Why Halloween is the best night for photos
The one night a year everyone dresses up for the camera.
Nobody spends three evenings on a costume to keep it to themselves. Halloween is built for photos: fake blood, fog machines, and the friend who went way too far with the contact lenses.
The problem is where those photos end up. Thirty guests, thirty camera rolls, and the best shot of your costume is on the phone of someone whose name you never caught.
Here's how one night goes when everyone drops their photos in the same place.
8:30 pm
The costumes walk in
A zombie with real latex wounds, a very convincing nun, a witch in a crown of twigs. Everyone wants a photo with everyone. Guests scan the code on the door, and their first shots are in the gallery before they've found a drink.
11:00 pm
The shots you'd never have seen
Out in the garden, by candlelight, someone takes the photo of the night: a witch with a goblet, half lost in the dark. You weren't there. Without a shared album you'd only hear about it. With one, it's in the gallery a minute later.
The morning after
The group photo, from ten angles
Ten people took the big group photo on the steps. In the gallery you get all ten, in full quality. Pick the one where the pumpkin is straight, crown the best costume, and send the album round while everyone still remembers who was under which mask.
