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Baby Shower
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Capturing the moments of your baby shower
via digital camera photos or a video is something that you should
plan. You, as either the hostess or the mom-to-be, will be
busy with many things on the day of the party. It seems easy
enough to snap a few shots of the mom and the guests, but this
thinking will run you into a panic during the party. As the
hostess, you'll be busy making sure your guests are greeted,
introduced to others, have a beverage, and play the games among many
other things. As the mom-to-be, you'll be busy chatting with
guests, opening presents, and, most importantly, YOU should be in
the pictures. So, given this, you should assign a willing
person to take the pictures of your baby shower.
Who should
take the pictures?
Make sure that you choose someone who is
comfortable using a camera or video recorder. If your mom is
"technology challenged", just don't ask her. Ask the chosen
person weeks ahead of time. Make sure that she can "center"
people in a shot, knows how to focus the camera properly and also
knows how to use the flash or understand how the lighting will
affect the end result. Maybe offer for her to use your camera
and let her "play" with it days ahead of time to get used to how the
camera operates.
You'll want to pick someone that is not in
the immediate family since you'll want the mom-to-be's sister, mom,
grandma to be in the pictures too. If the party is co-ed, you
are sure to find a willing man to take the pictures since being at a
baby shower can be somewhat uncomfortable for some guys and having a
task will make him feel needed and busy.
Whoever you
decide to ask, be sure that she is excited about taking the
pictures. You'll see the enthusiasm through each shot and
you'll get great pictures if the "photographer" is wanting to do
this task. If she would rather attend the party, back off and
ask someone else. You may want to see if your
husband/boyfriend or maybe one of your co-workers would be willing
to take the pictures.
Key moments to take
pictures:
1. Mom with guest as he/she arrives
2.
Mom opening gifts
3. The cake
4. Picture of the
baby shower gifts as a grouping before the opening.
5. The
tables (if you have tables set up and decorated)
6. The
favors - take a grouping of all the favors being handed
out.
7. The room/place that the party is being
held.
8. Nice picture of the mom and the
hostess.
9. A side-shot of the mom (to show her belly
off)
10. Pictures during the games.
11. The
buffett if one is set up. (Don't take pictures of people
eating - it's really not very flattering)
12. Family
or friends picture. Take a group picture of the mom with her
college friends, hometown friends, co-workers, and family
seperately.
13. Ask the mom if there is anything else she
would like pictures of from her shower.
OK, so now you know
how to ask, who to ask and what to take pictures of during the baby
shower. Now, don't forget that having a video and pictures is
something that the mom-to-be may want as well. Finding someone
to video the baby shower is the same as for photographing it.
Just be sure it is someone who is very willing and wants to video
record the party.
For videotaping, something really
neat to do is to ask each guets to look into the camera and say
something to the mom-to-be or the dad-to-be or the baby or
all. Some guests may shy away and that is fine. Not
everyone likes to be photographed/taped. And sometimes coming
up with something to say "on the spot" is difficult. To avoid
this and to get some really neat "cameos" of your guests, you can
mention that if they want to videotape a message, they can go into
the other room whenever they can think of something to record.
That way, your guests can gather their thoughts and then record it
later. Just walking up to someone and asking for thoughts at
that moment can be uncomfortable and difficult to do.
Gift
for the helpers
If you do find someone who will video or
photograph the baby shower, show your gratitude by giving him/her a
nice gift at the end of the party. Possibly something to do
with photos like a nice picture frame or a gift
card.
Finally, if you cannot, or decide to not, find
someone to take pics of the party, then you can always hire a
photographer to do the job. Shop ahead of time and ask around
town for a good and reasonably priced videographer or
photographer.
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