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Photo Tips for Prom by Anthony Brett Schreck Follow these tips to make sure prom memories last forever Article rating: 8.13

Make your pictures tell your special prom story. I would cover it similar to a wedding. Create images of everyone getting ready for the evening. Full-length pictures of the girls, guys and couples. Take photojournalistic style shots of grand march and the dance. Make it a visual journey of your experience.

Shooting Tips

1. Watch your background

• Don't let plants or trees grow out of peoples heads.
• Isolate your subject get space between them and the wall behind them. You wont get a distracting shadow on the wall then.

2. Use your flash for fill light outside

• Force the flash on.

• This will add catch lights in the eyes and soften shadows on the face.

  

  © Anthony Brett Schreck

3. Turn the camera for Full-length shots to the vertical position.

• Sounds simple I know, yet many people forget.

4. Use the shade outside

• Force the flash on (see camera image above)
• The shade will give a nice soft light to work with
  
  © Anthony Brett Schreck

5. Soften the flash indoors

• Bounce it off the ceiling or wall if using an external flash.
• Shoot in a well lit room
• Use a diffuser to soften the flash. You can buy one or use wax paper in a digital film card case.

6. Get close (no not the couple, the photographer).

• Get detail images to tell the story
• Close detail of the dress, jewelry and tux.
  
  © Anthony Brett Schreck
• Details of the vehicle Dads Car, the limo, or carriage whatever you plan to use.
• To do the above set your camera to Macro mode (usually illustrated by a flower)
   
   
• Force the flash off or soften it.

   

7. Posing - you've seen the celebs in the magazines, you've gotten all the tips on next top model use it

• Turn one shoulder and point it at the camera.
• Pictures taken in telephoto mode are more pleasing for portraits than the wide-angle setting.
• Take your portraits from about the forehead level of the subjects.
• Have fun! The parents will want to take a lot of pictures too. The happier you are the faster it will go.

8. Dance pictures

• Use the lighting to add atmosphere
• Force the flash on the lights may fool the camera into thinking it doesnt need the flash. 

© Anthony Brett Schreck

9. Play

Shoot from different angles (group huddle from the ground) Set the self timer on you camera, set it on the ground (lens up) huddle in a group with all your friends, look down at the camera and smile.

•    Try candle mode or slow synch  

 

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	It's great to know how to "Un-dummy Proof" a camera you can actually carry around easily...thanks! Posted by: Laura McNeely Apr 17, 2008 @ 7:29 PM EST
	The tips are quite good. However, please have the writer use grammar check. Posted by: Angie Apr 22, 2008 @ 4:47 PM EST
	The tips were very helpful. I like the suggestion about the wax paper. Posted by: Melinda Wilburn Apr 23, 2008 @ 11:6 PM EST
	The tips were great. I would like more much more tips I can use all the help I can get. Thanks Posted by: Pam May 8, 2008 @ 8:55 PM EST

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