Group grad photos with the whole crew.

Every zone photographs differently.

The campus decides more about your photos than the camera does. Stone or brick behind you, open green or tight architecture, morning shade or evening glow. We shoot the University of Guelph campus in six zones, each with its own personality, its own best spots, and its own note for groups specifically.

Walking time is the part groups underestimate. Six people cross campus about a third slower than one person does, because somebody always stops, and the somebody rotates. Signature fits three zones, and Premium comfortably covers up to six.

Here is each zone, and what it gives a group.

Send the group list, not a shot list.

A shot list tells us what you want. A group list tells us who is actually in the photos, which is the part that decides how the session runs. Most missed group photos are not missed because nobody wanted them. They are missed because nobody said out loud that the four roommates needed their own frame, and by the time someone remembered, two of them had left for dinner.

Send the headcount, the names, and the combinations that must exist. We plan the arrangements around those and catch everything else in between.

Here is the shape of a group session from the camera’s side.

Same campus, four different seasons.

U of G graduates in waves, and the campus is a different backdrop in each one. The season changes the light, the colour, the crowds, and how hard it is to get six people in one city at the same time, which for most groups is the real constraint.

Pick the window that matches your group, then plan the session around what that window does to the campus.

Dress for the frame on your parents’ wall.

These photos have a long life. They go on walls, into family group chats on three continents, onto LinkedIn, and into the “remember this” post ten years from now. Four minutes of outfit planning per person is the cheapest upgrade the whole gallery can get.

The gown does most of the unifying work, which is the quiet advantage group grad photos have: everyone matches from the shoulders down no matter what. What you choose underneath and around it is what separates a clean gallery from a chaotic one.

Two rules cover nearly everything. Solid mid tones beat busy patterns, because tight patterns shimmer on camera. And wear it comfortably, because a group session involves real walking and the person tugging at their collar in frame three is still tugging at it in frame two hundred.

Outdoor sessions are booked backwards from sunset.

Every outdoor grad session is a lighting decision first, because the campus does not have a dimmer switch. The hour you book decides how the limestone looks, where the shadows fall, and whether the cap toss happens against gold sky or grey.

None of the slots below are bad. They are different, and with a group the honest move is to pick the light you want first, then solve the group calendar around it rather than the other way round.

Priced per person, planned per group.

Group packages are for three or more people and are priced per person, so nobody has to be the friend who fronts a lump sum and chases five e-transfers. Two people count as a duo, which has its own pricing on the pricing page.

The two packages are really two route sizes. Pick by how many zones and combinations the group wants, not by the number that sounds cheapest in the chat.

The week before.

Almost everything that goes wrong at a group session was decided the week before it. Twenty minutes of group-chat admin buys you a shoot day where the only job is showing up and enjoying it. Work through the list, tick things off, and take it with you.

One gallery for the whole crew.

After the session, everything is edited and delivered to a single private gallery on our website. One link, one access code, shared with the whole group, so the photos never live on one person’s phone with everyone else asking for exports forever.