5 tips for better candid photos from your guests

Tell them what you actually want. "Take photos" gets posed group shots. "Take a photo of whatever’s making you laugh right now" gets the album you’ll actually want to look back on. Say the second one, out loud, when you hand out the QR code.

Put the QR code somewhere guests will linger. A table centerpiece works better than a sign by the door, people scan it while they’re already sitting and relaxed, not on their way somewhere else.

Don’t worry about a shot limit killing the vibe. A per-guest photo limit (OncePix lets you set this) actually helps: it makes people pick their shot instead of firing off twenty near-identical ones.

Encourage phones held sideways, not just upright. Landscape photos capture more of the room, the whole table, not just the two people directly in frame. (And if a guest forgets and shoots vertical anyway, the album viewer has a rotate button, so it’s an easy fix either way.)

Reveal the album at the right moment. Right when the event ends works for a wedding reception people want to relive that night. A 24-hour delay works better for something like a trip, where people are still taking photos on the way home.