Posy

Notes for whoever's hosting.

How to collect the photos everyone else took — at weddings, birthdays, trips and everything in between.

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weddings

What happens to your photos when the venue has no signal

Barns, cellars, marquees and old churches all have one thing in common: no bars. Whether that costs you the photos depends entirely on how the app you picked handles it — and they do not all handle it the same way.

Team Posy3 min read
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weddings

What disposable cameras actually cost at a wedding

Table cameras feel like the cheap option. Once you add developing, a fifteen-table wedding lands somewhere around $450 — and you wait a week for 1-megapixel scans. Here is the full sum, and where the real cameras still win.

Team Posy3 min read
Guests dancing at a wedding reception
weddings

One photographer can't cover a whole wedding

This isn't a criticism of photographers. It's arithmetic. Here's which parts of the day fall outside any one person's reach, and who is already standing there.

Team Posy2 min read
A person in a party hat holding sparklers behind a birthday cake
birthdays parties

Birthday party photos that aren't forty near-identical selfies

Everyone photographs a birthday and nobody ends up with a good set. The problem isn't the phones — it's that nothing tells anyone what's worth shooting.

Team Posy2 min read
Lit birthday candles spelling out a message on a cake in a dark room
birthdays parties

How to get everyone's party photos into one album

The photos exist. They're just scattered across twenty phones, three group chats and a story that expired. Here's how to collect them without nagging anybody.

Team Posy2 min read
View from inside a car on a road trip through forested hills
trips

Group trip photos: one album instead of five camera rolls

Everyone comes home from the same trip with a different version of it. Here's how to end up with one shared record rather than five private ones.

Team Posy2 min read
Friends around a campfire beside their campervans at sunset on a group trip
trips

The end-of-trip photo swap, and why it never happens

Everyone agrees to share their photos on the last night. Almost nobody does. A look at why the swap fails and what to do instead of relying on goodwill.

Team Posy2 min read
People gathered together at a company event in a large hall
corporate

Team offsite photos without a shared drive nobody opens

Every company event produces a folder somebody made and nobody looks at. Here's how to get photos people actually want, from the people who were actually there.

Team Posy2 min read
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corporate

What to do with the photos from the company party

Work parties produce the most photographed and least shared events of the year. The reason is privacy — and it's solvable without giving up the photos.

Team Posy2 min read

Hand every guest a camera at your next event.