Prom Portraits Austin Texas
by admin on May.18, 2010, under For Event Industry Professionals, For Event Planners, For Photographers, General
Well…. I am sure glad that this past weekend is over! Might I suggest to anyone considering photographing three proms and one corporate event in one evening to reconsider, as it is as risky as jumping into a bull ring with a raging bull with no protection! Coordinating all the people and equipment needed for one prom alone is no small feat, but multiply that by three and throw in a huge corporate party with a famous country singer needing more than 500 5×7′s delivered that night, and you have a logistical nightmare!
But don’t get me wrong… we pulled it off! Of course it has taken me three days to even start to recover physically and mentally from the ordeal, but we really did pull it off… with flying colors! All three proms photographed more than 100 kids each, and we delivered 539 prints onsite at our corporate party. AND…. everyone was happy… ecstatic even! It was a total rush having everything work so well. BUT… I do not recommend it. There are just too many things that can go wrong. We spent the entire week prepping equipment and arranging people and setup schedules to be able to accomodate everything, and we still had things go wrong. Luckily, we had factored in enough time to solve the problems that inevitably came up.
My favorite part was how great the photographs turned out. These proms had some of the coolest backgrounds we have ever used. The virtual background system that we used at each allowed us to offer custom backgrounds for the students to choose from. My prom was especially awesome! I photographed about 200 kids on three different background choices. Today, I created their prom book using photos from their posed portraits as well as from the candid photos that were taken that night. I would like to especially thank Eric Hegwer, a local photographer and friend of ours who helped us out by photographing the candids. He did a great job, and the prom book for Akins High School is going to be spectacular, in part, because of him.
The other two proms did great too, and Francisco and Gabe did a fabulous job photographing them! Vista Ridge and Bowie also got some amazing images because of them.
Above is a video with portraits from each prom. Enjoy!
Kate
