What photos will you be taking for Thanksgiving?
I plan on photographing small details, faces, and the entire table. This is the year I get a photo of my husband, his dad, and Ian, a long over due photo.
Here’s my Thanksgiving shot list — and you can download a printable pdf of it for your own inspiration: Katrina Kennedy’s Thanksgiving Shot List.
1. The kitchen before cooking begins
2. Pie ingredients
3. Pie before entering the oven
2. Pie ingredients
3. Pie before entering the oven
4. Pie from above
5. Pie from the side
6. Fresh cranberries
7. The can of cranberries (ok, its not Thanksgiving without
the can)
8. The green cranberry dish (a family heirloom)
9. The table set, ready for everyone to be seated
10. An individual place setting
11. Place markers
12. Candles
13. My favorite cook book propped between ingredients
14. My dinner plate, filled
15. Ian’s plate (fun to compare how he changes over time)
16. Everyone seated at the table (if they cooperate)
17. The clock (to mark the time we eat dinner)
18. Our special turkey centerpiece
19. Our thankful leaves
20. My In-laws
21. A three generation shot of the boys (I’ve needed to take
this one for a long time)
22. A piece of pie on a plate
23. Brussel sprouts
24. Green beans
25. A glass of wine
26. A bottle of wine
27. An empty wine bottle
28. Our traditional, family self portrait
29. The kitchen aftermath
30. My happy, sleeping child
[kkennedy]