generate the most laughs when you revisit them later on.
Seeing the faces of people light up when they embrace someone they haven’t seen for a while is a moment that’s worth remembering, so try to continuously snap pictures, as you can always sort the ones that end up being the best later on.
Focus on the Details
When capturing your family’s Thanksgiving Day, it’s good to mix and match different approaches.
For instance, if you love taking a lot of wide shots that capture the entire room, you should also consider using a zoom lens to capture the vivid details that might otherwise go unnoticed.
A zoom lens allows capturing close-up portraits of individual people, as well as various details and little touches from the day, which will help bring all of your pictures to life and create some balance between different types of shots.
Go Digital
When imagining a Thanksgiving photo album, the first image that you might have is that of a beautifully-bound album containing printed photographs.
However, while that is certainly an option, today, more and more families are instead opting to keep their photo collections digital, with some even using photo scanning services to digitize their older photo collections.
This way, you can be sure that your photos will be around for as long as you want – even your grandchildren and their children will be able to relive the moments that you capture in vivid detail, without any deterioration of the images.
What’s more, digital photographs are also much easier to share – you can send them to your family members thousands of miles away in mere seconds, or post them on social media for everyone to see.
Finally, just as you might create wedding photo slideshow to commemorate your special day, many families may want a similar slideshow for their Thanksgiving Day photographs as well, which is why having enough digitized high-quality images is so important.
In the end, while having physical copies of the photos may be appealing and is still an option you should consider, you should make sure to back up your photographs in a digital format, as physical copies will eventually deteriorate, and are always one accident away from being lost forever.
My father has been in the document scanning industry for as long as I can remember. I worked for his company Smooth Solutions, Inc. during summer breaks growing up and for a couple years after college. Wanting to venture off on my own, I gained experience in several careers including wholesale seafood sales as well as owning and operating a bakery for several years. When my father approached me with the opportunity to expand upon his already successful business by providing high quality, professional scanning services to the general public, I jumped on board. From personal experience, I recognize how important it is for most people to have their family memorabilia preserved for future generations and I want to be a part of helping others do that.