Hi,
Our daughter's first birthday is next month, and I'd love to get a good cake smash shoot. Trouble is, the venue offers some challenges, and since she's our first baby we have no experience with cake smash shoots.
This is our venue:
Athens-Clarke County, GA - Official Website - Crow's Nest #1 Photos
As you can see, it's a woodland spot with no grassy areas and funky dappled lighting. There aren't any open grassy areas nearby; we already scouted the place out for those.
Budget is also a major issue, so we can't buy a pretty vintage wooden high chair for her to sit in and go at the cake.
I'm looking for any and all tips anyone can offer me for taking great photos there, but specifically:
- What do you suggest for a background? Not sure right now whether we can pin/nail/tack things to the structure itself, but if we can't, that rules out pinning up a sheet. I'd love to incorporate some bunting into the photo, somehow. Also note that the trees are too tall and branch-less to hang anything from!
- Uh, where do I put the cake? I know that's an odd one, but seriously? Most cake smash shoots I've seen are indoor and have the cake on the floor on a plate. What do I do if the ground is uneven?
- Can anyone think of a creative (and safe) way I can incorporate shipping pallets? I've found four shipping pallets for free on Craigslist (I was looking for a vintage high chair, but no luck). I hadn't thought of using them but now that I've seen them, is there any good way I might be able to get them in? (I'm not overly attached to this idea or anything, but it's a thought)
(Maybe if I stacked them and used them as a table to put the cake on?)
Thanks!
Our daughter's first birthday is next month, and I'd love to get a good cake smash shoot. Trouble is, the venue offers some challenges, and since she's our first baby we have no experience with cake smash shoots.
This is our venue:
Athens-Clarke County, GA - Official Website - Crow's Nest #1 Photos
As you can see, it's a woodland spot with no grassy areas and funky dappled lighting. There aren't any open grassy areas nearby; we already scouted the place out for those.
Budget is also a major issue, so we can't buy a pretty vintage wooden high chair for her to sit in and go at the cake.
I'm looking for any and all tips anyone can offer me for taking great photos there, but specifically:
- What do you suggest for a background? Not sure right now whether we can pin/nail/tack things to the structure itself, but if we can't, that rules out pinning up a sheet. I'd love to incorporate some bunting into the photo, somehow. Also note that the trees are too tall and branch-less to hang anything from!
- Uh, where do I put the cake? I know that's an odd one, but seriously? Most cake smash shoots I've seen are indoor and have the cake on the floor on a plate. What do I do if the ground is uneven?
- Can anyone think of a creative (and safe) way I can incorporate shipping pallets? I've found four shipping pallets for free on Craigslist (I was looking for a vintage high chair, but no luck). I hadn't thought of using them but now that I've seen them, is there any good way I might be able to get them in? (I'm not overly attached to this idea or anything, but it's a thought)
(Maybe if I stacked them and used them as a table to put the cake on?)
Thanks!